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Led Zeppelin - Starway to Heaven (Cover) · Unknown

EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove D -- Part D
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PART H
PART D
PART U
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesRHDAAU+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Led Zeppelin - Starway to Heaven (Cover) on drums

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 4:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-14, ride through bars 15-22, hi-hat through bars 23-32, toms through bars 33-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-73, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 10-11 and 27-28, and 5 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----X--g----X---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Led Zeppelin - Starway to Heaven (Cover) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 20, 21, 22, 29, 30 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- D, E (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-53 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Break 2 and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Led Zeppelin - Starway to Heaven (Cover)?

76 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 Led Zeppelin - Starway to Heaven (Cover) hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 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 Led Zeppelin - Starway to Heaven (Cover)?

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 20, 21, 22, 29, 30 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED