Godspeed You! Black Emperor drum tabs
5 charts, 48-100 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.
- CHARTS
- 5
- TEMPO
- 48-100 BPM
- BARS IN ALL
- 976
- WITH A COURSE
- 4 of 5
- USUAL KEY
- Bb major
EVERY GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR CHART
LEARNING GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR ON DRUMS
5 Godspeed You! Black Emperor drum parts are transcribed here, 976 bars of music in total, filed under post-rock, chamber music, drone and field recording. 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. 4 of these 5 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 "Static" at 48 BPM, the slowest of them, or "Sleep" at 22 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 Godspeed You! Black Emperor drum tabs are there?
5 Godspeed You! Black Emperor drum charts, each read from a real score and playable along to the record in the browser. 4 of them come with a practice course that breaks the part into exercises and takes each one up to tempo.
Are Godspeed You! Black Emperor songs hard to play on drums?
Tempos here run from 48 to 100 BPM. The slowest is "Static" at 48 BPM, and the shortest is "Sleep" at 22 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 Godspeed You! Black Emperor songs in?
Most often Bb major, Bb minor and E major. The catalogue files them under post-rock, chamber music, drone and field recording.