Berserker · Ancient North

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

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-19 and 26-30, and 8 more places -- 45.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BERSERKER · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 20, 36, 40, 44, 52 and 12 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 15 sections: 109 keep time, 18 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-91.

CHORUS
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBKEHL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Berserker?

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 Berserker hard to play on drums?

58 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Berserker?

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 20, 36, 40, 44, 52 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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