How To Play Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" On The Drums
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In this video, Mike Michalkow shows you how to play "Immigrant Song" from the band Led Zeppelin. The beat was originally played by John Bonham, one of the most iconic drummers ever. Enjoy!
I’ve been playing drums for 6 months, I decided to try learning this song a while ago and I’ve come close to giving up a few times but I’m finally *really* close to getting it, and it all started with this video
Good for you. Do you want an award for that? 👏
@@damone70 what a shit response to a beginner drummer
@@damone70 wtf you grumpy drummer who couldn’t play it
@Little Shrimp Lol... look who got triggered? Defending some commentor's honor.
@@damone70they should get one yes
finally an accurate transcribe. Everybody plays the ghost notes on kick and they are NOT done on kick. nice job.
me too, i just thought the ghost note is done on kick, that's why i am thinking to myself there is no way i can ever learn to play this song. Now, this video gave me hope :-)
The Warrior Song Project that beat was played in “in my time of dying” where all of it was on the kick. Bonham did this everywhere an many songs.
“In my time of dying” is one hell of a kick drum work out.
And like I said, Bonzo did this on many tunes.
Also on the studio version of this song, the ghost notes were also played on the hi hat.
I always thought it was a snare and high hat together. Some times it sounds like it.
I always played a kick drum instead of the snare ghost note as I thought it was what was there…. I sometimes used a double bass paddles to allow me to get that note in …. So glad I watched this …. Playing it like a beast now 💪
"THE RIGHT FOOT IS COOKIN"
Quiet, clown 🤡.
Yes it is..need a break after playing the song for a little over two minutes
If you have a double bass pedal I recommend playing with your left foot only too to build up strength and endurance plus left foot independence as well to bring it on par with the right.
that's a really good idea for building some left foot endurance and speed! Thanks probably wouldn't have thought of that myself. :)
that's what I started doing 3 years ago doubles singles 6 stroke rolls the paradiddle all on my feet but now I'm more into my hi hats now. still got double pedals butt unhook the left one. starting learning cool barks um I use hats in a lot of fills now. but now then I hook the petal back on. I use the slide on my kick drum. I Luke walk this way I would play with my left foot. thank again guys. drumeo. I'm with mike Johnston as of now playing drums are the best
As long as you can do it on the right first
I was interpreting the pattern differently I put a kick in were Mike has added the ghost notes are added and shuffle tge hi hats hard ro explain it might pop it onto you tube some time who knows . Thanks for vid Mike it's great .
Sorry this comment was supposed to be on the main thread apologies
I really do like these video lessons because they are very well made, taking the rhythm apart into simpler parts and them combining them to make the whole thing. They really help me a lot when trying to learn a particular song, not to mention that metronome thingy at the bottom. Not to mention the fact that they're free! Awesome, Drumeo, thank you!
Nice job. You are a great watch for tutorials, very clear and descriptive. Yes it's workout on the kick. I think there's more ghost notes, though. on the E of 1 and the E of 3. Gives you that missing feel of JB.
Awesome!! Great teaching really well explained and broken down! Loved it!
OMG!!! Finally, i found someone that i understand better how to play this on drums. i only learned how to play drums by ear and don't understand musical terminologies (8 notes 16 notes, etc.). i did NOT even pay attention to the tabs because i'm too old to remember those numbers (i am 55 yrs old, started playing drums at 51). Thank you soooooo much for this precious video.
Very nice tutorial. Great examples, very clean and clear. Good pacing. Loved the 'follow the bouncing ball' with the sheet music. (Everything old is new again!!)
thanks for teaching me hold my sticks. the right way hell I been playing since I was 12 I'm 34 so it took me a month to learn it and now my wrist don't hurt at all... its been 4 years now playing the right way. ty mike
If you want help, go to Yoyoka drum lessons here on youtube. ( as long as you don't mind being schooled by a kid prodigy.
Iv been wanting to learn this one, I play along with the song but I always had the bass drum wrong, I can use this in SO many songs!
Great video Drumeo, I have always believed that the ghost stroke on the ah of 4 is on the high hat, of coarse either works.
am i the only one who struggles to not hit the hi hat and the same time as the kick drum it is really frustrating haha
Me too, my stubborn foot seem to always wanna get ahead of my hand. Its hard to keep my foot under control lol
That goes away with practice man! Everyone gets that at some point haha!
try doing some independence practice ! it really helps
Hahahaha I'm also having a hard time not hitting them at the same time
Nope you are not alone
I subscribe with a minute a half of this guy talking. He puts me at instant ease.
Awesome break down. Great song to learn.
The hi-high is doing more than “straight-ahead 8th notes”. It’s almost like a shuffle on the HH.
LOVE this lesson....Awesome!!!!...thanks Mike
Thanks for the lesson Mike. Thumbs up
You should teach how to play Good times bad times
Thanks man! Great details!
Love this! Thanks for all the awesome videos Drumeo :) Can anyone tell me what kind of snare drum that is? Really like the sound of it
Thank you sooooo much for your video. I love led zeppelin and love the immigrant song 😍😍😍 I will try.
So helpful! Thanks
Great lesson
that was amazing thxs so much
Awesome thanks my friend
Great explanation !!! Thanks !!!
GREAT tutorial!!!!!!
Now that ive mastered this, its my new go to flex beat for people who dont play drums
thank you so much mike..
Gregg Bissonnette said in a master class with Chad Smith was' If you can say it, you can play it'....
On the remastered version I can here that ghost note he plays on snare is on the high hat.
Outstanding
Sensacional. Parabéns! (PT BR)
Awesome. Congratulations! (EN)
Great tutorial! I would propose the same for aces high by iron maiden
thank you very much man!
THANK YOU!!!
Cool merci pour la partition.
awesome!!!!
Best tutorial but no dynamics on the playing but I guess the goal is to show the correct beat and hits.Great job👍👍👍👍👍👍
You're so awesome! Love your lessons especially when its classic rock like Led Zeppelin! T from #musicmansladies
I miss this Drumeo teacher! Since Freedrumlessons days!
That is a great lesson. I do have one question (I know this upload is from 2014, so . . . perhaps not many are "here" anymore). I digitally isolated the drums from the original dong recording and it sounds to me like the hi-hats are not straight 8th notes). It's hard to hear exactly, but it doesn't quite seem like that. Does anyone else hear that? Now, the straight 8th notes works just fine, so this more for curiosity sake. And maybe my ears are wrong.
I've noticed that too. Doesn't sound like straight 8th notes on the hi-hat, it's more tricky.
I heard that too and came here to see if it’s shown. Now I’m thinking the ghost note on the snare is that extra bit
You are correct. On original I clearly hear high hat is 8th plus two 16ths (1 & ah 2 & ah etc). Straight 8ths easier for beginners to get started. The "1 & ah" i right hand is an important ostinato one should get down and what I hear on original. Another important sticking one could have fun with on this is the RLRR-LRRL (put rights on high hat, L on snare) - but that's not orginal either.
The ghost notes are doing all the heavy lifting.
Very nice
Very helpful, I learned to play this in just an hour! Thank you!
Alexandra Strofylla Post your video. Let's see it.
What bass pedal beater do you use? I really like the tone and attack it produces!! Cheers
Listen to RUclips link :
LED ZEPPELIN /IMMIGRANT SONG- (BACKING TRACK -DRUM & BASS-) Por Julian Cordido
It helps... John Bonham does not always play the ghost on snare but sometime on bass drum too (the 2 "e" of beat 2 and four...)
Need to transcribe that part !!
If the ghost note...is it played on hat, kick or snare issue is simple to resolve. Play it using all three. Subtraction drumming. That’s my system by the way...no stealing it. Simples.
10 !!!
My ankle hurt man !!! How can i keep play this !!
I swear to the Gods of drumming there is more to the Hi-Hat than quarter notes.
There is a missing hi hat on the bass hit before the beat and on the ghost note. I know it is not steady. I am beginner, so I am not sure.
Listen to the isolated drum track on that song. I swear he changes the beat at least 2 times in the middle of the song... You barely notice it but it's def different
Just listened to all the Live versions of this on youtube. There's no trace of any Ghost snare in Bonham's playing, I think on the original recording it's hit hat, I don't think it's a straight 8 beats per bar.
bud good job mike
Just a thought the drums from Heart Barracuda and the drum beat from the Immigrant song seems to be a bit similar. Let me know. Was racking my brain on it.
Holy shit my guy you're playing that to a click track!!!! Amazing
I really hear a shuffle played on the Hi-hat; am I the only person in the world that hears that?
👌👌👌
Just like . . . pretty much everything . . . back in school, I just can not conceive why people need things explained to them at all, let alone slowly and repetitively. And now I'm sure that, just like everything in school, now most everyone is still confounded and inept afterwards regardless of the coddling.
cool cool cool cool
listen Pangeran Cinta
Good lesson. Although he plays a few triplets on the hit hats that Everyone misses out. 👍
Agree - but i don't think it's 16ths on the upbeat (1 & ah 2 & ah) rather than triplets IMO....
