Drums for "When the Levee Breaks" by Led Zeppelin: Part 2

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Summary: Find out how to play beat one of Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks" on drums in this free cover songs and drum lesson video.

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Drums for "When the Levee Breaks" by Led Zeppelin: Part 2

JOEL SIEGEL: All right. So with that beat, like I said, you have the standard two and four with the snare and the eighths in the hi-hat. Okay? So all the work is down here on the kick drum, all right? And the very first beat--this is actually--you can probably get different answers from different drummers because part of it--part of the sound is how they recorded it and it ends up sounding as this huge reverb sound on the record if you've heard the tune before. But it almost sounds like--I'm pretty sure what he plays is just a single note. But the sound that comes across is--just because of the reverb so I usually play the beat like that with those two notes together, the sixteenth notes. So that first beat, that's what going on. All right? So that's beat one. We have two sixteenths in the kick and a couple of eighths in the hi-hat and that's it, all right? So if--just try playing that and that might take a while because these doubles in the kick can take a while to develop depending on where you are with your playing, all right? So--all right? Break that down and just try playing that with the right hand and the kick drum, and then we'll add in beat two in the next clip.