Name: Bill Burr on Mastering Led Zeppelin on Drums!
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr on Mastering Led Zeppelin on Drums!' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-10-04. Transcript available.

I have been playing a shitload of drums lately.
And specifically, I've told you,
I was working on like the one-handed,
like 16th note things.
And these songs that I used to play to
where my arm literally felt like it was gonna fall off,
two things, it doesn't feel that way anymore.
And now with the information my drum teacher,
Dave Elitch gave me, I can now like feel my forearm
if it gets tightened up and I just focus on my technique,
make it more of my wrist.
And then all of that tightness in my forearm,
I'm able to recover while still playing to the song.
I know this is some drum nerd shit.
Do you know what I've been fucking with
that I've just shied away from forever
because it just was so weird to try and play it
was Led Zeppelin rock and roll
with that left hand on the snare drum.
It is the weirdest, it's the weirdest thing
like I've ever tried to play as far as like,
it's just something I never do.
You're playing like accented eighth notes.
I think that's what he's doing.
And then you're playing eighth notes
with the accented eighth notes on the hi-hat,
accenting on two and four.
And then he's throwing in like, almost like bebop fills
when he doesn't stop the thing
while keeping the right hand on the hi-hat going
and keeping that whole groove.
Like if you just like, listen to that song as a drummer,
if you can just block everything out
and just listen to the hi-hat,
whatever he's doing on it, it's just fucking,
it's incredible and it's totally been like,
I've kind of been obsessing on it.
I used to obsess about like, how does he play the intro
and the end of the song?
And the intro was just, the story of it was,
it was actually from, it was a Little Richard drummer.
I forget the song, but the guy had done something like that
to start the song.
So Bonham was a fan of all of that.
So he was fucking around playing that.
And then Jimmy was like, what's that?
We should use that.
And they just used it as a fucking intro to the song.
And it's like, and four, and one, and two, and three,
and four, and one, and two, and three,
and four, and one, and two, and three, and four,
and, and, and it's three, and four, and boom,
and you're in.
And I was doing that for like an hour yesterday,
grinning ear to ear to finally at least know
how to fucking count it.
It's like a long time ago,
like trying to play along to In My Time Of Dying.
And I finally saw this drummer, Brian Tishe,
broke it down, was saying that,
this is just all for drummers here on out,
that the end of the song, the beginning of that song,
In My Time Of Dying, why it's so fucked up
is because it's in four, but it's not locked in on four.
I forget what the musical term is for that.
One of my siblings told me that in classical music,
there's a word for that.
So he counts it.
It's like one and two and three and four
and one and two and da da da da da da da da da da.
So it's all about one and two and three and four
and one and two and, and then you gotta go three, four,
one, two, three, four, bum, bum, dum.
That's how you count it.
So that last bit of guitar is stopping on the end of two.
And then you have to kind of almost be humming the song
when you count three, four,
'cause Jimmy is not playing the tempo of the song.
It's like sort of like on purpose, out of time, in time.
It's really fucking wild.
And it makes my day.
It makes my day when I actually nail it.
And I used to be, I was doing it a lot
and I got it down right.
One time I played it
and I came in at the right time on all of them.
And then of course the rest of the song went off the rails,
but I was able to do that.
But if you're like a dad drummer like me,
and you're into doing shit like that.
I don't know, you'd been trying to play the songs like that
since you were like a fucking teenager.
It's kind of an exciting thing that, you know,
one of the good things about the internet.