Have I Told You Lately · Rod Stewart

85 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:26 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-85 -- 98.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
HAVE I TOLD YOU LATELY · BAR 6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 2 sections: 81 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-85.

OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Have I Told You Lately?

140 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 Have I Told You Lately hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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