Ilan Rubin's Stewart Copeland Ride Drum Lesson Transcription

Ilan Rubin has a couple of great lessons on Stewart Copeland cymbal technique on Youtube. The second one covers playing the bell of the ride:

Here's the transcription. It helped us to memorize it:

Kickin' it Root Down

from a house near Westwood & Logan in Toronto

Cream's "Born Under a Bad Sign" Drum Transcription

People have been telling us for years to check out Ginger Baker's drumming with Cream. We finally took a listen to their cover of Born Under a Bad Sign. Simple but remarkably groovin' for a blues standard. Below is a cheat sheet for the gist:

Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar On Me" Drum Transcription Tablature

The first drum line we learned to play was written by a rockin' one-armed drummer, Rick Allen:

Beastie Boys "So What'cha Want" Drum Transcription Tablature

Simple as that. Chad Smith uses a similar off-beat hi-hat feel on The Red Hot Chili Pepper's Funky Monks.

Pre-Fame Beastie Boys from Ed Piskor's Hip Hop Family Tree

The Beastie Boys' original inspiration for this song was the Southside Movement's song I've Been Watching You

Websites with Free Drum Transcriptions

Looking for free transcriptions of the drum parts of popular music?

Here are what we've found so far:

http://thedrumninja.com/drum-transcriptions/
-has a lot for free with video lessons

http://www.drumscore.com/
-has a few for free and a lot more for cheap

https://www.7drumcity.com/drum-transcriptions.html
-has a few for free

https://www.drumstheword.com/blog/how-play-end-drum-solo-beatles-ringo-starr
-has partial transcriptions and video lessons
-you can buy full transcriptions and video lessons as well

http://www.onlinedrummer.com/
-has both lessons and songs

https://robertferrell.com/charts.html
-has both lessons and songs

http://dynamicdrumschool.snappages.com/drum-transcriptions.htm

https://iotatranscriptions.wordpress.com/

-has a bunch such as:

https://iotatranscriptions.wordpress.com/2016/10/02/jack-white-lazaretto-transcription/

https://iotatranscriptions.wordpress.com/2017/01/31/sleater-kinney-the-fox-drumset-transcription/

https://iotatranscriptions.wordpress.com/2017/01/14/soundgarden-superunknown/

https://iotatranscriptions.wordpress.com/2017/01/03/ok-go-here-it-goes-again/

If you know of any other good sites, let us know

Amen.

One of the most sampled drum breaks of all time is the "Amen Break" from The Wintson's song Amen Brother. Its story is oh so elegantly told here:

We found a couple transcriptions of the break online and thought they were a bit off. Here's our take: