Eight Miles High · The Byrds

114 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 26-55 and 81-83, and 1 more place -- 40.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 132 BPM
EIGHT MILES HIGH · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 24, 76 and 84.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 12 sections: 99 keep time, 3 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-55.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART M
10 groovesEIBDM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eight Miles High?

132 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 Eight Miles High hard to play on drums?

60 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Eight Miles High?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 24, 76 and 84.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →