Trampled Under Foot · Led Zeppelin

199 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 6:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
6:50
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 83% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 10-17 and 19-26, and 14 more places -- 82.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 116 BPM
TRAMPLED UNDER FOOT · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 60, 88, 150 and 178.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

199 bars across 2 sections: 185 keep time, 4 are fills, 9 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-148.

OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Trampled Under Foot?

116 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 Trampled Under Foot hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 6:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Trampled Under Foot?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 60, 88, 150 and 178.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED
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