Whole Lotta Love · Led Zeppelin

126 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 18 and 76-78, and 9 more places -- 18.7% 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
WHOLE LOTTA LOVE · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 13, 69, 75, 79, 81, 83 and 6 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 14 sections: 81 keep time, 12 are fills, 2 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-54.

COUNT-IN
PART F
PART K
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesCKFS1AS+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Whole Lotta Love?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Whole Lotta Love hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Whole Lotta Love?

10 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 13, 69, 75, 79, 81, 83 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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