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When The Levee Breaks · Led Zeppelin

EXERCISE 3 OF 41
Groove B
75 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesACJS6S7+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play When The Levee Breaks on drums

126 bars, 7:06, at 71 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
71 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
7:06
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-43, silence through bars 44-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-126.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-19, 26-38 and 56-68, and 5 more places -- 61.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--xg----|
When The Levee Breaks -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 20, 22, 39, 41, 51, 53 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 1-97 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-25 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 42-48 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-99 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is When The Levee Breaks?

71 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is When The Levee Breaks hard to play on drums?

58 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 7:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 When The Levee Breaks?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 20, 22, 39, 41, 51, 53 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED