A play-along video by Lauren Bateman for 'House of the Rising Sun' intended for practice, not a full instructional lesson. Lauren performs the song twice for viewers: first as a slow strumming version (counted in 6/8), then as a picked version with occasional raking while singing. She encourages learners to keep going through mistakes, notes the song's chord changes (calls out F as a tricky change), and provides spoken counts to help timing.
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Hey guitar enthusiasts, welcome back to the Play along series. This is not actually a lesson video on House of the Rising Sun. If you want to see the lesson video, there's a link below this video. This is actually the Play along where you get to practice playing along from the beginning to the end of the song. With me now what I'll do is is I'm gonna play through probably play through a couple ways for you guys. Usually I start off by going slower and then I play faster. So what I'm doing is I'm going to take the house of the rising sun and I'm gonna do it very slowly as eighth note. And this is a 68 pattern. But for a lot of people this is much easier to play than if I pick it.
Which I will do the the second time through. So if you want to play just strumming, we'll do it the first way through. The second time I'll do it the picking way so that you can practice both ways. So we'll start off with the intro. This song is in six, eight times so we're going to be counting. One, two, three, four, five, six. One, two, three, Four, five, six. Alright, starting at a minor, here we go. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
There is a house.
In New Orleans.
That cover.
It's been the ruin.
Of many a.
Poor boy thank God I know.
My mother.
Was a tailor she so.
Jeans.
My father.
Was.
Camera man.
Down in New Orleans.
Now the only thing.
Again.
The knee.
Suitcase and a trunk.
The only time.
That he is satisfied Is when he is on the drunk.
Sun.
Spend your.
House the rising sun.
I'm going.
Back.
You.
Last verse.
Well there is.
A house in New Orleans.
Become.
And it's been the ruin.
Many a fall boy.
All right, so that's the first time through with the strumming this next time through I'm going to do some picking and. And don't be too hard on yourself, you know, picking. Especially if you're still learning how to pick.
If you make a mistake, just keep going. Just try and get the chord. If you can't get your change that F chord fast enough, don't worry. This song has a lot of chords and a lot of changes in it. Just keep practicing. Alright, so we're going to take it from the top again. I'm going to play it.
Picked. I won't do the rake or I might depends on my mind does its own thing when I start singing. So I might do picking, I might do some raking. Whatever comes out comes out. And I literally don't have much control over it. So let's start off with our intro on the A minor again. Ready? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Oops, sorry. Do that again. 1, 2, 3, 4,. 5, 6.
There is a house in New Orleans.
There comes a rising sun.
It'S been.
The ruin.
Many a full boy and God I know I want.
My mother was.
She saw my new OG.
My father was gambling man down in New Orleans.
The only thing again beneath is a.
Su and a trunk.
The only time.
That that he is satisfied Is when I'm on the drum.
Oh my mother tell get chill children.
What to do what I've done.
Just spend your loves and sin and misery.
In the house the rising sun.
The other foot on the train.
And.
I'm going back to new Only.
There is a house in New Orleans.
They come around.
Sun.
Of many a boy and God I know One more.
And there you have it. That is House of the rising sun. Pickthrough. You can see that I varied things up a little bit here and there, but just to give you different ideas of how you can play the song. So if you guys enjoyed this video, you can always go to laurenbateman.com donate I always appreciate support, support from you guys. It lets me know that you guys appreciate what I'm doing here. So if you could do that. Thumbs up. Fantastic. Can't talk. Fantastic. I'll see you guys in the next video.
