The House Of The Rising Sun by The Animals short version · Misc Covers

116 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 2:55 of playing on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-80, 84-90 and 95-99, and 1 more place -- 87.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THE HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN BY THE ANIMALS SHORT VERSION · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 81, 82, 100, 111, 112, 115 and 1 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 81-82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 111-112 · LANDS ON BAR 113 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 5 sections: 97 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-80.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesBS1FS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The House Of The Rising Sun by The Animals short version?

120 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 The House Of The Rising Sun by The Animals short version hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The House Of The Rising Sun by The Animals short version?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 81, 82, 100, 111, 112, 115 and 1 more.

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