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How Many More Times · Led Zeppelin

EXERCISE 8 OF 109
Groove A -- Part A
117 / 280 BARS COVERED
0 / 109 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 26
LAND · 26
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play How Many More Times on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
280
LENGTH
7:43
DIFFICULTY
71/100

ride through bars 1-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-14, ride through bars 15-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-18, ride through bars 19-20 and snare through bars 21-74, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x--------x--------------|
How Many More Times -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 82 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 -- F, M -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BE -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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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