Don't You Forget About Me Drums tab video
Simple Minds
Make your own Don't You Forget About Me tab video, freeNo editing. No card. 10 minutes free.- Instrument
- Drums
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Tuning
- —
- Tempo
- 120 BPM
About this riff
The drum part is a steady, mid-tempo 4/4 new wave groove built around a punchy backbeat on 2 and 4 with driving eighth-notes on the hi-hat. It's a great beat for working on consistency, dynamics, and locking in with a click, while the big open-hat accents and tom fills into the choruses give you room to practice simple but effective transitions. Not technically demanding, but keeping it tight and anthemic over the song's length is the real challenge.
Did you know?
Keith Forsey and Steve Schiff wrote the song for The Breakfast Club, but Simple Minds initially turned it down several times before Forsey persuaded them to record it in just a few hours at a London studio. Jim Kerr's only writing contribution was the 'la la la' section near the end, which he intended as a placeholder to replace with real lyrics later—but it stayed in the final recording.
FAQ
Is this the real audio?
The audio is rendered from a high-quality SoundFont (FluidR3), so it plays for real. It is not the original master recording.
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