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Travelling Riverside Blues (BBC Sessions) · Led Zeppelin

EXERCISE 5 OF 47
Groove E -- Outro
53 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART N
CHORUS 4
PART C
OUTRO
8 groovesGCBHN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Travelling Riverside Blues (BBC Sessions) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-6 and hi-hat through bars 7-117.

The beat

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.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |-------------x--|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x----x--|
Travelling Riverside Blues (BBC Sessions) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- G, B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-27 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 20-59 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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