The Ocean
Led Zeppelin · 1973
The main riff drops a beat, teaching how to count and lock an odd-length phrase.
- Artist
- Led Zeppelin
- Year
- 1973
- Genre
- classic rock
- Drummer
- John Bonham
- Tempo
- 78 bpm
- Time
- 4/4
- Feel
- riff-locked groove with odd bar
- Difficulty
- advanced
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
46bpm
Building
62bpm
Target
78bpm
The feel
A riff-locked groove with odd bar in 4/4 around 78 BPM. It's slow — the space between hits is the hard part; keep the pulse dead steady and resist filling gaps.
What to watch
- •Advanced: isolate the single hardest bar and loop it slowly before ever playing along.
How to learn it
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