![]() ![]() This piece is a great way to explain how drum sheet music works, as it uses a very simple rhythm with multiple different surfaces. ![]() Take this example ( automatically starts at 1:24) of a basic rock beat. Now, let’s get into more visual representations and the basic rock beat. The bottom number indicates the value of each beat – meaning that if there are 4 beats then each beat is a quarter note. This is where the bottom number comes in. The concept of counting and beats is simple, for example, a whole note (4 beats) means that when played lasts the entire phrase – meaning 4 seconds long and so on for each of the others. Sixteenth Note: Lasts 1/4 beat (a sixteenth of the phrase). Quarter Note: Lasts 1 beat (a quarter of the phrase).Įighth Note: Lasts 1/2 beat (an eighth of the phrase). Half Note: Lasts 2 beats (half of the phrase). Whole Note: Lasts 4 beats (the entire phrase). Without going into too much detail, there are many different notes but we will focus on the most common ones and those are the whole note, the half note, the quarter note, the eighth note, and the sixteenth note.To explain the concept of note values in the simplest way, if we set each up in a 4/4 time signature and use counting then each note would be like this: We’ll explain it at a high level and then you can watch and listen to the examples below. To further understand how to read drum sheet music, you must first learn what type of notes there are and how they work. each of them take up a quarter of a bar), so each stroke will be exactly on the beat, alternating between the bass and snare drum. The below bar contains 4 notes, these are quarter notes (i.e. The vast majority of music is written in this time signature and it’s easy to clap along to. If we take 4/4 as an example, the top number (4) tells how many beats occupy a particular bar. Time signatures are written at the start of the line (left), with the most common one being 4/4. Now that you know what it looks like, let’s go over a few other crucial points. ![]() Note the legend below has ‘electric snare’ written below, but this note applies to both acoustic and electric snares! Note: Drum parts are written as dots/notes and cymbals are written as ‘x’ (as you can see below). I’ve included most of them below, but in most cases you can ignore many of the extra percussion instruments (tambourine, wood block, etc!) for starters unless you plan to use them. The drums and cymbals are arranged in the following order on the staff, roughly with lower pitched drums being lower down on the staff. Within these 5 lines, you would see notes placed on different heights of the line. The easiest way to approach is to first remember that like any piece of sheet music, there is the staff, which is the 5 lines. Without further ado, let’s dive in! Reading Drum Sheet Music – The Basics Understanding the Staff Once you get a bit of a context of how to read sheet music, then you can quickly get moving from there. You can learn the details of music theory later. In this article, I’m going to show you the basic approach and an example rather than driving you away with heavy music theory stuff. I’m a real ‘learn by doing’ guy, and many drummers are also. After that, it’s just a matter of practice! For drums, all you need is to grasp the basics of music notation and a few examples to get started. It’s pretty easy to learn the basics of drum sheet music.
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