Learn how to read special symbols for drum notation, including half-open HiHat, open HiHat, Ghostnotes, Sidesticks, Accents, Buzz Strokes, F

If you notate music for drumset, you have to define which line of your staff corresponds with which instrument of your drumset. This allocation is usually referred to as a drumkey. However, you may not have considered the fact that most of the drumkeys out there seem to be pretty random - or just being different for the sake of being different. So let's take a closer look at the three main drumkeys and why they still make by far the most sense if you're writing drum sheet mus