Layla V2 · Derek And The Dominos

198 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 6:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
6:51
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 21, and 19 more places -- 33.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 116 BPM
LAYLA V2 · BAR 105
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 49 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 18-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

198 bars across 15 sections: 107 keep time, 55 are fills, 2 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 168-190.

PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART S
PART O
PART AG
BREAK
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDFAGS11O+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Layla V2?

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 V2 hard to play on drums?

52 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?

198 bars, about 6:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 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 V2?

24 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED
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