Ten Years Gone · Led Zeppelin

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 5:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-50, 53-54 and 58, and 14 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 76 BPM
TEN YEARS GONE · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 28, 32, 35, 36, 39, 42 and 3 more.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 10 sections: 61 keep time, 9 are fills and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-101.

PART D
BREAK 2
PART H
PART K
CHORUS
BREAK 3
OUTRO
9 groovesVHS4S9D+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ten Years Gone?

76 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 Ten Years Gone hard to play on drums?

56 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 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 Ten Years Gone?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 28, 32, 35, 36, 39, 42 and 3 more.

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