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Berserker · Ancient North

EXERCISE 23 OF 55
Groove L -- Outro
119 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, CHORUS 3, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBKEHL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Berserker on drums

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

58 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
148
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-65, snare through bars 66-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-148.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-43 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-36 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 56-137 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus 3 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 92-106 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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