The House of the Rising Sun · Frog Leap Studios

213 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 117 BPM, 5:43 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
213
LENGTH
5:43
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45-47 and 49-53, and 7 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 117 BPM
THE HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 32, 54, 58, 76, 89, 90 and 25 more.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BARS 89-90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

213 bars across 18 sections: 137 keep time, 31 are fills, 8 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-23.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART AB
BREAK
14 groovesEBCABS15+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The House of the Rising Sun?

117 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 hard to play on drums?

59 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

213 bars, about 5:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 The House of the Rising Sun?

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 32, 54, 58, 76, 89, 90 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 213 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →