House Of The Rising Sun · The Animals

14 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 123 BPM, 0:20 of playing on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
14
LENGTH
0:20
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 83% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11 and 13-14 -- 83.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 123 BPM
HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN · BAR 11
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

14 bars across 2 sections: 6 keep time and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-14.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesS1BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is House Of The Rising Sun?

123 BPM, in 3/4, 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?

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

14 bars, about 0:20 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 2 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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