Love Takes Miles · Cameron Winter

106 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 7 and 11-12, and 7 more places -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 112 BPM
LOVE TAKES MILES · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 7 times: bars 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105 and 1 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 100-106 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 13 sections: 80 keep time, 7 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-76.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART R
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDCERI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Love Takes Miles?

112 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 Love Takes Miles hard to play on drums?

61 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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 Love Takes Miles?

1 fill to learn, played 7 times: bars 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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