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The House Of The Rising Sun · The Animals

EXERCISE 3 OF 22
Groove C -- Part C
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0 / 22 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART C, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART D
OUTRO
5 groovesBDS1CS9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The House Of The Rising Sun on drums

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.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-8 and ride through bars 9-174.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |x-xxx-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. Bars 81-95 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 137-159 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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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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