NEW drum chart method | David Wain

Learn Middle Aged Dad Jam Band drummer David Wain's own system for creating drum charts.

link to full song with notation:

[russellgriffeth]

Hi David, as a drummer for 30 years AND a middle-aged dad myself, I’ve gotta say I’m inspired!
My daughter loves to drum too, we’ve done some lessons, but she is dyslexic and reading traditional music is very challenging. We are trying this method now and it’s working, so thank you for sharing!!

[AlwaysRunningForward]

“Bop M Bop, G’Day Sir, Rutabaga” will now be a drum fill in every song I ever play from this day forth

[lesdavis]

I don’t play drums, but your explanation of how you chart your drumming is fantastic! Thank you!🙏🏻

[JosephTavano]

This is honestly incredible. I've been playing for more than 30 years and have never seen anyone able to translate onto paper a similar technique that I was doing in my head to learn songs. I really love it because it is so expressionistic and driven by the "feel" of the beat and the music. Well done. I'm impressed.

[ninthislandrc]

In a word...brilliant.

Who says music notation has to remain "as it was". Absolutely nothing wrong with coming up with a better system. 👍👍

[xxSLAVxx]

Personally I always wanted to just color code everything out similar to how games like Rock Band and Guitar hero work. It would obviously need to be a little more fleshed out like you have it here. Great work and great idea.

[matthewkelly]

Really enjoying this new content! I’ve been a fan of yours from The State, Stella, Wainy Days, Wet Hot American Summer and all the rest. So glad to have a new David Wain fix 😀

[alexstewart]

This gives a notational system to so much of my thought process while trying to learn pop and pop-adjacent songs!

[FreakedMarinara]

Older musician says wow. Unique and forward looking method.

[panderson]

LOVE the mnemonic drum fills! Banana rutabaga right back to you, sir!

[mundanestuff]

Rutabaga is a paradiddle. Reallly good Innovation here, creating the notes is good instruction, builds the pathways, then practicing the beats cements them in place. Nice. Im a 40ish year rudimental drummer, my shorthand is in the same vein, but using the rudiment names. Really helps teaching newbies because paradididdle left righ paradiddle right left paradiddle paradiddle lesson twenty five is easier than the notation even as simple as the notation is on one line.

[emilybennett]

Thank you, MAD Jammers! Every video is pure joy and this peek behind the curtains makes it even better. I surely hope you can do a show or three near DC, but it still makes me happy to be a subscriber here on YT. Cheers!!

[DamianS]

At first I thought this was a gee up, but it's actually epic!

[mamoruisamu]

I love this! I don’t play drums, but this makes me want to try.

[arothmanmusic]

That's a great system! As a fellow middle-aged dad cover band drummer (and also from Cleveland... Craig's fam), I love the practical innovation. I may have to give this a shot for some of the stuff our group's working on. BTW, how do you like that drum-tec e-kit?

[FrankHablawi]

I think we can all agree that "BaBoom, Tomato!" is our new MADJB fan club greeting.

[genedoc]

This makes a lot of sense. Why should a drum score be forced into the format of a melodic instrument? I wonder if this is something other rock drummers (John Bonham, Keith Moon, Don Henley, etc.) ever thought of?

[RagaBopHepCat]

🎶 Ha! (Rudabega, BaBOOM ToMAto! Banana-Butta!) 🎵 🎶🎵

[Roeming]

This is great! I'd love to know how easy it is to write in this format? Is there an easy way to swap between important fonts and colors that ive been missing in google docs for years?

[keithr]

For that 1% that does not fit on one page, how do you change the page? Do you size the text such that the page break is at a convenient point in the score? Do you just reach over to a tablet and press the screen?