Settle Down · No Doubt

142 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
5:41
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-25, 70-73 and 85-93, and 1 more place -- 23.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
SETTLE DOWN · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 80, 94 and 142.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 142
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 18 sections: 105 keep time, 3 are fills and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 117-141.

PART C
PART F
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
OUTRO
10 groovesECNFS17+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Settle Down?

100 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 Settle Down hard to play on drums?

51 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 5:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Settle Down?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 80, 94 and 142.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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