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Rhiannon Live · Fleetwood Mac

EXERCISE 1 OF 101
Groove G -- Chorus 2
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART AL
23 groovesGCHALI+18Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 26
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 31
LINK · 7
SECTION · 19
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rhiannon Live on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
219
LENGTH
6:20
DIFFICULTY
51/100

toms through bars 3-15, hi-hat through bars 16-20, toms through bars 21-30, snare through bars 31-35, toms through bars 36-71 and snare through bars 72-75, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    112
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Rhiannon Live -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 93 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 -- G, H -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-46 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-25 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-32 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-41 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-55 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 54-66 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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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