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The Lemon Song · Led Zeppelin

EXERCISE 18 OF 97
Run D2 · Part D (bars 4-20)
63 / 163 BARS COVERED
0 / 97 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 4
JOIN · 17
LINK · 5
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Lemon Song on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
7:25
DIFFICULTY
76/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-32, snare through bars 33-68, hi-hat through bars 69-139 and snare through bars 140-163.

The beat

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.

    34
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
HF |----x-x-----x-----x---x-----x---|
The Lemon Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 75 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 -- Y -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V, N -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part D and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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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