David Bowie drum tabs
27 charts, 72-180 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
- 27
- TEMPO
- 72-180 BPM
- BARS IN ALL
- 3,007
- WITH A COURSE
- 26 of 27
- USUAL KEY
- G major
EVERY DAVID BOWIE CHART
- Space Oddity72 BPM · 89 BARS · INTERMEDIATE
- Starman87 BPM · 108 BARS · BEGINNER
- Heroes113 BPM · 90 BARS · BEGINNER
- The Man Who Sold The World118 BPM · 122 BARS · BEGINNER
- Rebel Rebel128 BPM · 139 BARS · INTERMEDIATE
- Ziggy Stardust80 BPM · 63 BARS · BEGINNER
- Let's Dance114 BPM · 123 BARS · BEGINNER
- Moonage Daydream72 BPM · 83 BARS · INTERMEDIATE
- Suffragette City140 BPM · 122 BARS
- China Girl134 BPM · 149 BARS · BEGINNER
- Life On Mars?128 BPM · 87 BARS
- Ashes To Ashes120 BPM · 134 BARS
- Changes114 BPM · 97 BARS
- Modern Love180 BPM · 196 BARS
- Queen Bitch137 BPM · 104 BARS
- Sound And Vision110 BPM · 83 BARS
- Fame96 BPM · 96 BARS
- Five Years84 BPM · 122 BARS
- Time72 BPM · 92 BARS
- As The World Falls Down96 BPM · 119 BARS
- Under Pressure114 BPM · 112 BARS
- The man who sold the world116 BPM · 125 BARS
- The Prettiest Star110 BPM · 89 BARS
- Magic Dance106 BPM · 111 BARS
- Boys Keep Swinging123 BPM · 100 BARS
- Modern Love180 BPM · 169 BARS
- Be My Wife108 BPM · 83 BARS
LEARNING DAVID BOWIE ON DRUMS
27 David Bowie drum parts are transcribed here, 3,007 bars of music in total, filed under classic rock, glam rock, rock and pop. 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. 26 of these 27 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 "Space Oddity" at 72 BPM, the slowest of them, or "Ziggy Stardust" at 63 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 David Bowie drum tabs are there?
27 David Bowie drum charts, each read from a real score and playable along to the record in the browser. 26 of them come with a practice course that breaks the part into exercises and takes each one up to tempo.
Are David Bowie songs hard to play on drums?
Tempos here run from 72 to 180 BPM. The slowest is "Space Oddity" at 72 BPM, and the shortest is "Ziggy Stardust" at 63 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 David Bowie songs in?
Most often G major, D major and A minor. The catalogue files them under classic rock, glam rock, rock and pop.