Hey, Hey, What Can I Do · Led Zeppelin

54 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 2:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
54
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7, 15-18 and 23, and 3 more places -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 76 BPM
HEY, HEY, WHAT CAN I DO · BARS 15-16
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 3, 10, 20, 26, 36, 42 and 1 more.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

54 bars across 9 sections: 34 keep time, 7 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-19.

PART S2
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFGS2S1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hey, Hey, What Can I Do?

76 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Hey, Hey, What Can I Do hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

54 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Hey, Hey, What Can I Do?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 3, 10, 20, 26, 36, 42 and 1 more.

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