Never Too Much · Luther Vandross

101 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulElectronic90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 30 more places -- 60.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
NEVER TOO MUCH · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars: 101 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-101.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Never Too Much?

110 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 Much 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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