I like lifting my hats on the qt notes
There's definitely a little more going on with the hi-hat than just straight qtrs. I'm not much into explaining beats, but it sounds like the hats are... 3, 123, 123, 123, 123 etc.... I adjusted the EQ to only the hi-end
I didn’t know it was that simple 😂😂
This new series is really good, but I'd appreciate some harder grooves, intermediate and advanced level :)
what is a ghost note??
you left out how he cues the ending with a crash cymbal.
I’ve always heard triplets on the hi-hat, or is that just me?
I think Bonham goes 3:21 bass-bass , bass bass , snare base, base-bass , bass , bass snare bass, yes ? Mike may be leaving out the bass-bass at the start of the bar...??
just listen to it and play along and get a feeling for it instead of watching this
Wrong! Actually there is 1st part paradiddle between bass drum and snare. By the way Thomas Lang told about this fact in Drumeo ^)
I saw Thomas Lang talk about it, but I can't hear a paradiddle there. IMHO it's specially clear that it's not a paradiddle when at the end of beats 2 and 4 there's only 1 left hand note (not 2), so no paradiddle.
This tutorial may be missing a ghost note right after the bass note on beats 1 and 3, not sure.
Sketchers?
It’s actually para diddle‘s with accents . With feel ✌️😎
So much for that I can't get rid of amp
3:37 your welcome
It's impossible for me to play the bass drum in between the hi-hat :(
Not anymore!
+Hampurilias :D goes to show that practice makes perfection
Same
Im ur biggest fan p,ease say hi ill be so happy
I can do this right away on the first try...also with my left foot alone...I guess that means 70's rock is my calling? :-)
craig gass ?
Immigrant song the hi hat is played &a1 &a2 &a3 &a4 &a break it down with all that boss equipment you have
Thor
If I’m not mistaken Bonham played triplets on the hat
He played an 8th plus two 16ths (1 & ah 2 & ah....)
it's actually a paradiddle diddle
Fuck I'm stuck on hihat and bass drum independence
Good "TUTORIAL” XD
Over a god damn minute before he makes any music...
What the Fook is a ghost note?
that's a beat we all kno
I'm a little baffled as to why the kick was so inconsistent and sloppy when played at full speed. Seems like finesse and dynamics are almost entirely missing from modern drummers.
This is not accurate.. only 4 kick hits, the rest are snare/ghost notes..
or how not to play it LOL
@ zagyex this IS how it's played..... if you play it different good on you but this is the right way to play it. Hell I would say it's one of the easier Zep songs to play, but I will say what is easy for one drummer is not always easy to learn for another. What brings it together is the "ghost" note's. Though I play that ghost note just barely softer than the other snare note.... meaning the one note I whack the shit out of,,,,, the "ghost" note I just whack....lol....peace
I really hate to be a killjoy, and I think you are a superb drummer, but I don't think your interpretation of the beat is correct. I hear the hi hat repeating this pattern: eighth note, followed by two sixteenth notes--kind of a galloping feel--rather than a ghost note on the snare. It seems to be clearer on the remastered version. I have a feeling I'm now going to be deluged with sentiments of abject hatred, God help me.
Stop burying the beater!!
I really don't appreciate these particular groove guides.
If you want to cover grooves, at least make it a talk about concepts used in them, not exactly the examples. It's not too useful this way in my opinion.
1. it's a free lesson, made by professional for everybody to understand, you better appreciate it
2. nobody gives two shits about your opinion
3. move along
Ivan Knježević Wow, you tl;dr me when you're making making statements just as long. And no, thats a terrible attitude. At some point you wouldn't have been able to grasp these concepts but you built up to it, as these people are trying to. No one's bad, were just at different stages. PS. They're not saying make the video longer, they're suggesting a different way to convey ideas.
Everybody just chill out... If you don't like this lesson that's totally cool. There will be lots more coming and there are more than 500 previous lessons. So just chill out and move on or "stick" around here and rock out :) - Jared
Ivan Knježević Drumeo Agree, why even bother discuss about this, if you don't appreaciate the content or the comments feedback, just get out of here
Ivan Knježević Ok, i kind of get that. I mean, I've built myself up too and I've also seen people think that the heads and sticks (or whatever) are going to make you instantly better (and to be fair they do motivate you to play them more) but you're being totally unfair man! You CAN learn to feel - just play with bands and find your thing. you might not be able to get it as fast as others, but it can be done. Technique helps with this.
Ghost note is on the hi-hat. Extremely poor to get that wrong. Dear oh dear.
+paolobhoy only in concert, the album version is 100% on the snare. Open the song in an audio editor and slow it way down you can hear it on ZIII. ;)
Good video but WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU WEARING SKETCHERS
that bass drums sounds WAY too weak, john's bass sounded strong as hell
Exactly, the playing is fan-frickin'-tastic.
But the sound of the kick...ugh
The drum kit sounds terrible.