How Many More Times · Led Zeppelin

280 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 7:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
280
LENGTH
7:43
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 29-37, and 16 more places -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
HOW MANY MORE TIMES · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 38, 54, 58 and 34 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

280 bars across 14 sections: 167 keep time, 40 are fills, 52 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 134-161.

PART A
CHORUS
PART AK
PART BE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesFAKBEABM+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is How Many More Times?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 How Many More Times hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

280 bars, about 7:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 82 exercises over 25 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in How Many More Times?

26 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 38, 54, 58 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 280 BARS ANALYSED
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