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What are Drum Tabs? Basically, drumtabs are a form of sheet music for drummers. Think of it as shorthand to standardized drum notation. Drum Tab form is also usually written in acsii text. This saves the author the time and money of creating it in a music notation software or creating images through photocopying written pages.
It is usually recommended that drummers learn to read music correctly through formal instruction (college, private lessons), but many drummers don't want to take the time and they've come to rely on drumtabs as their primary form of reading drum music and transcribing drum parts for songs.
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DrumTabs
Sites... you'll find at Drum Tabs Database:
Drum Tab Hall, Nirvana Drum Tabs Archive, Tabcrawler, MxTabs, Drummers Mecca, Tab Trax, All Drum Tabs, The Tab World, GoogleTabs, Drumtab Decoder, Ttabs.com, Tabworld Online, Wiki Tabs, |
It's worth noting... that some drum tabs are written closer to standard notation form, but they will emit bars of time or will have short notes written off to the side to tell the drummer what to do instead of notating it. Here is an example of a drumtab part written in standardized notation, but still taking some shortcuts:
*Notice
that the format of the text is off a bit, capitalization is missing, and
"bass" is spelled "base".
This is an example of how drumtabs are often written by amateurs. Caution
must be taken!
Stay tuned for more on how to read drum tabs and tablature notation.
Symbols - How to Read Drum Tabs
