Too Little Too Late · Laufey

107 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-25, 40-46 and 68-88 -- 53.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
TOO LITTLE TOO LATE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 103, 104, 105, 106 and 107.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 103-107 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 10 sections: 83 keep time, 5 are fills and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-25.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART D
BREAK 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBDECS7+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Too Little Too Late?

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

Is Too Little Too Late hard to play on drums?

53 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 2:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Too Little Too Late?

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 103, 104, 105, 106 and 107.

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