No Quarter (TSRTS) · Led Zeppelin

274 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 9:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
274
LENGTH
9:58
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66-80, 120-124 and 126, and 7 more places -- 26.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
NO QUARTER (TSRTS) · BAR 120
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 5, 9, 11, 12, 13, 25 and 34 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 11-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

274 bars across 26 sections: 108 keep time, 40 are fills, 22 are stops and 82 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-80.

PART S5
CHORUS
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
BREAK 3
OUTRO
17 groovesPS8CRS5+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Quarter (TSRTS)?

110 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 No Quarter (TSRTS) hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

274 bars, about 9:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 (TSRTS)?

16 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 5, 9, 11, 12, 13, 25 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 274 BARS ANALYSED
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