Tally It Up, Settle the Score · Sleeping With Sirens

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 26-28 and 46-48, and 1 more place -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 97 BPM
TALLY IT UP, SETTLE THE SCORE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 21, 25 and 15 more.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 17 sections: 39 keep time, 21 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent.

PART H
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART X
PART AD
OUTRO 2
12 groovesDBUXAD+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tally It Up, Settle the Score?

97 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Tally It Up, Settle the Score hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Tally It Up, Settle the Score?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 21, 25 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Sleeping With Sirens drum parts

EVERY SLEEPING WITH SIRENS CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →