Out On The Tiles · Led Zeppelin

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 63, 65 and 67, and 14 more places -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 97 BPM
OUT ON THE TILES · BAR 65
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 64, 66, 70, 72, 74, 78 and 6 more.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 6 sections: 75 keep time and 12 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-25.

CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCOLKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Out On The Tiles?

97 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 Out On The Tiles hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 12 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Out On The Tiles?

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 64, 66, 70, 72, 74, 78 and 6 more.

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