Tangerine · Led Zeppelin

50 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
50
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-12, 23-25 and 32-37, and 1 more place -- 52.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
TANGERINE · BAR 8
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 29 and 49.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

50 bars across 8 sections: 28 keep time, 3 are fills, 2 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-14.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
BREAK 2
OUTRO
5 groovesCS3BS1S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tangerine?

90 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 Tangerine hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

50 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Tangerine?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 29 and 49.

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