How to Play Led Zeppelin "Stairway to Heaven" Drums

In this video drum lesson, we teach you how to play Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" on your drum set by breaking it down so it is easy to understand.
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"Stairway to Heaven" Drum Lesson Breakdown - Time Stamps Included
0:45 - We start off this week's drum lesson by going over what we'll be covering in "Stairway to Heaven"
1:30 - We start by breaking down the first drum beat in parts
2:42 - In this lesson, we'll go over what polyrhythm is and how Led Zeppelin used the drum beat to create the polyrhythm section
5:47 - Now we go into the next drum beat section and go over ghost notes which we have covered in other video lessons
9:06 - Now we get into some fun drum beat parts
12:11 - Lastly, it wouldn't be a great song to learn on the drums without an awesome drum FILL!!
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[@valhallatextiles8823]

LOVE this! Your videos have taught me so much. But my classes with you teach me even more. Super cool! I'll put this on my list for when I'm done with our current lesson!

[@E7MusicSchool]

Hey Alicia! Sounds good this song rocks!

[@hamsandwichbandit8525]

can’t wait to play this at the music store

[@RafaelGuerreroThe4th]

Wow this is the kind of lesson i like....

[@E7MusicSchool]

Awesome glad its helping you!

[@ngocvychibi]

Hello, I really love your tutorial. Would you please instruct us how to play "Payphone"? Thank youuuuu 😍

[@silverdrumvideo]

Holy tom angles, Batman!

[@E7MusicSchool]

lol!

[@carsongoolsby963]

Can you do about a girl by Nirvana

[@patmcmahon482]

The part I have the most trouble is after the triplet fill. The part where the lyrics start.

[@E7MusicSchool]

Feel free to email me at [e-mail] ... I'd love to help!

[@brillanabravo8188]

Can you please do the song harder to breathe by maroon 5, the begining is bad asss

[@steveferraro3357]

Regarding the "big fill" in the guitar solo: I've seen people teaching this lately with only a single bass drum stroke after the floor tom and this is just plain wrong (IMO). It is NOT a herta pattern, it is more like a 4-stroke ruff (snare-tom-floor-bass) followed by an extra grace note on the bass drum after each ruff. There are definitely two bass drum notes played there. You can hear this clearly in the Zeppelin song Night Flight, where Bonham plays the exact same fill as in Stairway but the two bass drum strokes are more clearly audible. It's harder to hear on Stairway, but it's definitely there. You can listen to the alternate Sunset Sound mix on the 2014 remaster of the album and here it more clearly as well. Also, the more recent "official" drum transcriptions by both Joe Bergamini ("Drum Techniques of Led Zeppelin: Note for Note Transcriptions of 23 Classic John Bonham Drum Tracks") and Marc Atkinson ("Led Zeppelin - IV Platinum Album Edition: Drum Set Transcriptions") get this right and both show the two bass drum strokes being played. Bonham's style and playing was just too fluid and smooth for there not to have been two bass drum strokes played. Introducing that delay as described here and only playing a single bass drum note feels to me like I'm getting whiplash from just listening to it. This of course is just my opinion, and I do not have access to the isolated multitracks of Bonham's drums on this song, but I am as certain of this as I've ever been of anything. Check out this link for the proper notation of this fill: www.theblackpage.net/technique/bonhamisms

[@E7MusicSchool]

HI Steve! YES Leppelin songs can be very hard to hear clear drum parts. Thanks for the feedback my friend!

[@carsongoolsby963]

Also how do I do the free live session

[@E7MusicSchool]

Easiest way is to email me at [e-mail] ... we will pick a time that works for you schedule.