All Drum Notation Symbols

This master drum key isnt exhaustive meaning that we didnt include every possible notation that you might encounter.

Game drum. A measure is a slice of time in which the fundamental rhythm of the music repeats although the notes are not generally the same. Perhaps for one fill you can use the symbols to indicate toms one two and three. For simple parts for example a kick and snare pattern a 1 or 2.

In some cases symbols provide information about the form of a piece eg how many repeats of a section or about how to play the note eg with violin family instruments a. This lesson is intended to give you a quick overview of all the drum notation symbols used on this website. Reading drum notation bass.

Many notators have created their own symbols in an effort to cater for the huge array of percussion instruments and techniques. The bass drum is typically the biggest drum on. You can think of this page as a drum key or legend for all the different drum set voices that you play within beats fills and solo patterns.

The first thing youll see written on the staff is the clef. Everything you need to know about drum notes and drum score collected in a handy drum notation guide. Notation for the floor tom sits in the third space from the top of the staff.

Toms are notated. The time signature indicates how much time and how many beats are is in a measure. Weve included the most commonly used notations and symbols.

The floor tom or low tom is. However you can feel free to be creative with most tom tom patterns and break them up over whatever drums you want. In fact clearly understanding this musical language is a drumming superpower.

By brad schlueter. The drumpercussion clef looks like a vertical rectangle and is used with non pitched percussion instruments. Notation for the bass drum sits in the bottom space of the staff.

Unfortunately standard drum notation does not have symbols for these additional drums. In music and drum notation each measure is separated by a vertical line. The 44 symbol on the left is called a time signature.

All of our premium sheet music includes a song specific drum key on the top of the first page for each song. Tom 1 and tom 2. Musical symbols are marks and symbols used since about the 13th century in musical notation of musical scoressome are used to notate pitch tempo metre duration and articulation of a note or a passage of music.

Music is written on a music staff which features five parallel horizontal lines.