I kinda need this help in a hurry, by friday night.
Me and my friend play guitar, and we jsut got the help of my other friend, who is a drummer. Except, theres one big problem, he doens't reeally know how to play good and whatever songs we do play, he cant find out what the drum parts is.
Then I remembered that Guitar Pro 4 has drum tabs, so I sent him the file. The drums are there, but they are represented by numbers, how can my friend decode these so he can play them?
Would it be hard at all?
Waiting in anticipation 8)
BlackZero
Whenever I need a drum tab I just search in google. Most of them use the letter of the drum or cymber just like a guitar string in tab. Then a symbol (not cymbal :-D) for how to hit it.
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Interesting, but how can I decode the numbers in GP 4 becuase, there you can play the file, and hear the part also
there is an option on the drum tabs that explain what every one of them are...
there is a button on the top called percussion (hold mouse over every one of them till you find it)
and click it.. and it will give you a table of like...
36 - Bass Drum 1
37 - Side Stick
38 - Acoustic Snare..
etc.
thanks alot alex
Can someone tell me the names of the pieces on a 5 piece standard drum set?
MXTabs is the main drum tab site...they have a guide to reading drum tabs and include a key on drum/cymbal names and abbreviations:
http://www.mxtabs.net/content.php?file=Reading_Drum_Tabs
I generally use drum notation not tab, though I sometimes start from tab. I even wrote some software, which I never completely finished, that converts drum tab to a format that notation software can use to display music. Anyway, I pretty much usually use the same key that Modern Drummer uses (which is similar to what the book "Guide To Standardized Drum Notation" uses).
R.C (Ride Cymbal)
C.C. (Crash Cymbal)
H.H. (Hight Hat)
T.T. (Tom Tom - rack)
S.D. (Snare Drum)
F.T. (Floor Tom)
B.D. (Bass Drum)
Tab will usually be
Rd (Ride Cymbal)
C (Crash Cymbal)
H (Hi Hat)
t (Small Tom - rack)
T (Medium Tom - rack)
S (Snare Drum)
F (Floor Tom)
F2 (2nd Floor Tom)
B (Bass-Drum)
Hf (Hi Hat - w/foot)
Notation will have different size toms on different lines/spaces, but tab will use different abbreviations as well as different notation for the type of stroke used. All that should be at the MXTabs site.
very helpful, Ill use that too
however, im still looking for like a picture diagram of a 5 piece standard drum set listing the names of pieces
Here's on with two rack toms and one floor tom.
http://www.gregggerson.com/Greggpages/GGkit.html
Sometimes a five-piece set will have one rack and two floors toms.
thank you very much, it seems like youre the only one on GN who knows about drums :lol:
thank you very much, it seems like youre the only one on GN who knows about drums :lol:
You're welome blackzerogsh...though I've played guitar more years than I care to admit, I started out as a drummer, and still play when I can.
