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Summary: Led Zeppelin's "The Immigrant Song" on drums is a great song for practicing your drumming technique and bass drum control. Learn more in this free cover songs and drum lesson on video.
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JOEL SIEGEL: All right. Here's another great Bonham beat from the "Immigrant Song". This is Led Zeppelin--this is a great beat like, for exercise really. It's a cool beat to know and play in the context of music but it also will really help work your doubles and your kick. So, if you're kinda like me, like growing up and learning how to play drums, I didn't like to play exercises that much 'cause it was kinda boring. I like to just learn tunes and beats and just play those like, with the recording and that's kinda how I figured out what I needed to learn and stuff like that. So, if--instead of sitting there and sitting around and just doing exercises, you want to play a tune, you can kinda find tunes that work certain aspects. And so, this is the perfect one to work in getting like, controlled double sixteenths on your kick drum, okay? So, we'll talk about that. That's really--again, the main feature of this beat is what's happening in the kick drum 'cause as far as mechanically and your two hands and your left foot, it's going to be the same; it's just the eighth notes and two and four. So, check out these next few clips and we'll talk about what's going on in the right foot.