Billy Joel drum tabs
14 charts, 65-156 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
- 14
- TEMPO
- 65-156 BPM
- BARS IN ALL
- 1,880
- WITH A COURSE
- 14 of 14
- USUAL KEY
- C major
EVERY BILLY JOEL CHART
- You May Be Right147 BPM · 152 BARS
- Vienna125 BPM · 99 BARS · BEGINNER
- We Didn't Start The Fire146 BPM · 159 BARS · BEGINNER
- Pressure150 BPM · 174 BARS
- Still Rock And Roll To Me139 BPM · 98 BARS
- Only The Good Die Young156 BPM · 129 BARS
- Allentown120 BPM · 104 BARS
- My Life131 BPM · 153 BARS
- Honesty65 BPM · 60 BARS
- Moving out134 BPM · 113 BARS
- Piano Man (Ver. 2)110 BPM · 166 BARS
- I Go to Extremes (Ver. 2)126 BPM · 152 BARS
- You May Be Right148 BPM · 154 BARS
- Just The Way You Are (2021 Remaster)134 BPM · 167 BARS
LEARNING BILLY JOEL ON DRUMS
14 Billy Joel drum parts are transcribed here, 1,880 bars of music in total, filed under classic rock, pop, rock and singer-songwriter. 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. 14 of these 14 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 "Honesty" at 65 BPM, the slowest of them, or "Honesty" at 60 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 Billy Joel drum tabs are there?
14 Billy Joel drum charts, each read from a real score and playable along to the record in the browser. 14 of them come with a practice course that breaks the part into exercises and takes each one up to tempo.
Are Billy Joel songs hard to play on drums?
Tempos here run from 65 to 156 BPM. The slowest is "Honesty" at 65 BPM, and the shortest is "Honesty" at 60 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 Billy Joel songs in?
Most often C major, D major and A major. The catalogue files them under classic rock, pop, rock and singer-songwriter.