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Drums for "When the Levee Breaks" by Led Zeppelin: Part 4

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Summary: Lead into beat three of Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks" on drums with an anticipation note. Learn how, plus find out how to play beat 3 of this song, in this free cover songs and drum lesson video.

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Drums for "When the Levee Breaks" by Led Zeppelin: Part 4

JOEL SIEGEL: All right. So we got our first two beats, beats one and two, of this--"When the Levee Breaks" beat. What happens on beat three is you actually have what you call, like, an anticipation note and if you've--if you're fluent with the vocabulary, it's going to be on the notes--the hit is going to be on the uh of two, okay? If you don't know the vocabulary then that just sounds stupid. What that means is when you're counting sixteenth notes, you count--one way of counting it is one-e-and-uh, two-e-and-uh, all right? So you have four notes in the beat. One-e-and-uh, one-e-and-uh, okay? So the uh of two means two-e-and-uh. So it's that last sixteenth note that still kinda fits in the parenthesis of that beat two, right? So here's--I'll play it and you'll hear what I'm talking about. This is beats--all of beats one and two including that anticipation of beat three. Okay? You see how that's like it's going right in--it's just anticipating beat three. It's going right into beat three. Three, right? Okay? And then--so that's kinda--with beat three 'cause the conception is kinda where it falls, but the rest of beat three is going to be similar and instead of just the uh, it's going to be actually and-uh of beat three which are--instead of the last one sixteenth note, it's the last two sixteenth notes of beat three, okay? So, three-e-and-uh, okay? So listen to it and you should hear it. All right? So just playing the beat--well, I'll just play the whole beat again. Okay? So this is where a lot of coordination comes into play because with the sixteenth notes, your right hand is doing--and your right foot are doing something that aren't really necessarily in time together. I mean, they're in time together but they're not playing at the same time, all right? So keep watching the next clip. We'll kinda break that down a little further.

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