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Over The Hills And Far Away · Led Zeppelin

EXERCISE 3 OF 35
Groove P -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Over The Hills And Far Away on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-73.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xx-----x-x-x--|
Over The Hills And Far Away -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- C, E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 7-14 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-36 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-73 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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