— Fill · Progressive Rock

Crooked Staircase

by Loic

4/4116 BPM10Fill MakerProgressive RockFusion
— The Pattern
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— About

A fill grouped in threes across a four-beat bar, so it lands somewhere different from where it started. Count the bar, not the pattern.

Open it. Make it yours. Learn it.

Clone it, bend it, then let Learn This ramp it into your hands — no floor, no ceiling.

Fill Builder

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.

  • 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
See it in action
Fill maker wizard — step 1
Setup
Fill maker wizard — step 2
Subdivisions
Fill maker wizard — step 3
Sticking
Fill maker wizard — step 4
Preview
Fill maker wizard — step 5 (accent)
Accent
Fill maker wizard — step 6 (voice)
Voice
Fill maker wizard — step 7 (hi-hat foot)
Hi-Hat Foot
Fill maker wizard — step 8 (feel)
Feel

Live Playback

Grid view, notation view, sticking patterns

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.

Beat maker live drill playback
Grid view — voices scrub live
Beat maker — live playback notation view
Notation view

Pattern Editor

Full cell-by-cell control over every hit

Place hits on a grid, adjust velocity and sticking per cell, add ghost notes and flams. Every pattern opens in the editor for fine-tuning — whether it came from the wizard, AI, or the community.

  • 20 drum voices — kick, snare, side stick, rim clicks, open/closed/pedal hats, three toms, ride bow & bell, crash, china, splash, cowbell
  • Tap cells to place hits — velocity sets automatically by position
  • Drag to adjust velocity, long-press for flams and cross-stick
  • Mixed subdivisions per beat — triplets next to sixteenths
  • Any time signature from 2 to 13 over /4 or /8 — patterns up to 64 bars
Pattern grid editor — grid view
Pattern editor

Drum Notation

Place hits on the grid — see them as standard notation instantly

Beat maker notation view
Notation view

Every pattern you build or clone automatically converts to standard drum notation. Toggle between the color-coded grid and staff notation with one tap — both update in real time during playback.

  • Automatic conversion from grid to standard drum notation
  • Sticking labels (R/L/K) appear below the staff
  • Accent marks, ghost notes, and flams render correctly
  • Export notation as images for lessons or social media

Learn it

Any pattern can become a drill. Tap Learn This in the app and it turns into a day-by-day tempo ramp — a practice path built around the thing you actually want to play.

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