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The House of the Rising Sun · Frog Leap Studios

The House of the Rising Sun · Frog Leap Studios
EXERCISE 7 OF 81
Groove D
88 / 213 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The House of the Rising Sun on drums

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.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
213
LENGTH
5:43
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-40, hi-hat through bars 41-54, ride through bars 55-62, hi-hat through bars 63-90 and snare through bars 91-92, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o--o--o--o--|
SD |---x-----x--|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The House of the Rising Sun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- E, B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-91 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Bars 100-109 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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