Too Late For Love · Def Leppard

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 3:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 8 more places -- 46.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 99 BPM
TOO LATE FOR LOVE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 28, 44 and 14 more.

LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 8 sections: 52 keep time, 20 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-27.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBHAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Too Late For Love?

99 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 Late For Love hard to play on drums?

45 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Too Late For Love?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 28, 44 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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