Amsterdam · Coldplay

22 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 1:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
22
LENGTH
1:07
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 1 more place -- 66.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 79 BPM
AMSTERDAM · BAR 7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 5.

LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

22 bars across 2 sections: 16 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-21.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Amsterdam?

79 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 Amsterdam hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

22 bars, about 1:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Amsterdam?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 5.

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