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It's Too Late · Derek And The Dominos

EXERCISE 3 OF 26
Groove E (a two-bar phrase)
18 / 69 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesDS7LKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play It's Too Late on drums

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

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
34/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-19, ride through bars 20-27, hi-hat through bars 28-35, ride through bars 36-46 and silence through bars 47-69.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x-xxx-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---------x-x---------x-|
It's Too Late -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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, L -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 20-41 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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