Berzerker V2 · Ancient North

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

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 29, and 8 more places -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BERZERKER V2 · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 32, 36 and 26 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 19 sections: 81 keep time, 32 are fills, 19 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART O
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART B
PART W
PART B
CHORUS 4
PART G
CHORUS 5
PART L
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDGBLO+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Berzerker V2?

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 Berzerker V2 hard to play on drums?

55 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 30 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 45 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 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 V2?

16 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 32, 36 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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