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Locked Out Of Heaven · Bruno Mars

EXERCISE 13 OF 38
Fill at bar 42
101 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART F
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Locked Out Of Heaven on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
60/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-42, toms through bars 43-49, hi-hat through bars 50-90, toms through bars 91-98 and ride through bars 99-115, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |----------x---x-|
Locked Out Of Heaven -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-38 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 46-59 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-100 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED