ABBA drum tabs
18 charts, 55-148 BPM. Each one is read from a real score: play it along to the record, slow it down, or take the practice course under it.
MOST PLAYED
- CHARTS
- 18
- TEMPO
- 55-148 BPM
- BARS IN ALL
- 1,868
- WITH A COURSE
- 15 of 18
- USUAL KEY
- D minor
EVERY ABBA CHART
- Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)115 BPM · 149 BARS · BEGINNER
- Mamma Mia140 BPM · 111 BARS · BEGINNER
- Waterloo148 BPM · 98 BARS · BEGINNER
- Does Your Mother Know135 BPM · 122 BARS
- The Winner Takes It All123 BPM · 119 BARS · BEGINNER
- Lay All Your Love On Me135 BPM · 152 BARS · BEGINNER
- Slipping Through My Fingers69 BPM · 67 BARS
- Voulez-Vous126 BPM · 138 BARS
- Super Trouper119 BPM · 123 BARS
- S.O.S.115 BPM · 81 BARS
- Fernando104 BPM · 113 BARS
- Thank You For The Music55 BPM · 90 BARS
- Take A Chance On Me106 BPM · 106 BARS
- SOS120 BPM · 80 BARS
- I've Been Waiting For You80 BPM · 69 BARS
- My Love, My Life80 BPM · 67 BARS
- Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! BASS120 BPM · 142 BARS
- Slipping Through My Fingers - HSWV69 BPM · 41 BARS
LEARNING ABBA ON DRUMS
18 ABBA drum parts are transcribed here, 1,868 bars of music in total, filed under pop, disco, europop and 70s. Every one of them is a chart read from a real score rather than a tab somebody typed out: the notes are where the score put them, the tempo is the record’s own, and the page plays the recording underneath while you read.
Nothing here asks you to play it at full speed on the first pass. Take any chart down to half tempo, loop the four bars that will not come clean, and bring it back up. 15 of these 18 songs also have a practice course under them: the part broken into the few things actually different about it, one at a time, ending with you playing the whole song against the record.
A good place to start is "Thank You For The Music" at 55 BPM, the slowest of them, or "Slipping Through My Fingers - HSWV" at 41 bars, the shortest. Sheet music, tab, MIDI and MusicXML download from every chart if you would rather read it away from the screen.
QUESTIONS
How many ABBA drum tabs are there?
18 ABBA drum charts, each read from a real score and playable along to the record in the browser. 15 of them come with a practice course that breaks the part into exercises and takes each one up to tempo.
Are ABBA songs hard to play on drums?
Tempos here run from 55 to 148 BPM. The slowest is "Thank You For The Music" at 55 BPM, and the shortest is "Slipping Through My Fingers - HSWV" at 41 bars, which makes either a reasonable place to start. Every chart also has a simplified version with the hi-hat pulled back and the fills written as eighths on the snare.
What key are most ABBA songs in?
Most often D minor, F major and D major. The catalogue files them under pop, disco, europop and 70s.