Amsterdam · Nothing But Thieves

160 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 11 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 168 BPM
AMSTERDAM · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 142 and 160.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 142 · LANDS ON BAR 143
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 160
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 13 sections: 141 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-120.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART N
PART O
OUTRO
10 groovesDAOLN+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Amsterdam?

168 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 Amsterdam hard to play on drums?

53 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Amsterdam?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 142 and 160.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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