House Of The Rising Sun · Five Finger Death Punch

140 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37, 41 and 45-46, and 16 more places -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 154 BPM
HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN · BAR 121
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 33, 47, 51, 55, 59, 62 and 22 more.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BARS 62-63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 11 sections: 74 keep time, 28 are fills, 9 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-32.

PART S1
PART C
PART H
PART M
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFCHS1M+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is House Of The Rising Sun?

154 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 House Of The Rising Sun hard to play on drums?

55 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?

140 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 House Of The Rising Sun?

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 33, 47, 51, 55, 59, 62 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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