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Since I've Been Loving You · Led Zeppelin

EXERCISE 11 OF 39
Groove I -- Part I (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 39 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, CHORUS, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Since I've Been Loving You on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
5:56
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 2-10, ride through bars 11-13, hi-hat through bars 14-22, ride through bars 23-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33 and ride through bars 34-37, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----g-----------------x-----g-----|
BD |x-------x-----------x---x-------x-x---------x---|
Since I've Been Loving You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-22 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Bars 8-25 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part I and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED