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Too Far Gone · Fried By Fluoride

EXERCISE 15 OF 19
Run E1 · Part E (bars 24-34)
73 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Too Far Gone on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:30 of playing, on crash, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
38/100

The time is kept on the snare the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 12 more places -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Too Far Gone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 27, 54 and 81.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- A, B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Too Far Gone?

130 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 Too Far Gone hard to play on drums?

38 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in Too Far Gone?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 27, 54 and 81.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED