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The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair · Led Zeppelin

EXERCISE 10 OF 34
Groove G
42 / 70 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair on drums

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 3-24, ride through bars 25-27, hi-hat through bars 28-45, ride through bars 46-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-70.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 19 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x--------x--------------x--------x--|
BD |x-----x--------x--------------x--------x--------|
The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 6, 8, 22, 32, 34, 36 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair?

92 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 The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair?

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 6, 8, 22, 32, 34, 36 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED