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Free chart library 免費鼓譜庫

Your first drum chart is free.

Four original charts in English and 繁體中文, downloadable, printable. Five minutes from opening this page to reading your first chart. No email required to download — the newsletter is optional.

四份原創鼓譜, 中英文對照, 可下載可列印. 從打開網頁到讀懂第一份鼓譜, 五分鐘. 下載不需要留 email, 電子報隨意訂閱.

Backbeat Highway

Basic Rock · ♩=120 · 4/4
The first chart every student plays. Eighth-note hats, backbeat snare, steady bass. The template for the whole library.每個學生的第一份鼓譜. 八分音符 hi-hat, 第 2 與第 4 拍的小鼓 backbeat, 穩定的大鼓. 整套鼓譜庫的母版.
INTRO mm.1-4 | >CR HH HH SD HH | VERSE 1 mm.5-8 | HH HH SD HH HH HH SD HH | CHORUS mm.9-16 | HH HH SD HH HH HH SD HH | x8 OUTRO mm.25-32 | HH HH SD HH >CR r r r | BLANK mm.33-64 | · · · · · · · · · · · |

Velvet Mile

Basic Funk · ♩=100 · 4/4
Sixteenth-note hats, ghost-note snare, syncopated bass. The groove that teaches the most — this is the one that builds independence.十六分音符 hi-hat, ghost note 小鼓, 切分的大鼓. 教得最多的那個 groove, 也是最能訓練獨立性的.
INTRO mm.1-4 | >CR r r r r HHx4 x4 | VERSE 1 mm.5-8 | HHx4 BD-HHx4 r >SD-HH | CHORUS mm.9-16 | HHx4 HH-HH >SD-HH oHH | BLANK mm.33-64 | · · · · · · · · · · · |

Lantern Window

Basic Ballad · ♩=70 · 4/4
Half-time feel, sparse and spacious. Where a lot of students find their own pocket and stop counting.半拍感, 稀疏而有空間. 很多學生在這裡找到自己的節奏, 然後不再數拍子.
INTRO mm.1-4 | >CR ———— SD ———— | VERSE 1 mm.5-8 | BD ———— HH ———— | CHORUS mm.9-16 | HH HH SD HH HH HH SD HH | BLANK mm.33-64 | · · · · · · · · · · · |

Late Night, Two Streets Down

Basic Jazz · ♩=120 · 4/4
Swing ride pattern, walking bass, brushes-feel dynamics. The one that opens the jazz door.Swing 的 ride 節奏, walking bass, 刷子般的動態. 打開爵士那扇門的一首.
INTRO mm.1-4 | >CR R R R R R R R | VERSE 1 mm.5-8 | R R R R BD R SD R | CHORUS mm.9-16 | R R R R BD R SD R x4 | BLANK mm.33-64 | · · · · · · · · · · · |

How the 64-bar form works 64 小節的結構

All four charts use an identical form, so a student who learns one has learned the scaffolding for all of them.

  • INTRO — mm. 1–4 · VERSE 1 — mm. 5–8 · CHORUS — mm. 9–16 · VERSE 2 — mm. 17–24 · OUTRO — mm. 25–32
  • BLANK — mm. 33–64, thirty-two bars left empty for the student to write their own part

The blanks are the teaching signature. They reveal whether a student is genuinely reading the chart or has simply memorised a pattern and is guessing where it goes next.

Newsletter 電子報

Don Chi — Notes on Playing

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每月一封, 我自己寫. 一個技巧附鼓譜, 一件器材的事, 一件家長該知道的事, 加上當月新鼓譜.

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VIDEO — THE CHART WALKTHROUGH
鼓譜教學影片

Don reading the chart aloud and playing it — 90 seconds. This is the flagship video on YouTube and the first email's hero asset.