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Layla (Acoustic) · Eric Clapton

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove C -- Outro
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PART D
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCIVDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Layla (Acoustic) on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:18 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21, ride through bars 22-29, hi-hat through bars 30-37 and ride through bars 38-45, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 11-12 and 23, and 9 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    23
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x---x-----------x---|
Layla (Acoustic) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 95, 96, 97, 98 and 99.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C, D -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-64 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Layla (Acoustic)?

92 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Layla (Acoustic) hard to play on drums?

64 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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 Layla (Acoustic)?

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 95, 96, 97, 98 and 99.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED