Have You Ever Seen The Rain · Creedence Clearwater Revival

76 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 2:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6 and 8-22, and 5 more places -- 48% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 113 BPM
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE RAIN · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 23 and 51.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 5 sections: 69 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-75.

CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Have You Ever Seen The Rain?

113 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 You Ever Seen The Rain hard to play on drums?

45 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Have You Ever Seen The Rain?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 23 and 51.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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