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Houses Of The Holy · Led Zeppelin

EXERCISE 5 OF 18
Join Part C to Chorus (bars 6-8)
105 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGCDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Houses Of The Holy on drums

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

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 3-125.

The beat

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.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-------|x-------x-----x-|
Houses Of The Holy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- G, C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 54-102 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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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