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Misty Mountain Hop · Led Zeppelin

EXERCISE 26 OF 45
Join Chorus 4 to Part G (bars 94-96)
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0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 4, PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART G
CHORUS 5
PART G
OUTRO
4 groovesDGES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Misty Mountain Hop on drums

155 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-27, snare through bars 28-29, hi-hat through bars 30-55, snare through bars 56-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-83, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 11-12, and 41 more places -- 37.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 29, 33, 53, 57, 61 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-54 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 52-94 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 94-130 -- 9 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 131-145 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Misty Mountain Hop?

132 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 Misty Mountain Hop hard to play on drums?

54 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?

155 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Misty Mountain Hop?

13 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 29, 33, 53, 57, 61 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED