A Thousand Miles · Vanessa Carlton

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-9, 12-13 and 30, and 2 more places -- 8.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
A THOUSAND MILES · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 25, 26, 27, 43, 48, 49 and 17 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 25-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 48-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 13 sections: 40 keep time, 23 are fills, 7 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-13.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART A
PART AC
CHORUS 3
PART A
PART AC
9 groovesDAACLF+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Thousand Miles?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Thousand Miles hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Thousand Miles?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 25, 26, 27, 43, 48, 49 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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