Over The Hills And Far Away · Led Zeppelin

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 3:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8-9 and 14, and 9 more places -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 91 BPM
OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 13, 21, 27, 29, 31 and 5 more.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 14 sections: 43 keep time, 11 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-72.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART K
PART L
PART E
CHORUS 4
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCEGPK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Over The Hills And Far Away?

91 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 Over The Hills And Far Away hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 Over The Hills And Far Away?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 13, 21, 27, 29, 31 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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