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The Rover · Led Zeppelin

EXERCISE 1 OF 57
Groove J -- Chorus
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0 / 57 PASSED · 41 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Rover on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-67, ride through bars 68-83 and hi-hat through bars 84-144.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
HF |x---------------|
The Rover -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- J, L -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-11 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-46 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-57 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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