The beat you didn’t know you had.
Under your hands.
Make it, learn it, repeat it — one creative home base behind the kit.
Free on iPhone, iPad & Android.
Make the beat. Then learn to play it.
You practice what you’re excited about — the beat you just invented, a fill a friend shared, or the one you pulled off a video. That’s the loop, and the whole app is built around it. Three moves:
01 · Make it
Beats and fills, built your way.
Tap it straight into the grid, or describe the idea and shape what comes back. You drive — every voice, every hit, exactly where you want it.
02 · Learn it
Your idea, under your hands.
Any pattern in your shed becomes a drill: counted out, sticking assigned, broken into chunks, tempo laddered from "someday" to "got it."
03 · Harness the click
A metronome that plays music with you, not at you.
Feel changes, subdivision switches, shuffle and pocket, tempo that moves with a plan — structure that never goes stale at 4:06.
No floor. No ceiling.
Sketch a groove in seconds — or go places most apps can’t follow. You’ll never touch bottom.
7/8 · 11/8 · 13/4 · mixed subdivisions · swing & shuffle · ghost notes · pocket & feel · sticking
Beat Builder
Build beats the way music actually works
A guided wizard walks you through kick-snare foundation, embellishments, cymbals, sticking, and hi-hat foot — with real musical reasoning at every layer. Or open the full pattern editor and place every hit yourself — then loop it, slow it down, and build it up to tempo.
- 180+ built-in beat presets across 14 genres — rock, funk, gospel, metal, Latin, jazz, worship, R&B, punk, hip-hop, country, reggae, Afrobeat, blues
- 20 drum voices — kick, snare, side stick, rim clicks, open/closed/pedal hats, three toms, ride bow & bell, crash, china, splash, cowbell
- 11 voice routing strategies for hand distribution
- Cymbal accent presets with per-beat velocity control
- Full pattern editor for cell-by-cell control
Fill & Exercise Builder
Musical fills or pure technique — 36,700+ stickings, 18 accent shapes, 11 voice strategies
Choose your sticking, preview how it lays across the bar, dial in accents and flams, then route it to voices. Every decision is musical — not random.
- 200+ built-in fill presets, sorted by difficulty — or start from scratch
- 36,700+ sticking patterns from singles to complex paradiddles
- One-tap sticking presets — paradiddle, doubles, alternating, or your own pattern across the whole bar, or every voice at once for linear fills
- 18 accent shapes — gospel chops, descending runs, crescendos
- 11 voice strategies for routing hits across the kit
- Flam control on any individual hit
- Exercise mode — drop the beat bars and loop a sticking pattern back-to-back, practice-pad style
Live Playback
The beat you just made, on the stand — grid, notation, sticking, tracking you in real time
The beat you just built goes straight to the stand — phone or iPad, sticks in your hands. Every pattern and drill runs with a live playback view that tracks your position in real time. Grid view shows every voice color-coded. Notation view shows standard drum notation with sticking. Toggle counting syllables — 1 e & a — above the staff, ghost notes read as lowercase sticking, and any shuffle or pocket feel is captioned right on the notation. And the metronome itself plays that pocket — drag or rush the backbeat and shuffle the click, free on the main screen.
The deep end.
The full pattern editor gives you cell-by-cell control over every voice — then layer in the feel that makes it yours.
- Full pattern editor — place every hit on every voice, at any subdivision — with per-cell velocity
- Polyrhythm mode — independent top and bottom tracks, both polarities
- Pocket & micro-timing — lay a voice behind the beat or push it ahead
- Swing & shuffle — per-voice, on 8ths or 16ths
- Flams & ornaments — grace notes that play and engrave correctly
- Mixed subdivisions & time signatures — triplets and 16ths inside one beat; odd meters
- Rhythm count overlay — counting syllables above the staff, everywhere it renders
- Arrange mode — every bar as a card, up to 64 bars
Explore & Share
Hundreds of beats, fills, and exercises from drummers worldwide — plus a live activity feed
Browse hundreds of beats, fills, and exercises published by drummers around the world — three shelves, each with its own filters for genre, difficulty, time signature, or BPM. Clone anything you like, star your favorites, and share your own creations with a link anyone can open straight into the app.
- Search by genre, difficulty, time signature, BPM
- Star and collect patterns from drummers you follow
- Share with a link — opens directly in the app
- Export video or notation for TikTok, YouTube, lessons
- Print any pattern as an engraved sheet-music PDF — a worksheet with the sticking and counts you choose
AI Co-Pilot
BetaDescribe any groove in plain English, hear it back
Ask for a specific beat, fill, or session in plain English — and get exactly that. Musical, playable on a real kit, and ready to edit. It thinks like a drummer.
- Works for beats, fills, exercises, and complete practice sessions
- Iterate naturally: "add ghost notes," "swing the hi-hat," "make it harder"
- Reads your practice history and recommends what to work on next
- Every result is editable in the pattern editor
The AI Co-Pilot is in beta — it drafts, you play and decide what’s good. In-app feedback is one tap away.
