Settle For A Draw · Arctic Monkeys

98 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 8-10 and 12-14, and 11 more places -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
SETTLE FOR A DRAW · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 11, 38, 39 and 11 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 1-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 38-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 6 sections: 70 keep time, 17 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-54.

PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHDGEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Settle For A Draw?

135 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 For A Draw hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Settle For A Draw?

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 11, 38, 39 and 11 more.

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