Moby Dick (Official Audio) · Led Zeppelin

137 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 5:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-44 and 55-59 -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 94 BPM
MOBY DICK (OFFICIAL AUDIO) · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 117, 118, 126, 129, 130, 135 and 2 more.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BARS 117-118 · LANDS ON BAR 119 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 126 · LANDS ON BAR 127
LOOP · 94 BPM
BARS 129-130 · LANDS ON BAR 131 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BARS 135-137 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 20 sections: 89 keep time, 8 are fills, 5 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-46.

PART C
PART G
CHORUS
BREAK 2
PART V
PART AC
PART AH
OUTRO
18 groovesNAHGATC+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Moby Dick (Official Audio)?

94 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 (Official Audio) 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 5:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 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 (Official Audio)?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 117, 118, 126, 129, 130, 135 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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