DRUM SONGS

Pop drum songs

Thousands of charts, 30 to 350 BPM, averaging 119. 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
30-350 BPM
AVERAGE
119 BPM
MOSTLY
BEGINNER

MOST PLAYED FIRST

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

ABOUT POP DRUM SONGS

Pop 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. A lot of these parts were programmed rather than played, and the charts say so by how exact the placement is.

Beginner, intermediate and advanced parts are all here on the source catalogue's own difficulty tiers, with beginner 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 "Where The Streets Have No Name" at 30 BPM, the slowest of the pop songs on this shelf, or "Behet Ghol Midam" 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

Are pop songs good for beginners?

Very. The structure is regular, the tempo rarely moves, and the part usually repeats for the whole song with a fill at each join. That is the shape a first song should have. Sort this shelf by easiest first and start near the top.

How do I play a programmed drum part on a real kit?

Play what is written and let the small inaccuracies happen; they are what makes it sound like a person. Where a programmed part asks for something no human has limbs for, the chart shows it as written and the simplified version takes it down to what two hands and two feet can do.

How fast are pop drum songs?

From 30 to 350 BPM, averaging 119. 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?

"Where The Streets Have No Name" by U2 at 30 BPM is the slowest, and "Chiksilog" by Kamikazee 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?

"Behet Ghol Midam" by Mohsen Yeganeh 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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