Ultimate Drum Play-Along Led Zeppelin, Vol 1: Play Along with 8 Great-Sounding Tracks (Authentic Drum), Book & 1 CD (Ultimate Play-Along) (Ultimate Play-Along, Vol 1)

This is very well done, well written, and great to practice with on the disk. You can control the speed and practice on the section you want to practice to get it right. Don't expect this to be Led Zeppelin playing, it's another band, but it's pretty authentic. This is a great item to buy if you want to learn John Bonham's style at the pace you can handle.

I'm updating my review as promised, because of the wonderful customer support provided by Aaron Stang at Alfred Music Publishing. I complained about the ever-present click tracks, and how those really ruin the fun, because they are generally so darned loud! Well, Alfred has addressed this issue... retroactively, even. I just can't ask for better customer service than that.This gets a 5 STAR rating, with no reservations. Having listened to the full tracks, including drums, it's easy to hear that these were performed, engineered, and produced by people with a real appreciation, maybe even a love, for Led Zeppelin. Little nuances like Bonham's signature snare sound, with just the right tone, attack, and even the right amount of "air" around it, are in evidence throughout. The guitar and bass sound like they're supposed to sound. If I were lucky enough to be on stage with these guys, I'd consider it a very good day, and would be beaming from ear to ear.There are some things I'd have fixed, but these are very minor nits, such as a strange way of handling the tempo increase in Stairway... it happens almost at once, during the breaks immediately before the guitar solo. A couple of other things, but minor, and not worth mentioning more than in passing. *Do not let these dissuade you.* If you are a music fan, and play drums in any capacity whatsoever, I doubt you'll be disappointed in this set.

Very good material, very nice sound faithfull to the one chosen by Led Zep at the time.yes the small problem is linked to that click thing, but I emailed Aaron to get the version without itand he sent it right away, very reliable.I warmly recommend this method, it is a "must have" for any rock drummer who tries to play Bonham style, or already know how to do it (which is my case)yes, there will be always people to complain about this and that, small details. I wish all the play along would be done like this one.

Any drummer that has been inspired to play the drums because of Led Zeppelin and MR. John Bonham should take advantage of this play along book. Only thing I found on a couple songs was the tempo (bpm) beats per minute was a little off. Other than that....good study material to get your John Bonham chops dialed in.

If you love rock drumming and John Bonham then this book is perfect. It's great because of the CDs that extremely help with aspects of nuances, timing, listening, instrumentation, etc. To play along to the drum-less authentic music, and then to to hear the Drums alone is a plus. The transcriptions are easy to read and are well explained.

Last week I emailed you a pdf of my Amazon purchase for this title and, within minutes, you sent me a link to download the Zepplin Vol.1 tracks minus click.The musicianship, production values and care to the details on this project are really awesome. I look forward to the next one.Thanks again,Ed

Really well written.