Rhiannon · Fleetwood Mac

132 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39, 41 and 43, and 17 more places -- 51.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 129 BPM
RHIANNON · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 5 sections: 125 keep time, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-132.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesFBS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rhiannon?

129 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 Rhiannon hard to play on drums?

59 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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