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

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 17 PASSED · 94 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesBS1FS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The House Of The Rising Sun by The Animals short version on drums

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.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-8 and ride through bars 9-116.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |x-----x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
T2 |--xx--------|
BD |x-------x-x-|
The House Of The Rising Sun by The Animals short version -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Bars 89-95 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Break -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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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