Lockdown · Heaven

240 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
240
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 193-195, 197-199 and 201-203, and 5 more places -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
LOCKDOWN · BARS 193-194
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 47, 48 and 36 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

240 bars across 15 sections: 145 keep time, 42 are fills, 9 are stops and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-87.

PART B
CHORUS
PART W
PART Z
PART T
PART W
PART S13
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesHAVS13WZ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lockdown?

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

Is Lockdown hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 97 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

240 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 25 sittings, about 24 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 Lockdown?

15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 47, 48 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 240 BARS ANALYSED
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