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Sick Again · Led Zeppelin

EXERCISE 4 OF 35
Groove C -- Part C (a two-bar phrase)
59 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART B
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART P
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFPBAHC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sick Again on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-7, hi-hat through bars 8-9, ride through bars 10-11, hi-hat through bars 12-13 and ride through bars 14-15, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----x---|
BD |--x-x---x-x---x-|
Sick Again -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- B, P -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 18-36 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 28-34 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part P -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED