All I Need Is A Miracle · Mike + the Mechanics

115 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Jazz / BluesElectronic120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-23, 25-58 and 60-64, and 4 more places -- 94.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 133 BPM
ALL I NEED IS A MIRACLE · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 24, 59, 65, 92, 100 and 108.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars: 109 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-58.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is All I Need Is A Miracle?

133 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 All I Need Is A Miracle hard to play on drums?

52 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in All I Need Is A Miracle?

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 24, 59, 65, 92, 100 and 108.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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