Drum songs

Thousands of charts, every one read from a real score and playable against the record. These are the shelves they sort into.

BY HOW HARD IT IS

Easy drum songsAn easy drum song is not a slow one.Hard drum songsThese are the parts that were written to be difficult, or that became difficult because of what the rest of the band was doing.

BY TEMPO

Slow drum songsUnder 90 BPM there is room between the notes, and that cuts both ways.Fast drum songsAt 150 BPM and above the difficulty stops being what to play and becomes whether your hands can do it for three minutes.

BY GENRE

Rock drum songsThe biggest shelf here, and the one most people learn on.Metal drum songsHeavy, thrash, death, black, power, doom and everything filed beside them.Punk drum songsPunk is the fastest simple drumming there is.Jazz and blues drum songsHere the beat is split in three rather than in two, and the time is kept on the ride rather than the hi-hat.Funk and soul drum songsFunk is the genre where what you leave out matters more than what you play.Pop drum songsPop drumming is written to stay out of the way, which makes it some of the most useful material to learn on: the grooves are clean, the arrangements are predictable, and the fills arrive exactly where you expect them.Easy rock drum songsThe shelf most first drummers actually want: rock records everybody knows, filtered down to the ones whose parts a beginner can hold together.Hard metal drum songsThe metal parts at the top of the difficulty list: sustained double kick, blast beats, meters that move under you, and parts that do not repeat for a page at a time.

BY FEEL AND KIT

Shuffle and triplet drum songsA shuffle splits every beat into three instead of two.Songs for a small kitMost people learn on less kit than the record was made with, and most charts pretend otherwise.