Steve Miller Band, “Fly Like an Eagle” (1976)

The Steve Miller Band has been active in American rock music since the late 1960s and continues to produce albums today. The song “Fly Like an Eagle” topped the charts in 1977 and became one of the most recognizable songs from the 1970s. It was used in the soundtrack of the 1996 hit movie Space Jamand continuously on advertisements for the United States Postal Service through the 1990s. Listen to this well-known four-bar excerpt and answer the questions below.

Optional: Prepare to improvise using the back-up track provided. Notice that the song uses (almost exclusively) the Dorian mode on A (a, b, c, d, e, f#, g, a).