BERSERK · FORCES

118 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 21-25 and 31-33, and 5 more places -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BERSERK · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 10, 14, 18, 19, 20, 26 and 20 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 18-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 13 sections: 71 keep time, 26 are fills, 3 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-9.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART R
CHORUS 4
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBRNWD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is BERSERK?

120 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 BERSERK hard to play on drums?

56 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?

118 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in BERSERK?

16 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 10, 14, 18, 19, 20, 26 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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