The Song Remains The Same · Led Zeppelin

194 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 5:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15, 17 and 19, and 11 more places -- 54.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 144 BPM
THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 65, 67, 68, 81, 103, 135 and 5 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 67-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 103 · LANDS ON BAR 104 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 135-136 · LANDS ON BAR 137 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

194 bars across 12 sections: 157 keep time, 11 are fills and 14 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-49.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART V
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBJDVA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Song Remains The Same?

144 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 Song Remains The Same hard to play on drums?

63 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Song Remains The Same?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 65, 67, 68, 81, 103, 135 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 194 BARS ANALYSED
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