Moby Dick (Live At The Albert Hall) · Led Zeppelin

570 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 23:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
570
LENGTH
23:58
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5 and 79, and 38 more places -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
MOBY DICK (LIVE AT THE ALBERT HALL) · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 89 times: bars 7, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 83 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 21-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 54-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

570 bars across 56 sections: 335 keep time, 91 are fills, 37 are stops and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 170-190.

CHORUS 3
36 groovesAAZS56AGI+31Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Moby Dick (Live At The Albert Hall)?

100 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 Moby Dick (Live At The Albert Hall) hard to play on drums?

45 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

570 bars, about 23:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 172 exercises over 45 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 Moby Dick (Live At The Albert Hall)?

26 fills to learn, played 89 times: bars 7, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 83 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 570 BARS ANALYSED
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