American Football drum tabs
11 charts, 86-160 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
- 11
- TEMPO
- 86-160 BPM
- BARS IN ALL
- 1,450
- WITH A COURSE
- 11 of 11
- USUAL KEY
- E major
EVERY AMERICAN FOOTBALL CHART
- Never Meant139 BPM · 121 BARS · BEGINNER
- The Summer Ends86 BPM · 67 BARS
- Never Meant (Standard Tuning)145 BPM · 117 BARS
- Stay Home120 BPM · 141 BARS
- For Sure86 BPM · 65 BARS · BEGINNER
- But The Regrets Are Killing Me130 BPM · 130 BARS
- My Instincts Are The Enemy140 BPM · 177 BARS
- You Know I Should Be Leaving Soon110 BPM · 109 BARS
- Bad Moons136 BPM · 260 BARS
- Uncomfortably Numb (not AI)86 BPM · 87 BARS
- Man Overboard160 BPM · 176 BARS
LEARNING AMERICAN FOOTBALL ON DRUMS
11 American Football drum parts are transcribed here, 1,450 bars of music in total, filed under indie, indie rock, math rock and alternative rock. 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. 11 of these 11 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 "The Summer Ends" at 86 BPM, the slowest of them, or "For Sure" at 65 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 American Football drum tabs are there?
11 American Football drum charts, each read from a real score and playable along to the record in the browser. 11 of them come with a practice course that breaks the part into exercises and takes each one up to tempo.
Are American Football songs hard to play on drums?
Tempos here run from 86 to 160 BPM. The slowest is "The Summer Ends" at 86 BPM, and the shortest is "For Sure" at 65 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 American Football songs in?
Most often E major, G major and A minor. The catalogue files them under indie, indie rock, math rock and alternative rock.