Forever · The Berzerker

129 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 2:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

ElectronicMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-39, 57-71 and 115-129 -- 42.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 210 BPM
FOREVER · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 18, 20, 23 and 24.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 12 sections: 96 keep time, 4 are fills, 3 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-96.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART G
OUTRO
9 groovesEGHS1S2+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Forever?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Forever hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Forever?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 18, 20, 23 and 24.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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