DRUM SONGS

Slow drum songs

Thousands of charts, 15 to 89 BPM, averaging 77. 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
15-89 BPM
AVERAGE
77 BPM
MOSTLY
BEGINNER

MOST PLAYED FIRST

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

ABOUT SLOW DRUM SONGS

Under 90 BPM there is room between the notes, and that cuts both ways. A slow song gives you time to read the next bar while you are playing this one, which is why they are where most people start. It also leaves every note exposed: there is nothing to hide a rushed backbeat behind when the beat is this far apart.

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 "Dream Brother" at 15 BPM, the slowest of the songs on this shelf under 90 BPM, or "главная тема 1" 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

Are slow songs easier to play on drums?

Easier to read, harder to hold. The notes arrive slowly enough that you can think about each one, but the gaps between them are where time goes wrong -- a fill that lands early at 70 BPM is obvious in a way it never is at 180. Play these with the record underneath rather than alone, at least at first.

What is a good tempo for a beginner?

Between 70 and 100 BPM for the first month. Slow enough that your hands are not the problem, fast enough that the song still sounds like the record. Every chart on this site plays at any tempo from a quarter of the written one upwards, so you can take a fast song down here rather than only playing slow ones.

How fast are slow drum songs?

From 15 to 89 BPM, averaging 77. 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?

"Dream Brother" by Jeff Buckley at 15 BPM is the slowest, and "a gde sam bio ja" by Zoster at 89 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?

"главная тема 1" by man of suns3t 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.

BY TEMPO

Fast drum songs