DRUM SONGS

Metal drum songs

Thousands of charts, 20 to 350 BPM, averaging 136. 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: 20-350 BPM
AVERAGE: 136 BPM
MOSTLY: ADVANCED

MOST PLAYED FIRST

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

ABOUT METAL DRUM SONGS

Heavy, thrash, death, black, power, doom and everything filed beside them. Metal drumming asks for two things rock does not: speed held for whole songs rather than bars, and feet that work independently of hands. The charts here are read off real scores, double kick and blast beats written where they were actually played.

Beginner, intermediate and advanced parts are all here on the source catalogue's own difficulty tiers, with advanced the largest of them. Most of the shelf has not been through that ranking at all, which is true of two thirds of this catalogue and is why the difficulty filter is something you turn on rather than something applied for you. Hundreds of hours of playing at the tempos written, all told.

A good place to start is "Gutter Ballet" at 20 BPM, the slowest of the metal songs on this shelf, or "Adrénaline" at 10 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

Do I need a double pedal for metal?

For a lot of it, yes -- but not for all of it, and not for the first year. Plenty of what is on this shelf is single-kick metal played quickly. Each chart lists the pieces the part uses, so you can filter by what you own rather than finding out four bars in.

How do I learn a blast beat?

Slowly, and hands first. The limbs alternate faster than you can think about them, so the only way in is to play the pattern at a speed where you can hear each note land, then raise it a few BPM at a time. The practice course on these charts builds that ladder for you off the bar’s own difficulty.

How fast are metal drum songs?

From 20 to 350 BPM, averaging 136. 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?

"Gutter Ballet" by Savatage at 20 BPM is the slowest, and "…And Justice for All My Loving" by Beatallica at 350 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?

"Adrénaline" by Pleymo is the shortest part on this shelf at 10 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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