Cake drum tabs
10 charts, 85-127 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
- 10
- TEMPO
- 85-127 BPM
- BARS IN ALL
- 929
- WITH A COURSE
- 9 of 10
- USUAL KEY
- C major
EVERY CAKE CHART
- I Will Survive95 BPM · 124 BARS
- The Distance89 BPM · 66 BARS · INTERMEDIATE
- Love You Madly107 BPM · 107 BARS
- Comfort Eagle120 BPM · 107 BARS
- Long Line Of Cars100 BPM · 85 BARS
- Satan Is My Motor100 BPM · 82 BARS
- Commissioning A Symphony In C127 BPM · 89 BARS
- Italian Leather Sofa104 BPM · 148 BARS
- Arco Arena85 BPM · 58 BARS
- Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps115 BPM · 63 BARS
LEARNING CAKE ON DRUMS
10 Cake drum parts are transcribed here, 929 bars of music in total, filed under alternative, alternative rock, indie and 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. 9 of these 10 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 "Arco Arena" at 85 BPM, the slowest of them, or "Arco Arena" at 58 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 Cake drum tabs are there?
10 Cake drum charts, each read from a real score and playable along to the record in the browser. 9 of them come with a practice course that breaks the part into exercises and takes each one up to tempo.
Are Cake songs hard to play on drums?
Tempos here run from 85 to 127 BPM. The slowest is "Arco Arena" at 85 BPM, and the shortest is "Arco Arena" at 58 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 Cake songs in?
Most often C major, A major and A minor. The catalogue files them under alternative, alternative rock, indie and rock.