Stairway To Heaven (Led Zeppelin) · AA

82 bars, 4:33, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 6-7 and 23-24, and 5 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 72 BPM
STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN (LED ZEPPELIN) · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 16, 17, 18, 25, 26 and 18 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 16-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 25-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 10 sections: 41 keep time, 24 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-67.

PART C
PART D
PART J
PART C
PART T
CHORUS
OUTRO
8 groovesLCZJT+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stairway To Heaven (Led Zeppelin)?

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

Is Stairway To Heaven (Led Zeppelin) hard to play on drums?

62 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Stairway To Heaven (Led Zeppelin)?

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 16, 17, 18, 25, 26 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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