Lock Up Your Children · Morbid Saint

184 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 3:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
92/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-33, 42-57 and 127-142, and 1 more place -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 225 BPM
LOCK UP YOUR CHILDREN · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 17, 41, 85, 89, 126 and 4 more.

LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 12 sections: 155 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 151-177.

CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
7 groovesFDBGM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lock Up Your Children?

225 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 Up Your Children hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Lock Up Your Children?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 17, 41, 85, 89, 126 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
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