Since I've Been Loving You · Led Zeppelin

80 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 74 BPM, 5:56 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
5:56
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 6-7 and 14, and 2 more places -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 74 BPM
SINCE I'VE BEEN LOVING YOU · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 11, 21, 25, 33, 37, 41 and 3 more.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 8 sections: 36 keep time, 9 are fills and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

PART C
PART I
PART D
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesS8EFCW+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Since I've Been Loving You?

74 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Since I've Been Loving You hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 5:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Since I've Been Loving You?

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 11, 21, 25, 33, 37, 41 and 3 more.

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