Welcome to the Drum Transcription Vault!

Drum set sheet music is a bit harder to find than guitar tabs, so we've been just making our own transcriptions through the years to help our students. All tabs are free to share and download since we wrote them ourselves - just click on the song link. 

These are designed to be used in lessons and for ease of reading and understanding so you can have fun playing the song as easily as possible. 

Full Transcriptions by Song Title:
12:51 -- The Strokes
21 Guns -- Green Day
A-W-E-S-O-M-E -- Reel Big Fish
American Woman -- Lenny Kravitz
Blister In The Sun -- Violent Femmes
Bohemian Like You -- The Dandy Warhols
Brain Stew -- Green Day
Bulls On Parade -- Rage Against The Machine
Californication -- Red Hot Chili Peppers
Can't Stop -- Red Hot Chili Peppers
Day Tripper -- The Beatles
Dazed & Confused -- Led Zeppelin
Don't Look Back In Anger -- Oasis
Elephant -- Tame Impala
Fly By Night -- Rush
Fortunate Son -- Credence Clearwater Revival
Generator -- Foo Fighters (written by a student!)
Go With The Flow -- Queens of the Stone Age
Good Times Bad Times -- Led Zeppelin *new*
In Bloom -- Nirvana
Iris -- Goo Goo Dolls
Kashmir -- Led Zeppelin
Loving Cup -- The Rolling Stones
Magazines -- Brand New
Magic Carpet Ride -- Steppenwolf
Man In The Box -- Alice In Chains
Nowhere Man -- The Beatles
Over The Falls -- Primus
Paradise City -- Guns N' Roses
Power of Equality -- Red Hot Chili Peppers 
Red Barchetta -- Rush
Red House -- Jimi Hendrix
Sail -- Awolnation
Say It Ain't So -- Weezer
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band -- The Beatles
Son's Gonna Rise -- Citizen Cope
Steady As She Goes -- The Raconteurs *new*
Strip My Mind -- Red Hot Chili Peppers *new*
Take Me Out -- Franz Ferdinand *new*
The Distance -- Cake
Time Consumer -- Coheed & Cambria
Tom Sawyer -- Rush
Two Princes -- Spin Doctors
When The Levee Breaks -- Led Zeppelin
Where Is My Mind -- The Pixies

Partial Transcriptions
6:00 -- Dream Theater
Because I Do -- X
Donner Party (All Night) -- Alkaline Trio
Funky Drummer Beat -- Clyde Stubblefield
Halo -- Porcupine Tree
I Know -- Helmet
La La Love You -- The Pixies
The City -- Dismemberment Plan
The Mirror -- Dream Theater
Today -- Smashing Pumpkins
Warped -- Red Hot Chili Peppers
Well Respected Man -- The Kinks
Y Control -- Yeah Yeah Yeahs

How to Read Drum Music

Quick refresher on how to read drum music

Terminology Mystery Revealed:

Drum "tabs" (from "tablature") refer to this kind of notation, with the dashes and x's and o's. This is like a free shortcut way of writing beats without any software. However, "tab" IS a nice nickname for "transcription"... 

Drum Tab

Drum "transcriptions" use actual notes and traditional musical notation. Each line on the staff delineates a different drum or cymbal.

Drum Transcription

Drum "charts" can also mean transcriptions, but often refer to an abbreviated transcription that a session drummer might use to remember the structure and important pieces of an arrangement.

Drum Chart