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The Wanton Song · Led Zeppelin

EXERCISE 22 OF 62
Groove H -- Part H
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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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Wanton Song on drums

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

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-102 and snare through bars 103-110.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- A, O -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-74 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 10-87 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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