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Have You Ever Seen The Rain · Smokie

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove C -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Have You Ever Seen The Rain on drums

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

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-112, silence through bars 113-118 and hi-hat through bars 119-127.

The beat

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.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Have You Ever Seen The Rain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 32 minutes.
  2. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 79-99 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 9 minutes.
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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