A Million To One · KISS

116 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-19 and 21-27, and 21 more places -- 53.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 117 BPM
A MILLION TO ONE · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 29, 34, 42, 59, 70 and 12 more.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 9 sections: 82 keep time, 18 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-28.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEBTS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Million To One?

117 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 To One hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 A Million To One?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 29, 34, 42, 59, 70 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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