Rhiannon Live · Fleetwood Mac

219 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 6:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
219
LENGTH
6:20
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-20, 112-121 and 133-141, and 2 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
RHIANNON LIVE · BAR 112
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 107, 127, 173, 185, 187, 217 and 1 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 107 · LANDS ON BAR 108
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 127 · LANDS ON BAR 128
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 173 · LANDS ON BAR 174
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 185 · LANDS ON BAR 186

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

219 bars across 33 sections: 162 keep time, 7 are fills, 7 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 110-122.

CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AL
23 groovesGCHALI+18Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rhiannon Live?

138 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 Live hard to play on drums?

51 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

219 bars, about 6:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 93 exercises over 23 sittings, about 28 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.

How many fills are in Rhiannon Live?

7 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 107, 127, 173, 185, 187, 217 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 219 BARS ANALYSED
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