When The Levee Breaks Drums tab video
Led Zepplin
Make your own When The Levee Breaks tab video, freeNo editing. No card. 10 minutes free.- Instrument
- Drums
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Tuning
- —
- Tempo
- 69 BPM
About this riff
The groove is a slow, swampy 4/4 pattern where the real challenge isn't complexity but feel: leading with the kick, letting the snare fall with a deliberate laid-back hesitation behind the beat, and keeping the swung hi-hat accents consistent at this dragging tempo. Playing it convincingly means holding back and locking into that heavy pocket rather than rushing, which is deceptively hard for a beat with so few notes. The end vamp is where it opens up, with rolling kick triplets and tom fills responding to the vocal.
Did you know?
Bonham's drums were set up at the bottom of the three-story stairwell at Headley Grange, with engineer Andy Johns hanging a stereo pair of Beyerdynamic M160 ribbon mics near the top of the stairs as the only mics on the kit. The signal was compressed through a Helios console and run through a Binson Echorec unit to create the huge, muffled ambience. Because that stairwell sound couldn't be reproduced live, the band played the song on stage only twice, both during their 1975 tour era.
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