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Layla · Korn

EXERCISE 1 OF 59
Groove L -- Chorus
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PART E
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART X
PART AH
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesLEIXAH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Layla on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
79/100

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-76, ride through bars 77-84, hi-hat through bars 85-87 and ride through bars 88-101, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 27-29 and 39-41, and 5 more places -- 20.8% 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.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
HH |------------o---------------o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-------x-----x-----|
HF |x---------------x---------------|
Layla -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 26 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Layla?

133 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 hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 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?

12 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 26 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED