Anyone got any advice/tips for a newbie to the drums? Any help is appreciated! Maybe some easy Coldplay drum tabs ;)

hey! glad to see another drummer on the forums. :)

 

if you can, get an instructor--he'll teach you some rudiments and some basics that can get you started. :D

 

and Coldplay is a great band to start playing a long with. most Coldplay songs have very simple drum beats which are easy to pick up, imo. if you have any trouble with a coldplay (or any song for that matter), i'll tab out the beat for you. :)

im self taught and all you got to do is practic really, coldplays beats are simple, like alyssa said, easy to start with.

im self taught and all you got to do is practic really' date=' coldplays beats are simple, like alyssa said, easy to start with.[/quote']

 

heh, i'm kinda self taught also--i have an instructor, but... uh... he doesn't help much. and i'm too shy to quit and get another instructor.

:cool: At the moment I am practicing/playing along to Disturbed.pretty hard :lol:

from the top of my head, yellow's the easiest coldplay song, it's practically the standard beat. so it shouldn't take too long to get your head around.

 

i don't know how new you are to the drums, so maybe if you let us know how long you have been playing for, even if it's only like 1 week, and what you can do so far, or whether you are completely new to it.

 

and can you read tabs? if so, here is the tab to yellow. http://www.all-good-tabs.com/drum-tabs-bands-coldplay-yellow-39667.html

 

:) good luck.

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oh wicked!!!! other drummers!!! im also self - taught and like the others said coldplay beats are simple

Thanks for all the helps goys and gals!!! what about tuning the snare drum?? my snare drum sounds horrible!

 

H |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|

S |----o-------o---|

B |o-o-----o-o-----|

(1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + )

 

is the 1+2 etc the timing of the beat?

Thanks for all the helps goys and gals!!! what about tuning the snare drum?? my snare drum sounds horrible!

 

H |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|

S |----o-------o---|

B |o-o-----o-o-----|

(1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + )

 

is the 1+2 etc the timing of the beat?

 

yeah those are just the counts. :) that doesn't line up that well though. if you're making a tab on a forum you should put it in code tags, like so

 

HH|X-x-X-x-X-x-X-x-|X-x-X-x-X-x-X-o-|X-x-X-x-X-x-X-x-|X-x-X-x-X-----o-|
S |----o-------o---|----o-------o---|----o-------o---|----o-----f-f---|
B |o------oo-o--o--|o------oo-o--o--|o------oo-o--o--|o------oo----oo-|
 |1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a|1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a| 

I play drums since a short time also :) I teach it myself a bit and i get some instructions by the drummer in my band :)

I can drum yellow with some fills and clocks a bit :) :D

But to drum is very very cool :)

Any tips on muffling the drums??

Question for the drummers in here. My friend wants to know weather the age of drums will effect the sound that they make. He is considering getting a used set from ebay.

Presumably they wear with use over time, but is there an obvious change in sound quality?