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Eight Miles High · The Byrds

Eight Miles High · The Byrds
EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove E -- Chorus
0 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 46 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eight Miles High on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
60/100

ride through bars 3-10, toms through bars 11-16, snare through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-55, toms through bars 56-76 and snare through bars 77-80, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Eight Miles High -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E, I -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-21 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-77 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 61-99 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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