Where Can I Find Good Drum Tabs?
My drum students are constantly lamenting the scarcity of good readable drum tabs on the internet. Like my guitar students, they want to be able to find tabs for their favorite songs and learn them “on their own”. While there are some decent guitar tabs available, the drummers, for the most part, are left out. Let’s explore the making of a drum tab to discover why this problem exists. What Are Drum Tabs? Drum tablature (tab) is a kind of short-hand sheet music for drummers. Drum Tab for the internet is usually written in “acsii text”. Part of the reason that this format is so widely used is that it saves the author the time and money of creating it in a music notation software program. This means that it can be offered free to drummers looking for tabs.The problem is that you often get what you pay for. How Drum Tabs are Written For the most part, the programs that are available to write drum tabs are inherently flawed. They do not provide an easily readable means of notating rhythm. I
