Ramble On · Led Zeppelin

102 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-28, 37-52 and 65-84 -- 62.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 102 BPM
RAMBLE ON · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 64.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 7 sections: 93 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-28.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ramble On?

102 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 Ramble On hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Ramble On?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 64.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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