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Berzerker · After The Burial

EXERCISE 2 OF 56
Groove AB -- Part AB (a two-bar phrase)
23 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AB
PART S2
CHORUS
PART N
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AB
PART AI
PART AQ
OUTRO
11 groovesJXABS2A+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Berzerker on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 5:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
90/100

hi-hat through bars 2-19, snare through bars 20-21, hi-hat through bars 22-23, snare through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-27 and snare through bars 28-29, and 27 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18, 20-22 and 24-25, and 8 more places -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    20                               21
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x-------|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|----x-------x-------x-------xxxx|
BD |--x-----x-x---x---x---x-x-x---x-|--x---x-x-x---x---x---x---xx----|
Berzerker -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Berzerker?

112 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Berzerker hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 19 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Berzerker?

7 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED