DRUM SONGS

Punk drum songs

Thousands of charts, 40 to 300 BPM, averaging 139. 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
40-300 BPM
AVERAGE
139 BPM
MOSTLY
INTERMEDIATE

MOST PLAYED FIRST

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

ABOUT PUNK DRUM SONGS

Punk is the fastest simple drumming there is. The parts are short, the grooves repeat, and almost all of the difficulty is in holding a very quick eighth note steady while the guitars do nothing to help you. It is also the genre where the fills are shortest, which makes these good first fast songs.

Beginner, intermediate and advanced parts are all here on the source catalogue's own difficulty tiers, with intermediate 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. Tens of hours of playing at the tempos written, all told.

A good place to start is "Who Was in My Room Last Night?" at 40 BPM, the slowest of the punk songs on this shelf, or "Dancing Barefoot" 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

Is punk easy to play on drums?

Easy to read, hard to sustain. A punk groove is often one bar you could play in your sleep at 100 BPM, and the song plays it at 190 for two and a half minutes. Start at half speed and work up -- what you are training is stamina, not coordination.

What is a d-beat?

A fast one-bar pattern with the kick pushed off the beat, named for the bands that made it standard. It sits under a great deal of hardcore and is worth having in your hands as one thing rather than as four separate limbs. Several songs on this shelf are built on it.

How fast are punk drum songs?

From 40 to 300 BPM, averaging 139. 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?

"Who Was in My Room Last Night?" by Butthole Surfers at 40 BPM is the slowest, and "Chemically Altered" by Municipal Waste at 300 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?

"Dancing Barefoot" by Patti Smith 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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