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Berzerker V2 · Ancient North

EXERCISE 5 OF 62
Groove B -- Part B
62 / 148 BARS COVERED
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Berzerker V2 on drums

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.

55 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
55/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, ride through bars 29-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-44, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Berzerker V2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 32, 36 and 26 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 -- D, G -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 9-24 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-41 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-46 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 44-60 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-72 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and Part W -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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