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Moby Dick (Official Audio) · Led Zeppelin

EXERCISE 3 OF 64
Groove G -- Part G (a two-bar phrase)
15 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART G, OUTRO 2
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
BREAK 2
PART V
PART AC
PART AH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
18 groovesNAHGATC+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 5
JOIN · 15
LINK · 3
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Moby Dick (Official Audio) on drums

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.

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
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-18, hi-hat through bars 19-22, kick and crashes through bars 23-25, toms through bars 26-34 and snare through bars 35-44, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----x-----x-----------x-----|
Moby Dick (Official Audio) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- N -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, AC -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 12-29 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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