Winds/strings have chord charts or scores in jazz and rock, and classical music uses scores for drums and percussion. How do jazz and rock drummers and percussionists chart their parts so that they play the same way each time a song is performed? I’m especially interested for prog rock, where the drum parts can be very detailed and intricate.
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Besides repetition (both inside the song itself and during rehearsals) there is such a thing as sheet music for drums in the non-classical field but that’s more of a learning tool than a consistency thing
Magazines for drummers often contain sheet music for the most interesting parts of certain songs, the same way guitarist magazines have riffs and licks in tab format
Plus there are plenty of online resources like https://thedrumninja.com/drum-transcriptions/
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