DRUM SONGS

Easy rock drum songs

Thousands of charts, 50 to 232 BPM, averaging 116. 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
50-232 BPM
AVERAGE
116 BPM
MOSTLY
BEGINNER

MOST PLAYED FIRST

The whole shelf, where you can narrow it further or sort it easiest first.

ABOUT EASY ROCK DRUM SONGS

The shelf most first drummers actually want: rock records everybody knows, filtered down to the ones whose parts a beginner can hold together. One groove, a fill at each join, a tempo that stays where it started. These are songs to learn whole rather than exercises to get through.

Everything ranked on this shelf sits in the beginner tier of the source catalogue's own difficulty list. Tens 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 rock 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 rock song should a beginner drummer learn first?

Something with one groove, a tempo under 120, and a chorus you already know. That describes a good deal of this shelf. What matters more than the choice is playing it end to end with the record rather than looping the first eight bars forever.

How many rock songs do I need before I can play with other people?

Three or four you can hold without thinking. Bands do not need a drummer who knows fifty songs; they need one who does not speed up. Learn a few of these properly, all the way through, at the record’s tempo.

How fast are easy rock drum songs?

From 50 to 232 BPM, averaging 116. 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 "Roller Coaster" by blink-182 at 232 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.

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