The House Of The Rising Sun · The Animals

174 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 4:26 of playing on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-80, 82 and 84-90, and 4 more places -- 75.2% 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 · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 132, 154, 158, 169 and 170.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 132 · LANDS ON BAR 133 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 158 · LANDS ON BAR 159
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 169-170 · LANDS ON BAR 171 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 9 sections: 151 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-90.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART D
OUTRO
5 groovesBDS1CS9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The House Of The Rising Sun?

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 hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 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?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 132, 154, 158, 169 and 170.

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