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Too Far Gone? · Metallica

EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove E -- Chorus
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PART A
PART S3
CHORUS
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART H
CHORUS 4
6 groovesEHAKB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Too Far Gone? on drums

216 bars at 193 BPM -- fast, and 4:29 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
193 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-18, silence through bars 19-24, hi-hat through bars 25-37, snare through bars 38-39, hi-hat through bars 40-86 and snare through bars 87-88, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-30, 32-38 and 40-54, and 20 more places -- 55% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
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

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 3, 39, 63, 88, 104, 112 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-26 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-70 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 66-105 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 101-155 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Too Far Gone??

193 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Too Far Gone? hard to play on drums?

56 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Too Far Gone??

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 3, 39, 63, 88, 104, 112 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED