Mr. Amsterdam · Sum 41

128 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 2:55 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 29-32, and 15 more places -- 46.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 176 BPM
MR. AMSTERDAM · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 28, 40, 44 and 20 more.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 8 sections: 84 keep time, 26 are fills and 10 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-27.

PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDGAPOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mr. Amsterdam?

176 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 Mr. Amsterdam hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Mr. Amsterdam?

15 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 28, 40, 44 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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