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You Shook Me · Led Zeppelin

EXERCISE 10 OF 25
Join Chorus to Part D (bars 36-38)
50 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART D
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesCS5DS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play You Shook Me on drums

89 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 81 BPM, 6:33 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
6:33
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 3-60 and silence through bars 61-89.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-37 and 55-56 -- 62.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    4
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......
HH |x-------x---x-------x---x-------x---x-------x---|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-------x-----------x---x-------x-----------x---|
You Shook Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 2, 39, 41, 45, 46, 47 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through Part D -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is You Shook Me?

81 BPM, in 6/4, 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 You Shook Me hard to play on drums?

48 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 6:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in You Shook Me?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 2, 39, 41, 45, 46, 47 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED