Question

How do You read notes on a drum sheet?

Answer 1

depends. it will usually tell you which note on the staff represents each drum.

Answer 2

@Lanijavie

Answer 3

Like, xx, r,l, I don't know those stuff. @foolofatook

Answer 4

i play the drums and its actually easy

Answer 5

Please teach me how to read notes haha.

Answer 6

@elite

Answer 7

You don't read notes for percussion instruments, you read rhythms. If you are playing a percussion instrument with multiple people, the music will look like this

You would be assigned a specific line which only you would read. For the notes themselves...

In the first picture, the first one gets four counts, the second set of notes gets two, and the last gets one. The first being a whole note, the second a half note, and the third a quarter note. In the second picture, the first set of notes, eighth notes, gets half a count each, usually counted as "One and two and." The second set of notes, sixteenth notes, have an extra line, giving them a fourth of a beat each. Every time a line is added, the note length is divided by two. Most beginner music, especially American, is written in time signature 4/4, meaning there are four beats in a measure, and the quarter note gets the beat. You can count however fast or slow you want. Time is measured in beats per minute. the higher the beats per minute, the faster you have to count.