Kayleigh v2 · 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 and kick.

90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-35 and 37-39, and 6 more places -- 42.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 104 BPM
KAYLEIGH V2 · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 28, 44, 88, 96 and 103.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 103 · LANDS ON BAR 104
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 6 sections: 90 keep time, 5 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-27.

PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFCIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kayleigh v2?

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 v2 hard to play on drums?

49 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 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Kayleigh v2?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 28, 44, 88, 96 and 103.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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