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Immigrant Song · Led Zeppelin

EXERCISE 9 OF 14
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 56-58)
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0 / 14 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Immigrant Song on drums

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

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

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
79/100

toms through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-67.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--g----x--g|
BD |x-xx-x--x-xx-x--|
Immigrant Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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