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The Song Remains The Same · Led Zeppelin

EXERCISE 6 OF 42
Groove C
127 / 194 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Song Remains The Same on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
63/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-51, kick and crashes through bars 52-53, ride through bars 54-65, hi-hat through bars 66-69 and ride through bars 70-81, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-60 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 78-104 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 125-142 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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