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Layla · Derek And The Dominos

EXERCISE 18 OF 70
Join Part G to Part M (bars 16-18)
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0 / 70 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART M
PART G
PART M
PART Y
BREAK
PART AH
OUTRO
8 groovesAKGMAHY+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Layla on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
6:56
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21, ride through bars 22-29, hi-hat through bars 30-37 and ride through bars 38-45, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    108
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Layla -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- AH, AG -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part G and Part M -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part Y -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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