Sade drum tabs
12 charts, 80-200 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
- 12
- TEMPO
- 80-200 BPM
- BARS IN ALL
- 1,363
- WITH A COURSE
- 10 of 12
- USUAL KEY
- A minor
EVERY SADE CHART
- Smooth Operator120 BPM · 127 BARS · INTERMEDIATE
- Paradise200 BPM · 155 BARS
- Kiss of Life98 BPM · 100 BARS · BEGINNER
- Smooth Operator (per Nuccione)117 BPM · 124 BARS
- Hang On To Your Love107 BPM · 121 BARS
- No Ordinary Love83 BPM · 149 BARS
- Your love is king90 BPM · 85 BARS
- Never As Good As The First Time108 BPM · 105 BARS
- Smooth Operator - Official - 1984120 BPM · 124 BARS
- Cherish The Day - Official - 199380 BPM · 89 BARS
- Cherish The Day80 BPM · 110 BARS
- Love Is Found90 BPM · 74 BARS
LEARNING SADE ON DRUMS
12 Sade drum parts are transcribed here, 1,363 bars of music in total, filed under sophisti-pop, soul, contemporary r&b and smooth soul. 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. 10 of these 12 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 "Cherish The Day - Official - 1993" at 80 BPM, the slowest of them, or "Love Is Found" at 74 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 Sade drum tabs are there?
12 Sade drum charts, each read from a real score and playable along to the record in the browser. 10 of them come with a practice course that breaks the part into exercises and takes each one up to tempo.
Are Sade songs hard to play on drums?
Tempos here run from 80 to 200 BPM. The slowest is "Cherish The Day - Official - 1993" at 80 BPM, and the shortest is "Love Is Found" at 74 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 Sade songs in?
Most often A minor, C minor and A major. The catalogue files them under sophisti-pop, soul, contemporary r&b and smooth soul.