Too Young To Fall In Love · Mötley Crüe

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9 and 11-12, and 6 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
TOO YOUNG TO FALL IN LOVE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 13, 17, 19, 20, 30 and 11 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 5 sections: 48 keep time, 17 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-29.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAIRFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Too Young To Fall In Love?

100 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 Young To Fall In Love hard to play on drums?

52 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Young To Fall In Love?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 13, 17, 19, 20, 30 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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