No Quarter · Led Zeppelin

111 bars, 7:31, at 59 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
59 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
7:31
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 7 more places -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 59 BPM
NO QUARTER · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 7, 9, 34, 58, 71, 72 and 5 more.

LOOP · 59 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 59 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 59 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
LOOP · 59 BPM
BARS 71-73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 10 sections: 51 keep time, 11 are fills, 1 is a stop and 38 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-111.

CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
PART S5
PART N
PART S7
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBS5ABNS3+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Quarter?

59 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is No Quarter hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 7:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 No Quarter?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 7, 9, 34, 58, 71, 72 and 5 more.

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