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Never Too Late · Three Days Grace

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove F -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFBS1GA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Never Too Late on drums

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.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-72, snare through bars 73-84, hi-hat through bars 85-104 and snare through bars 105-119.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
Never Too Late -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-35 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 38-77 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 80-102 -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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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