Houses Of The Holy · Led Zeppelin

125 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-15, 26-31 and 43-48, and 3 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HOUSES OF THE HOLY · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 8 sections: 113 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-49.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGCDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Houses Of The Holy?

120 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 Houses Of The Holy hard to play on drums?

58 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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