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.

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

225 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

184

LENGTH

3:16

DIFFICULTY

92/100

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, ride through bars 34-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-57, and 14 more changes after that.

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.

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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---|

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

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
3. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. Bars 63-86 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
8. Through Part K and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.