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Have You Ever Loved a Woman · Eric Clapton

Have You Ever Loved a Woman · Eric Clapton
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EXERCISE 7 OF 46
Groove E
138 / 196 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Have You Ever Loved a Woman on drums

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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
196
LENGTH
5:59
DIFFICULTY
56/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-10, hi-hat through bars 11-50, ride through bars 51-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-65, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    51
    1...........2...........3...........
RD |x-----x---x-x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------------x-----------------|
BD |x-----------------------------x-----|
Have You Ever Loved a Woman -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 4 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 4 and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 134-151 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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