The Lemon Song · Led Zeppelin

163 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 7:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
7:25
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-35, 42-43 and 46-47, and 4 more places -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 88 BPM
THE LEMON SONG · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 4, 16, 18, 24, 26, 32 and 36 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 20 sections: 92 keep time, 42 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-89.

PART D
PART Q
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AJ
PART N
14 groovesYDNABAJ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Lemon Song?

88 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 Lemon Song hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 7:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Lemon Song?

21 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 4, 16, 18, 24, 26, 32 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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