Dire Straits drum tabs
22 charts, 60-170 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
- 22
- TEMPO
- 60-170 BPM
- BARS IN ALL
- 3,804
- WITH A COURSE
- 21 of 22
- USUAL KEY
- F major
EVERY DIRE STRAITS CHART
- Sultans Of Swing148 BPM · 215 BARS · INTERMEDIATE
- Money For Nothing126 BPM · 243 BARS · BEGINNER
- Brothers In Arms78 BPM · 114 BARS · BEGINNER
- Lady Writer149 BPM · 140 BARS · BEGINNER
- Tunnel Of Love135 BPM · 293 BARS · INTERMEDIATE
- Telegraph Road84 BPM · 377 BARS · BEGINNER
- Down To The Waterline78 BPM · 115 BARS
- Sultans Of Swing Alchemy150 BPM · 379 BARS
- Walk Of Life170 BPM · 161 BARS · BEGINNER
- Once Upon A Time In The West60 BPM · 108 BARS · BEGINNER
- So Far Away114 BPM · 147 BARS · BEGINNER
- Romeo And Juliet86 BPM · 130 BARS · BEGINNER
- Where Do You Think You're Going?76 BPM · 88 BARS
- Six Blade Knife115 BPM · 120 BARS
- Your Latest Trick71 BPM · 183 BARS
- Water Of Love60 BPM · 80 BARS
- Wild West End67 BPM · 77 BARS
- Calling Elvis117 BPM · 126 BARS
- Lions110 BPM · 140 BARS
- Tunnel Of Love Ver. 2138 BPM · 272 BARS
- Tunnel Of Love v2138 BPM · 283 BARS
- Industrial Disease150 BPM · 13 BARS
LEARNING DIRE STRAITS ON DRUMS
22 Dire Straits drum parts are transcribed here, 3,804 bars of music in total, filed under rock, classic rock, 80s and guitar. 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. 21 of these 22 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 "Once Upon A Time In The West" at 60 BPM, the slowest of them, or "Industrial Disease" at 13 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 Dire Straits drum tabs are there?
22 Dire Straits drum charts, each read from a real score and playable along to the record in the browser. 21 of them come with a practice course that breaks the part into exercises and takes each one up to tempo.
Are Dire Straits songs hard to play on drums?
Tempos here run from 60 to 170 BPM. The slowest is "Once Upon A Time In The West" at 60 BPM, and the shortest is "Industrial Disease" at 13 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 Dire Straits songs in?
Most often F major, A major and A minor. The catalogue files them under rock, classic rock, 80s and guitar.