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No Quarter (TSRTS) · Led Zeppelin

EXERCISE 5 OF 92
Groove Q -- Part Q
73 / 274 BARS COVERED
0 / 92 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 4
PART S5
CHORUS
BREAK 2
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 4
PART Q
BREAK 3
OUTRO
17 groovesPS8CRS5+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 20
LINK · 6
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Quarter (TSRTS) on drums

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.

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
274
LENGTH
9:58
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-11, snare through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-30, silence through bars 31-55 and ride through bars 56-61, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    120
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
No Quarter (TSRTS) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 75 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 -- P, R -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Break and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 20-57 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-81 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 134-148 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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