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Whole Lotta Love · Led Zeppelin

EXERCISE 25 OF 53
Groove V -- Part V
70 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V
COUNT-IN
PART F
PART K
PART V
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesCKFS1AS+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Whole Lotta Love on drums

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.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-30, kick and crashes through bars 31-32, ride through bars 33-48, snare through bars 49-56 and ride through bars 57-64, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    14
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------x-----X-----x-----x-----x-----x-----X-----|
SD |---g--------X--g-----------g--------------X--g--|
BD |x-----x--x-----------x--x-----x--x-----x--------|
Whole Lotta Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-88 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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