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BERSERK · FORCES

BERSERK · FORCES
EXERCISE 11 OF 62
Groove E
65 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART N, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play BERSERK on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-20, snare through bars 21-26, hi-hat through bars 27-30, snare through bars 31-38 and silence through bars 39-42, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x----x--x|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
BERSERK -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- B, R -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-31 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-50 -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-71 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 4 and Part W -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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