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Never Too Much · Luther Vandross

Never Too Much · Luther Vandross
EXERCISE 6 OF 8
Groove G
88 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 8 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Never Too Much on drums

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

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
52/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-------|
Never Too Much -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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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