Melodics teaches you lessons.
DrumShed builds your practice.
Melodics is a lesson platform: 1,200+ interactive lessons that score every hit you play. DrumShed is a practice system — timing drills, beat and fill builders, and sessions for the material you're already working on.
Different approaches to practice
| Feature | Melodics | DrumShed |
|---|---|---|
| Gamified lessons | ✓ | — |
| MIDI e-kit input | ✓ | — |
| Works with acoustic kit | ✓ (via mic) | ✓ |
| Standalone metronome + timing drills | — | ✓ (9 drills) |
| Beat builder | — | ✓ |
| Fill builder (36,700+ stickings) | — | ✓ |
| AI generation | — | ✓ |
| Pattern editor | — | ✓ |
| Community sharing | — | ✓ |
| Video export | — | ✓ |
| Structured sessions | — | ✓ |
| Platform | iOS, Mac, Windows | iOS & Android |
| Price | $24.99–29.99/mo | Free · $5.99/mo · $119.99 once (lifetime) |
One year of Melodics Standard annual ($119.99) costs the same as DrumShed's lifetime plan. One of them expires.
See DrumShed in action
Build a groove, watch it scrub across every voice in the grid, then drill it at tempo. The same beat you describe to the AI is the one you sit down and play.
Play it, then learn it
Grid, notation, sticking — slow any pattern down and learn it
Phone on the stand, iPad on the rig — sticks in your hands. Every 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.
9 Metronome Drills
Surgical tools for every gap in your time
Each drill targets something specific. Click Displacement rewires how you hear the pulse. Polyrhythm builds independence. Time Signature Builder breaks down odd meters. Dynamic Control sequences crescendos and decrescendos. These aren't exercises — they're surgical tools.
AI Co-Pilot
Describe 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, 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
Explore & Share
Activity feed, pattern discovery, and high-fives — your drumming network, live
Browse beats and fills from drummers around the world. Filter by 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
See what your network is practicing.
The Activity tab is a live feed of what people you follow are actually doing — which drills they're running, sessions they completed, and patterns they just published. High-five anything, or replay their exact drill or full session in one tap.
- High-five drills and sessions from drummers you follow
- Replay their exact drill — same pattern, same tempo
- Replay a full session another drummer just ran
- See new beats and fills the moment someone publishes them
Choose Melodics if...
You want guided lessons: 1,200+ of them across 170 courses, with 180+ song lessons on Premium. Per-note feedback is excellent, especially on a MIDI e-kit. If you want to be taught, it's the stronger pick.
Choose DrumShed if...
You practice on an acoustic kit (or pad), want deep creative tools, and need practice structure beyond guided lessons. Works on iPhone, iPad and Android.
Capture it. Shed it.
Keep it.
Practice on the kit you actually play.