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Ten Years Gone · Led Zeppelin

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove V -- Chorus
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0 / 33 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ten Years Gone on drums

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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, silence through bars 14-24, ride through bars 25-39, hi-hat through bars 40-47 and ride through bars 48-67, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    53
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------------x-|
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Ten Years Gone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- V -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, H -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-25 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-43 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-48 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and the Break 3 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED