In My Time Of Dying · Led Zeppelin

264 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 12:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
264
LENGTH
12:37
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 117-131, 159-160 and 162-171 -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 84 BPM
IN MY TIME OF DYING · BAR 118
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 91, 93, 99 and 15 more.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 18-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 101 · LANDS ON BAR 102

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

264 bars across 25 sections: 159 keep time, 23 are fills and 64 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 226-244.

BREAK 2
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
PART AF
PART F
17 groovesHTFAFA+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In My Time Of Dying?

84 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 In My Time Of Dying hard to play on drums?

66 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?

264 bars, about 12:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 In My Time Of Dying?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 91, 93, 99 and 15 more.

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