Ten Drill Engines
Ten ways to harness the metronome — focused, configurable, savable
A metronome on its own just keeps time — these ten drills harness it. Each one points the click at something specific and wraps it in structure: a focus, a timed run, and a configuration you can save and come back to. Click Displacement rewires how you hear the pulse. Polyrhythm builds independence. Time Signature Builder breaks down odd meters. Dynamic Control sequences crescendos and decrescendos. Pocket drags or rushes the backbeat so you learn to sit against a click that grooves. And none of them are presets — every drill is configurable end to end: meter, subdivision, accents, dynamics, duration, down to the click itself. Dial in the exercise once, save it, and it's waiting next session. All ten are free — the whole harness, not a sampler.
Practice Paths
Plan your practice ahead — build your own paths, or auto-ramp any beat or fill
Paths turn practice into a plan. Build your own multi-day path from the beats, fills, exercises, and drills you've made — or tap Learn This on any pattern and get a ready-made plan that starts slow and ramps the tempo day by day.
- Learn This auto-builds a practice path for any fill or beat you create or discover
- Enroll on your practice weekdays and follow a dated calendar
- Judge your own reps against a reference you fade out
- Share a path with a link — others enroll, only you edit
Five more deep dives.
The full pattern-editor tour. Worksheets & sheet music. Your library & collections. Hands-free sessions. Stats & history. The full feature set, unpacked.
See all featuresThe whole metronome. No limits.
And the ten drills that aim it.
A metronome that plays music with you, not at you. Polyrhythms. Odd meters. Advanced click patterns. Fine-grained shuffle and pocket control. Most apps charge for these; DrumShed™ holds nothing back. Then it does the part a metronome never does — it gives you the structure to use it. Ten drills, each aiming the click at one specific weakness. That whole harness is the free tier, not a sampler of it.
- Any time signature, any subdivision
- Polyrhythm mode — 3:2, 4:3, 5:4 and more
- Advanced click patterns with per-beat accent control
- Shuffle & pocket control — push the beat or drag it back, with fine-grained shuffle amounts
- And the harness around it — all ten drills that aim the click: internal clock, click displacement, tempo builder, polyrhythm, pocket and the rest. Every one of them free.
Who's it for?
Whatever brought you here — a metronome, an idea you need to hear out loud, a way to actually improve — it's the same home base. Find your way in.
Stuck in a rut
Same grooves, same fills, same comfortable tempos. Build something new and learn to play it — ruts don't survive fresh material.
See howJust getting started
A free metronome, a guided first beat, and structured paths from day one. Start simple — everything else is there when you want it.
See howDrum teachers
Build every exercise you assign — any meter, any sticking, up to 64 bars. Print it as engraved sheet music with the counts on the bars you choose, share it with a link, and lay it out as a practice path your students follow between lessons.
See howContent creators
Generate beats, fills, and exercises fast. Export video and notation. Post-ready patterns for TikTok, Reels, and YouTube.
See howFull of ideas
Grooves show up in the car, at work, at 2am. Tap them in, hear them back, and build a library of every idea — as real notation.
See howWant real structure
A plan, not a jam session. Lay out multi-day practice paths from your own beats, fills, and drills — or tap Learn This on any pattern and follow the day-by-day tempo ramp it drafts for you.
See howFind your people
Hundreds of beats, fills, and exercises published by other drummers. Follow them, replay their exact drills, and high-five their wins.
See howPlay another instrument
Timing, groove, and phrasing aren't drummer-only. Build drum loops to practice bass or guitar over, and drill your pocket with the feel tools.
See howWhat drummers are saying
Five-star reviews from the App Store, plus notes from our beta drummers.
From beta testers
Simple pricing
All Access is where you make your own material — your beats, your fills, and a path that tells you what to practice tomorrow.
Practicing stays free forever: the whole metronome, all ten timing drills, sessions, history and streaks.
Launch pricing — subscribe now and keep this rate for as long as you stay subscribed.
A fraction of what the big drum-lesson platforms charge — and you leave with material you wrote, not someone else’s curriculum.
Free
The whole harness. Free.
- The whole metronome — no limits, nothing held back
- All 10 timing drills that aim it — the full harness
- Pocket & shuffle click: a pulse that grooves
- Hands-free practice sessions
- Drill history, stats & streaks
- Browse Explore
All Access
Make your own. No tiers.
- Beat, fill & exercise builders
- Publish your drills to Explore
- Star, clone, and fork patterns
- Practice Paths on a schedule
- AI beat, fill & session generation (beta)
- Smart practice recommendations
14-day free trial · no credit card required
Founding Member
One-time purchase. Full access forever.
- Everything in All Access — forever
- 1K AI starter credits included
- Buy more credits anytime as needed
- Exclusive founding member badge
Every drummer needs
a home base.
Everything the loop makes — beats, fills, drills, paths, progress — lives in one place, always where you left it. Every timing drill is free.