I hate this song as well…Maybe its that whole “kids hate their parents’ music thing”… but i love Sabbath, so that doesnt explain all of my dislike for this
I have not memorized a song yet, I might learn segments, but I always have the tab scrolling in front of me. Great playing, damn that bass is amazing.
Despite my dislike of this song, i am teying to plid through. I can’t seem to keep tempo though. I have a metro going and i am still getting bufuddled halfway through
I consider this one the most difficult of the easy songs, a lot of variations in the notes and rhythm
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1 effing wrong note. I give up.
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Overall nice work on a tricky song @Old_WannaBe
To my ears I hear a bit of rushing the beat in beginning / middle which you settle in better towards the end.
Those timing transitions are tricky and maybe the rushing threw them off a little here and there.
This song seems to push you faster and faster when I played it, almost hard to resist it and stick to the beat. I agree with above that this was a really hard “easy” song.
Otherwise nice work man!
Nice work @Old_WannaBe ,
A few glitches in the the mix, but thats how we improve, tough song timing wise so all in all pretty good effort,
Cheers Brian
Its the damn organ. The timbre itself adds stress/anticipation and then when it starts playing off-beats it makes to want to rush.
I also had a hard time counting this out in 6/8 and instead counted it in 2 so maybe that is why my timing was a little off.
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Yeah, I hated that organ when I did it 
Agree, when I was recording She, the guitar was doing one thing and I was supposed to do another, I kept getting aligned with the guitar and had to ignore it to play the bass right. Same here with the damn organ.
This was definitely a hard “easy” song.
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I was the transcriber on this one, and it is - really - a hard ‘easy’ song.
There’s a bass mistake in there on the main recording which makes me happy… but hearing the bass notes and rhythms on this song is very very challenging.
Once you can hear what the part it, playing it gets easier, but placing the notes rhythmically into a very loose and organic live recording (where the bass is mixed in a real strange way) is very challenging.
Bravi tutti to all those who have tackled this one.
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Hey all, getting back to it here. Hats off to the many of you who learned the rhythmic nuances in this tune. I did not, but here’s is my approximation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUZlA-fyMwY
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Well done @dlamson13 !!
Ya this one was a big challenge for me too.
You sound great.
And where you might not have followed the score exactly, it doesn’t matter much cause you pretty much stayed in the groove anyway, so I call it a win!
Nice job.
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Thanks a lot @John_E ! Yeah i have more fun when i’m trying to catch the feel and not overthinking things too much
Ye-ahhh. This one. So I’ll be honest here-i never liked this song. I like it even less now. Learning it on the lessons was a drag. Only saving grace is my music guru telling me i could sub the lyrics to star Spangled banner ( it works ). I would have abandoned the song completely otherwise. I played it in the 50 songs, because i wanted the experience. I can say for sure that now that I’m satisfied with it i fully intend to neve play it again. That’s just me, Though. Everyone had their own taste.
My old praise group, Grace On Fire, played the Blind Boys of Alabama version of Amazing Grace set to House of the Rising Sun. Our priest loved our version when he heard it during a rehearsal and gave us the green light to play it during Mass…………with a visiting Bishop! The looks we got from the congregation when we started the intro ranged from disbelief, to confusion, to “WTF”………Once we got the lyrics going, those looks changed to “Ah, OK! This is cool!” The Bishop told us after that he was initially shocked, knowing that the original song was about a whore house and why were we playing it in a Catholic church to “Yes! I love it!” I can’t remember the specific Gospel or the Bishop’s specific Homily, but I do remember the song fit the readings that day. Maybe is was the story when Jesus saved that woman from being stoned when He said, “Let ye without sin cast the first stone.” It was a staple for our band to play whenever we gave praise concerts.
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I tried playing with the recording this morning and was it my imagination or are some of the notes an octave higher than in the transcription? Maybe I’m listening to the wrong instrument? Also, does the bass start right away or is there a delay? Definitely agree it is one of the harder “easy” songs. I’ll listen to it again later and try and figure out why my ears are deceiving me.
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I think there’s a guitar relationship in there that’s just super close? When i did that lesson in the module, it was maddening. Like, i truly hated it. When i was able to hit the fast workout every time i went about immediately never, ever playing it again. So i guess it’s time to play it again.
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Anyone who was around when The Animals released House of the Rising Sun knows it as a classic. And that a British band chose to record this song is entirely remarkable.
So, fine, those who weren’t around when this was a big thing (and it most definitely was) might not care for it. C’est la vie.
Regardless, it has earned its place in rock and roll history. Kudos to Josh for honoring this song and its musical structure.
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