[2026] Practice Songs for Beginner Drummers: Easy and Cool Recommendations
Many people who have just started playing the drums may be wondering which songs they should practice first.
If you don’t know how difficult the song you’re trying to tackle is, it’s hard to make steady progress.
So in this article, we’re introducing songs recommended for beginners who have just taken up the drums—tracks that will help you step up your skills.
We’ve picked a wide range, from the latest hits to timeless classics.
Of course, improvement comes from steady practice and developing your feel and technique, but we’ve also included “I tried playing” videos arranged for beginners, so be sure to use them as a reference!
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[2026] Practice Songs for Beginner Drummers: Easy and Cool Recommended Tracks (31–40)
Isn’t She LovelyStevie Wonder
If you want to play drums beyond just rock and pop, I highly recommend Stevie Wonder’s 1970s R&B classic “Isn’t She Lovely.” Riding on a lively triplet feel, the intricate phrases that alternate between snare and cymbals will definitely broaden your playing once you master them.
By the way, the drummer is Stevie Wonder himself, who is a multi-instrumentalist.
I should be able to fly (in the sky).supittsu
It’s one of the signature songs by Spitz, a band that represents Japanese rock—surely almost everyone has heard it at some point, right? It’s a classic packed with the band’s signature softness and unique worldview.
The song has a relaxed tempo, which makes it approachable for beginner drummers.
The performance is basically centered on an 8-beat with fills in between.
If you study the sheet music carefully and learn it well, you’ll definitely be able to play it!
Wasted NightsONE OK ROCK
You might feel that ONE OK ROCK’s songs are cool but all pretty difficult! It’s true—“Kanzen Kankaku Dreamer,” for example, has that tricky drum solo right at the start.
But how about this ballad? With its relaxed groove, you can carefully follow and play each phrase.
If you’re a beginner drummer, this might be your first time encountering a 16-beat pattern with both hands on the hi-hat, but you’ll be fine if you practice starting at a slow tempo!
Let’s give it a tryWANIMA
WANIMA’s “Yatte Miyou,” which also drew attention as a song used in an au commercial.
The original is the famous children’s song “Picnic,” and because the melody is very easy to remember, it’s a song that’s easy to take on.
It features fast-tempo double kick, tight breaks where the guitar and bass stop on a dime together, and whirlwind changes in song structure with a variety of phrases, making it perfect for identifying the rhythms you’re not so good at.
Funny Bunnythe pillows
A track from the pillows’ eighth album, HAPPY BIVOUAC, released in 1999.
This song was used in the manga SKET DANCE, which ran in Weekly Shonen Jump, as the piece the protagonists perform at their school festival, so it might be familiar even to those who aren’t fans.
The tempo itself is slow, but the key is the exquisitely off-beat hi-hat.
If you can master that, you’ll look really cool.
[2026] Practice Songs for Beginner Drummers: Easy and Cool Recommended Tracks (41–50)
secret base ~What You Gave Me~ZONE
This is another all-time classic.
It’s been covered a lot recently, and it’s a song you never get tired of hearing.
If you play this mid-tempo ballad with an 8-beat feel and put real emotion into it, it might come across as deeply moving.
And if you can add some backing vocals, even better!
asking for the moonKANA-BOON
As a practice phrase for beginners, I recommend the four-on-the-floor dance beat that you often hear in Japanese rock.
A song that makes it easy to work on that dance-beat-based groove is KANA-BOON’s “Naimononedari.” There are plenty of challenging points, like the open hi-hat on the off-beats and the fills in between, but once you get this tempo of dance beat down, you can apply it in many different ways.