How to Find Good Drum Tabs
Drum tabs, short for tablature, are a short-hand way of writing sheet music without having to know notes. This originated from those who couldn't read music but still wanted to write drum beats. Drum tabs are used to figure out how to play the drums to your favorite band's songs. Finding good drum tabs involves some searching but it can be done.
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Go online and check out One Love Drum Tabs. This site has tabs actually written by drummers, which is a big plus. It's completely free, and you'll find all kinds of rock and roll songs tabbed here. For anything from Led Zeppelin to Bad Religion, One Love has tons of tabs.
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Look at MXTabs. Also free, MXTabs has been around for a long time and has tons of tabs created by its users. The cool feature of MXTabs is that users can vote on a tab, so you'll know how good each drum tab is. Drum tabs with five stars are the best and most accurate, so look for those.
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Look at May Music Studio's website. All of these drum tabs were written by a drum teacher using the program Guitar Pro, so they'll look like regular sheet music. You'll find a guide on how to read these on the website as well.
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Check out Drum Bum for a seriously impressive list of drum tab websites. Drum Bum is worth checking out because they have described around 40 drum tab websites, so you'll know what you're going to find at each site. If you're looking for drum tabs from a specific band, Drum Bum will be a good asset to you.
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Go to Guitar Tab World for drum tabs. Search for the artist or song you're looking for, not drum tabs specifically. Then you'll see guitar, bass and drum tabs for the songs people have tabbed. Their selection is extensive though, with over 200,000 free tabs to choose from.
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Print out the tabs you want from your computer and start practicing. If it helps, start by focusing on one or a few of the elements at a time
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Tips & Warnings
If you go to a music store, you might be able to find the actual sheet music of a particular album. These may include drum tabs, so check them out if you see them.
There are a lot of inaccurate drum tabs on the internet, so if you start to play and it sounds wrong, it probably is. Keep looking for a more accurate tab on any of the above sites.
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