DRUM SONGS

Songs for a small kit

Thousands of charts, 45 to 270 BPM, averaging 120. 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
45-270 BPM
AVERAGE
120 BPM
MOSTLY
BEGINNER

MOST PLAYED FIRST

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

ABOUT SONGS FOR A SMALL KIT

Most people learn on less kit than the record was made with, and most charts pretend otherwise. These are the songs whose parts use four drums or fewer -- a kick, a snare, something to keep time on and perhaps one tom. Not simplified versions: the part as it was played, on a kit that happens to be small.

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 "главная тема 1" at 45 BPM, the slowest of the songs on this shelf that use four drums or fewer, or "1000X" 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

What songs can I play on a four-piece kit?

More than you would think. This shelf is every song in the catalogue whose part never asks for more than four drums, worked out from the notes rather than from what the drummer owned. Each chart lists the pieces it uses before you open it.

Can I learn drums without a full kit?

Yes, and for the first year the missing toms cost you almost nothing. A kick, a snare and a hi-hat play the grooves that carry most records; what a bigger kit adds is somewhere for fills to go. Start here and add drums when a song you want needs them.

How fast are songs for a small kit?

From 45 to 270 BPM, averaging 120. 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?

"главная тема 1" by man of suns3t at 45 BPM is the slowest, and "My Boss" by Anti Crap at 270 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?

"1000X" by Ghea Indrawari 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 FEEL AND KIT

Shuffle and triplet drum songs