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Layla V2 · Derek And The Dominos

EXERCISE 11 OF 92
Groove I
94 / 198 BARS COVERED
0 / 92 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
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
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Layla V2 on drums

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.

52 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
198
LENGTH
6:51
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-9, ride through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-21, ride through bars 22-27 and hi-hat through bars 28-35, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    105
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Layla V2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

24 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 49 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 -- D, N -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-52 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 19-46 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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