DRUM SONGS

Easy drum songs

Thousands of charts, 50 to 280 BPM, averaging 115. Each one is read from a real score: play it along to the record, take it down to any tempo, or work through the course underneath it.

MOST PLAYED

TEMPO
50-280 BPM
AVERAGE
115 BPM
MOSTLY
BEGINNER

MOST PLAYED FIRST

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ABOUT EASY DRUM SONGS

An easy drum song is not a slow one. It is a song whose part repeats: one bar you can learn in ten minutes, held through three verses without changing, with a fill you can count. Everything here comes off the beginner tier of the source catalogue’s own difficulty list, which is ranked by what the part asks of your hands rather than by how famous the record is.

Everything ranked on this shelf sits in the beginner tier of the source catalogue's own difficulty list. Hundreds of hours of playing at the tempos written, all told.

A good place to start is "brutal" at 50 BPM, the slowest of the easiest songs on this shelf, or "Cocaine Cowgirl" at 11 bars, the shortest. Every chart here downloads as sheet music, tab, MIDI and MusicXML if you would rather read it away from the screen.

QUESTIONS

What is the easiest song to learn on drums?

The one whose groove you can play in a single bar and then repeat for three minutes. Almost every song on this shelf is that: the part is one or two bars, the fills are short and land where you expect them, and nothing moves faster than eighth notes on the hand keeping time. Pick one whose record you already know, because knowing where the song is going is half of playing it.

How long before I can play one of these all the way through?

A week of twenty-minute sittings is realistic for the first one, and much less for the second. The hard part of a first song is never the notes; it is holding them steady for three minutes without speeding up. Every chart here plays along to the record, which is the thing that actually fixes that.

How fast are easy drum songs?

From 50 to 280 BPM, averaging 115. That number is where the record sits, not where you have to play it: every chart here runs at any tempo from a quarter of the written one upwards, with the recording following where it can.

What is the slowest and the fastest of them?

"brutal" by Olivia Rodrigo at 50 BPM is the slowest, and "Frogs" by Failure at 280 BPM is the quickest. Neither number is a wall: every chart here plays at any tempo from a quarter of the written one upwards, so the fast ones are learnable at the speed of the slow ones.

Which one is quickest to learn?

"Cocaine Cowgirl" by Matt Mays is the shortest part on this shelf at 11 bars. Short is not the same as easy, but a short part is one you can get all the way through in a sitting, and playing something end to end teaches more than looping the first eight bars of something longer.

BY HOW HARD IT IS

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