Have You Ever Loved a Woman · Eric Clapton

196 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 98 BPM, 5:59 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
196
LENGTH
5:59
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-10, 51-55 and 66-70, and 12 more places -- 34.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 98 BPM
HAVE YOU EVER LOVED A WOMAN · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 105, 121, 153, 157, 168, 169 and 4 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 121 · LANDS ON BAR 122
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 153 · LANDS ON BAR 154 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 168-169 · LANDS ON BAR 170 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

196 bars across 19 sections: 165 keep time, 10 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-49.

PART D
PART D
PART F
PART D
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCDIFH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Have You Ever Loved a Woman?

98 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 You Ever Loved a Woman hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

196 bars, about 5:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Have You Ever Loved a Woman?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 105, 121, 153, 157, 168, 169 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 196 BARS ANALYSED
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