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Too Late For Love · Def Leppard

EXERCISE 12 OF 40
Groove G
53 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Too Late For Love on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36, snare through bars 37-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-52, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Too Late For Love -- 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 8, 12, 16, 20, 28, 44 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 21-48 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-71 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes.
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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