Thank You · Led Zeppelin

58 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 2:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 18 and 22, and 3 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
THANK YOU · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 8, 17, 19, 21, 23 and 14 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars across 9 sections: 12 keep time, 20 are fills, 2 are stops and 19 are silent.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART S6
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCS8JS3S6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thank You?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Thank You hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Thank You?

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 8, 17, 19, 21, 23 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 58 BARS ANALYSED
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