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layla bass · Eric Clapton

EXERCISE 1 OF 91
Groove Q -- Chorus 2
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PART D
PART K
PART U
PART E
CHORUS
PART S10
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesQKEDU+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play layla bass on drums

201 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 6:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
6:55
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-22, ride through bars 23-26, hi-hat through bars 27-37 and ride through bars 38-45, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36, 93-94 and 108-110, and 18 more places -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    93
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
layla bass -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 5, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 37 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- Q, E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-38 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-46 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is layla bass?

115 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 layla bass hard to play on drums?

47 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

201 bars, about 6:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 layla bass?

23 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 5, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED