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Have I Told You Lately · Van Morrison

EXERCISE 6 OF 9
2-bar fill at bar 72
69 / 73 BARS COVERED
0 / 9 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Have I Told You Lately on drums

73 bars, 4:07, at 71 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
71 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
30/100

hi-hat through bars 3-71 and snare through bars 72-73.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-57 and 60-71 -- 93% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Have I Told You Lately -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 58, 72 and 73.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Have I Told You Lately?

71 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

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

30 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Have I Told You Lately?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 58, 72 and 73.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED