A Million Miles Away · Rory Gallagher

230 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 10:13 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
230
LENGTH
10:13
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 10 and 12, and 48 more places -- 49.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
A MILLION MILES AWAY · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 11, 25, 29, 33, 34, 35 and 34 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 33-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

230 bars across 6 sections: 177 keep time, 40 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 118-152.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Million Miles Away?

90 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 A Million Miles Away hard to play on drums?

49 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

230 bars, about 10:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom, 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 A Million Miles Away?

19 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 11, 25, 29, 33, 34, 35 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 230 BARS ANALYSED
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