Home Drum Practice

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Practice drums even without a drum kit at home. Home Drum Practice plays rhythms on an on-screen drum kit and lights up where to hit and with which hand or foot. Made for beginners — including concert band percussionists asked to play drum set. SEE WHERE TO HIT - The next spot to hit lights up on the kit one beat ahead, color-coded for right hand, left hand, right foot and left foot - Switch between drum notation and a step grid, with sticking (R/L) and spoken syllables. Open the full details to see notation and grid together - Change the tempo freely, or drop to 50% or 75% in one tap 36 RHYTHMS FROM AROUND THE WORLD - Rock & pop: 8-beat, 16-beat, four on the floor, funk, hip-hop and more - Jazz & blues: shuffle, swing, 12/8 and 6/8 - Brazil (samba, bossa nova, baião), Cuba & the Caribbean (clave, reggae), the African 6/8 bell, and Middle Eastern rhythms - Japan & concert band (march, waltz, polka, taiko style) and rudiments (single, double, paradiddle, roll) - Each pattern explains where it comes from, what each limb does, and what to listen for MAKE YOUR OWN PATTERNS - Just tap cells in each instrument's row, including open hi-hat, rimshots, ghost notes and rolls - An illustrated guide with practice cells explains editing and extending rolls - Choose the meter (4/4, 3/4, 2/4, 6/8, 12/8) and grid, then save and come back anytime PLAY ALONG - Tap the pads on the kit and get "on time / early / late" feedback against the click - Hi-hat: closed in the middle, open at the edge. Drums: rimshot at the rim. Drums and cymbals roll on the far half - Calibrate to correct for touch and audio latency - Use a Bluetooth foot pedal (page turner) or keyboard for the bass drum and hi-hat pedal FREE AND PRO - Free: 10 patterns — 8-beat, 16-beat, a fill, swing, samba, clave, the 6/8 bell, ayoub, march and single strokes - Pro (one-time purchase): the other 26 built-in patterns, making, editing and saving your own patterns, and Favorites ALSO - For iPhone and iPad, with a large kit view in landscape (on iPhone you can lock portrait or landscape in the app) - Japanese and English - No account, no ads, works offline Sounds: Virtuosity Drums and the Versilian Community Sample Library (CC0). Music font: Bravura (SIL Open Font License).