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Amsterdam · Nothing But Thieves

EXERCISE 28 OF 40
Groove P -- Part P
146 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART N
PART O
PART P
OUTRO
10 groovesDAOLN+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Amsterdam on drums

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.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
53/100

toms through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-36, snare through bars 37-40 and toms through bars 41-47, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x-x-x---x-|
Amsterdam -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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, O, A -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 51-74 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 67-82 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 77-120 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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