Never Too Late · Three Days Grace

119 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29, and 27 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
NEVER TOO LATE · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 32, 48, 56, 64, 72, 76 and 7 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 12 sections: 62 keep time, 13 are fills, 18 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-23.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFBS1GA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Never Too Late?

150 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 Never Too Late hard to play on drums?

50 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Never Too Late?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 32, 48, 56, 64, 72, 76 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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