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Settle Down · No Doubt

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove E -- Chorus 3
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0 / 39 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS
PART F
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
OUTRO
10 groovesECNFS17+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Settle Down on drums

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

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
5:41
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, snare through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, snare through bars 34-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-41, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-------x-|
BD |x--x----x--x----|
Settle Down -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- E, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-40 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 40-62 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 64-89 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 82-117 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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