The Immigrant Song · Led Zeppelin

67 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-24, 26-46 and 48-54, and 2 more places -- 80.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 112 BPM
THE IMMIGRANT SONG · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 25, 47 and 67.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 3 sections: 62 keep time, 3 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-24.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Immigrant Song?

112 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 The Immigrant Song hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 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 The Immigrant Song?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 25, 47 and 67.

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