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Tally It Up, Settle the Score · Sleeping With Sirens

EXERCISE 2 OF 55
Groove B -- Part B
12 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART H
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART U
PART X
PART AD
OUTRO 2
12 groovesDBUXAD+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tally It Up, Settle the Score on drums

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.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
83/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-11, hi-hat through bars 12-16, snare through bars 17-28, toms through bars 29-37 and snare through bars 38-47, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |X---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|
BD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
Tally It Up, Settle the Score -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-25 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 26-38 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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