The Rover · Led Zeppelin

144 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 5:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-17, 31-36 and 50-55, and 13 more places -- 28.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 103 BPM
THE ROVER · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 more.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 13 sections: 108 keep time and 18 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-143.

CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART X
PART AC
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJXACTM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Rover?

103 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 Rover hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Rover?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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