Layla · Derek And The Dominos

203 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 6:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
6:56
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 108-110, 112-113 and 116-118, and 18 more places -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 116 BPM
LAYLA · BAR 108
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 5, 13, 15, 16, 17, 21 and 31 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 15-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

203 bars across 15 sections: 135 keep time, 37 are fills, 2 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 131-141.

PART G
PART Y
BREAK
PART AH
OUTRO
8 groovesAKGMAHY+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Layla?

116 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 hard to play on drums?

58 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

203 bars, about 6:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Layla?

16 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 5, 13, 15, 16, 17, 21 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 203 BARS ANALYSED
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