It's Too Late · Derek And The Dominos

69 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 114 BPM, 3:38 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 12-14 and 28-30 -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 114 BPM
IT'S TOO LATE · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 9, 17, 18, 19, 33, 35 and 2 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 17-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 7 sections: 32 keep time, 8 are fills and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesDS7LKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is It's Too Late?

114 BPM, in 6/4, 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 It's Too Late hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in It's Too Late?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 9, 17, 18, 19, 33, 35 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED
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