How to Read Drum Notation

Want to learn to read drum music? Reading drum music is actually pretty simple if you know how to get started. Many people buy a drum book with high hopes, will give up trouble with the first page or two are, then. When I started playing drums, which I did, but I have something to share ... You can learn to read drum notation, well if you take these three simple tips to heart.

Learn to count. We've all seen Sesame Street, but I'm talking about Learn the relationship between quarter notes, eighth, eighth and sixteenth note triplets. Notes, and triplets entire neighborhood is not nearly as often as a half-drum music, then I recommend this to begin with. Begin to count quarter notes on the high-hat 4.4 (four beats, and the district gets the beat) 1,2,3,4. For the last sixteen quarters are strong and are still playing on the hi hat .. 1 and 2 and 3 and 4, and (2 / 8 = 1> Quarterly). The counter is one of triplets and one, 2 and 3 and a 4 and a (3 = a quarter). Finally, the count is a sixteenth of E and A, 2 E and A, E and 3 A, 4 ee a ( 4 = fourth). The smallest division is to determine the counting device you use. For example, if there should be a hit with the other two eighths and quarters, eighths, it was ... 1 and 2 and 3 and 4.

There should be a section of the bookHe has a chart that shows what the notes look like. Crotchets are vertical, consisting of a black circle with a stem that goes out there know that these two quavers, that the horizontal line at the top are connected by one. Triplets are well made, but they have 3 notes instead of 3 They also have a second on the team notes, with or without brackets. sixteenths, four notes together. The way they are easily distinguishable, iswith two horizontal lines instead of one.

Check the button on the front or back of the book in which everyone is for Drum / pool on the staff. I can start in this article. The "X" above the top line of the staff of Hi-hats. Just south of it in the middle, the top line is running. The snare is on the central square of the staff. The last of the symbols is the simple case that is in the space below staff. Some books drum vary slightlybut this is the most common.