Grateful Dead drum tabs
30 charts, 62-188 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
- 30
- TEMPO
- 62-188 BPM
- BARS IN ALL
- 5,616
- WITH A COURSE
- 25 of 30
- USUAL KEY
- A major
EVERY GRATEFUL DEAD CHART
- Help On The Way/ Slipknot!90 BPM · 166 BARS
- Touch of Grey156 BPM · 238 BARS
- Shakedown Street110 BPM · 48 BARS · BEGINNER
- Eyes Of The World100 BPM · 141 BARS
- Bertha170 BPM · 245 BARS
- Althea166 BPM · 287 BARS
- Fire on the Mountain77 BPM · 72 BARS · BEGINNER
- Deal140 BPM · 162 BARS
- Brown Eyed Women110 BPM · 153 BARS
- Franklin's Tower116 BPM · 189 BARS
- Morning Dew130 BPM · 339 BARS
- Black Muddy River62 BPM · 103 BARS
- He's Gone120 BPM · 267 BARS
- Cumberland Blues120 BPM · 94 BARS
- Row Jimmy104 BPM · 310 BARS
- Wharf Rat115 BPM · 217 BARS
- Ramble on Rose 7/7/89120 BPM · 204 BARS
- Truckin' (Drums)120 BPM · 161 BARS
- Dire Wolf150 BPM · 122 BARS
- Cold Rain and Snow164 BPM · 102 BARS
- Scarlet Begonias82 BPM · 230 BARS
- It Must Have Been The Roses82 BPM · 128 BARS
- Turn On Your Love Light175 BPM · 53 BARS
- Touch Of Grey156 BPM · 193 BARS
- Here Comes Sunshine90 BPM · 105 BARS
- The Other One170 BPM · 654 BARS
- Sugaree128 BPM · 139 BARS
- Beat It On Down The Line170 BPM · 114 BARS
- Jack-A-Roe97 BPM · 120 BARS
- Good Lovin'188 BPM · 260 BARS
LEARNING GRATEFUL DEAD ON DRUMS
30 Grateful Dead drum parts are transcribed here, 5,616 bars of music in total, filed under rock, classic rock, psychedelic rock and psychedelic. 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. 25 of these 30 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 "Black Muddy River" at 62 BPM, the slowest of them, or "Shakedown Street" at 48 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 Grateful Dead drum tabs are there?
30 Grateful Dead drum charts, each read from a real score and playable along to the record in the browser. 25 of them come with a practice course that breaks the part into exercises and takes each one up to tempo.
Are Grateful Dead songs hard to play on drums?
Tempos here run from 62 to 188 BPM. The slowest is "Black Muddy River" at 62 BPM, and the shortest is "Shakedown Street" at 48 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 Grateful Dead songs in?
Most often A major, E major and G major. The catalogue files them under rock, classic rock, psychedelic rock and psychedelic.