Have You Ever Seen The Rain · Smokie

127 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 16-17 and 19-21, and 15 more places -- 62.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE RAIN · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 38, 66, 70, 98, 118 and 1 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 7 sections: 101 keep time, 7 are fills, 2 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-63.

COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCJES1S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Have You Ever Seen The Rain?

120 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?

46 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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 Seen The Rain?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 38, 66, 70, 98, 118 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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