Sick Again · Led Zeppelin

133 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 4:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-9, 12-13 and 16-17, and 8 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 116 BPM
SICK AGAIN · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 14 sections: 109 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-133.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART P
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFPBAHC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sick Again?

116 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 Sick Again hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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