Locked Out Of Heaven · Bruno Mars

138 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulPop120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 14 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 144 BPM
LOCKED OUT OF HEAVEN · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 42, 98 and 106.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 14 sections: 111 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-26.

CHORUS
PART E
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART H
PART L
PART S12
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCFLHE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Locked Out Of Heaven?

144 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Locked Out Of Heaven hard to play on drums?

60 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 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 Locked Out Of Heaven?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 42, 98 and 106.

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