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No Quarter · Led Zeppelin

EXERCISE 12 OF 39
Groove K
38 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
PART S5
PART N
PART S7
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBS5ABNS3+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Quarter on drums

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.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
59 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
7:31
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-18, silence through bars 19-30, ride through bars 31-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-43, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--g-----x-----------x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-------x---x-------x-----|
No Quarter -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 7, 9, 34, 58, 71, 72 and 5 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part S3 -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S5 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part S5 and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part N -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED