The Wanton Song · Led Zeppelin

110 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 5 and 7, and 12 more places -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 111 BPM
THE WANTON SONG · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 6, 8, 9, 11, 17, 18 and 19 more.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 11 sections: 68 keep time, 25 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-55.

CHORUS
PART H
PART M
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART M
PART O
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAHUOM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Wanton Song?

111 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 Wanton Song hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Wanton Song?

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 6, 8, 9, 11, 17, 18 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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