Kayleigh · Marillion

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressivePop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-35 and 37-39, and 10 more places -- 37.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 104 BPM
KAYLEIGH · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 28, 32, 44, 68, 88, 92 and 3 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 8 sections: 84 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-23.

PART D
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFCDIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kayleigh?

104 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Kayleigh hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Kayleigh?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 28, 32, 44, 68, 88, 92 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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