X JAPAN drum tabs
23 charts, 70-222 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
- 23
- TEMPO
- 70-222 BPM
- BARS IN ALL
- 5,561
- WITH A COURSE
- 21 of 23
- USUAL KEY
- Eb minor
EVERY X JAPAN CHART
- Kurenai70 BPM · 165 BARS · ADVANCED
- Silent Jealousy105 BPM · 300 BARS · ADVANCED
- Endless Rain78 BPM · 106 BARS
- Week End172 BPM · 247 BARS
- Art Of Life75 BPM · 764 BARS · ADVANCED
- Rusty Nail175 BPM · 233 BARS
- Sadistic Desire190 BPM · 245 BARS
- X178 BPM · 255 BARS · ADVANCED
- Rose Of Pain80 BPM · 354 BARS
- Dahlia175 BPM · 336 BARS · ADVANCED
- X Tab178 BPM · 255 BARS
- Blue Blood Live180 BPM · 181 BARS
- Silent Jealousy ('92 Live)187 BPM · 220 BARS
- Sadistic Desire190 BPM · 272 BARS
- endless rain ver178 BPM · 103 BARS
- Standing Sex175 BPM · 186 BARS
- Scars160 BPM · 193 BARS
- Alive75 BPM · 127 BARS
- ROSE OF PAIN150 BPM · 366 BARS
- Orgasm197 BPM · 126 BARS · ADVANCED
- Stab Me In The Back200 BPM · 189 BARS
- Xclamation108 BPM · 96 BARS
- Easy Fight Rambling222 BPM · 242 BARS
LEARNING X JAPAN ON DRUMS
23 X JAPAN drum parts are transcribed here, 5,561 bars of music in total, filed under j-rock, japanese, visual kei and heavy metal. 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 23 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 "Kurenai" at 70 BPM, the slowest of them, or "Xclamation" at 96 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 X JAPAN drum tabs are there?
23 X JAPAN 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 X JAPAN songs hard to play on drums?
Tempos here run from 70 to 222 BPM. The slowest is "Kurenai" at 70 BPM, and the shortest is "Xclamation" at 96 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 X JAPAN songs in?
Most often Eb minor, Ab minor and A minor. The catalogue files them under j-rock, japanese, visual kei and heavy metal.