Immigrant Song · Led Zeppelin

67 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 2:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-24, 26-46 and 48-54, and 2 more places -- 79.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 113 BPM
IMMIGRANT SONG · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 25, 47 and 67.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 67
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 2 sections: 61 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-24.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Immigrant Song?

113 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 Immigrant Song hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Immigrant Song?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 25, 47 and 67.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED
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