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Lock It Up · No Pressure

EXERCISE 13 OF 37
Groove I
66 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDHKRS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lock It Up on drums

100 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:00
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, silence through bars 25-27, hi-hat through bars 28-44, toms through bars 45-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-68, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 53-59, and 1 more place -- 39.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x----x--|
Lock It Up -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 16, 52 and 84.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, K -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-25 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part K and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-53 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 69-78 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lock It Up?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Lock It Up hard to play on drums?

63 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 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Lock It Up?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 16, 52 and 84.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED