Without Notes/Tabs How to Play?

[MusicPebbles]

Hi guys, i've noticed that there are VERY little drum tabs online or even None.
SO i want to ask how do u guys learn songs? by listening? watching utube? i guess thats the only way... what if its a damn hard song with super fast fills and lots of variations?

 

[singaporean]

listen over and over again until the drum lines get stuck in your head .
air drum or watch youtube covers when necessary .
dont forget to practice in a studio with your mates to get the real feel of it .

 

[Jugman]

+1 to singaporean.

that's mainly how i practice too. if you can't manage to follow everything correctly, IMPROVISE!

 

[caijunlong]

Pen down the parts! If you don't know standard notation can just use anything to represent it first. Just put it in a way that you can understand. Learning relies on senses. Train both your visual and hearing.

 

[Schtauffen]

Alot of relevant answers in here
http://soft.com.sg/forum/how-drums/100716-memorisng-remember-drum-parts.html

 

[bigblackbear]

i used to transcribe and write my own tabs like once or twice but it got really tedious. so now it's just a matter of playing with feel and listening and looking at covers on youtube. seems to work well for me

 

[Girlpants]

Yeah man, I will replay the song over and over and over again till it's stucked to my head. Then air drum and visualise helps too!

 

[monsterous]

Same here - first i will print out the lyrics. Then i will play the song and listen to verse, chorus, bridge or prechorus. Pen down the rhytem only. Then tackle the fill in parts.

You might be surprise most pop songs on 4/4 signature has pretty simple rhytem. Key challenge is to keep your timing. I pen down by writing drums notes on music book..

Cheers

 

[kawerty]

erm,the best that always worked for me was to interpret the song and its drum style like a classical song and imrovise it slightly,whilst listening the the original song,and play it just to make sure its not that differ from the original one.

But i dunno why,everytime i play it,even with 2-3 imrovised parts,my band would just ask me why never see tabs,and i would tell them this :
Guitarist sees and memorises tabs;For melody of the song,to be in pitch/tune with other guitars/bass.(Pros: Further improvisation like bending will be added according to the guitarist)
Bassist sees and memorises tab;Background rhythm for overall music,acts like a spine.(Pros: Can add additional notes and change rhythm)
Drummer sees tab;For the 'No feel' robotic beat everyone else is playing. (Pros: exact carbon copy of the song)*FAIL!*

 

[mumudrum]

i use to look at tabs when i was beginner. but realise they are hardly challenge for me. so i started playing song by hearing and i keep doing that. you need to hear alot of time too so you get the beat in your head. over a a few years later i can listen to hard/fast song and get roughly 80-90% of the drumbeat accuratly only in half an hour or more depends on duration. and you can put your own awesome drum fills. it doesnt matter how fast anyway. its the matter of how you get use to it.

 

[Ali_80]

TS,
There's drum tabs in Guitar pro..
Go to www.ultimate-guitar.com and download the songs for Guitar Pro.
If you buy Guitar Pro software,you can open it...
There will be lots of instrument tabs like Guitar,Bass,Percussion,Saxophone and all kinds~~
But for me,if playing drums,using your ears is the easiest.
Improvise and you're done..
MusicPebbles,I thought you are a guitarist?
This thread is so old.I bet you have learnt much by now!