Travelling Riverside Blues (BBC Sessions) · Led Zeppelin

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 16 and 19, and 8 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
TRAVELLING RIVERSIDE BLUES (BBC SESSIONS) · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 10, 21, 22, 23, 24, 44 and 7 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 21-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 14 sections: 78 keep time, 13 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-57.

PART B
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART N
CHORUS 4
PART C
8 groovesGCBHN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Travelling Riverside Blues (BBC Sessions)?

90 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 Travelling Riverside Blues (BBC Sessions) hard to play on drums?

56 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Travelling Riverside Blues (BBC Sessions)?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 10, 21, 22, 23, 24, 44 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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