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Four Sticks
Song Information
- Artist:
- Page/Plant
- Debuted:
- 2008
- Play Count:
- 1 times
- Other Notes:
- "Four Sticks" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin from their fourth album, released in 1971. The title came from the fact that drummer John Bonham played with two sets of two drumsticks, totalling four.[1] His decision to play the song with four sticks was a result of him being very frustrated with not being able to get the track down right. After he grabbed the second pair of sticks and beat the drums as hard as he could, he recorded the perfect take and that was the one they kept. This song was particularly difficult to record, and required more takes than usual.[1] John Paul Jones played a moog synthesizer on the track.[1] Guitarist Jimmy Page once said of the song: "It was supposed to be abstract." The abstract effect is further achieved by the unusual time signature of the song, featuring riffs in a mixture of 5/4 and 6/8 time signatures. After another failed take during the recording, Jimmy began to play an improvised guitar riff out of frustration. John Bonham began to play along with a drum track from a Little Richard song. That riff was later on developed into the second track of the album, "Rock and Roll".