Every feature.
In full.
The complete feature tour for DrumShed™. One machine, end to end — build exactly the drill you need, run it hands-free, stack it into sessions, schedule it into paths, and track every rep.
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
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.
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 — tap cells to cycle ghost, normal, accent, off, and drag to set the velocity of any hit.
Polyrhythm mode
Independent top and bottom tracks — 3-over-2, 4-over-3, 5-over-4 and more, both polarities.
Pocket & micro-timing
Lay any voice back or push it ahead of the grid — snare behind the beat, kick dead center.
Swing & shuffle
Per-voice swing on 8ths or 16ths — lay the hats back while the kick stays dead straight.
Flams & ornaments
Add a flam to any hit — grace notes render correctly in both playback and notation.
Mixed subdivisions & time signatures
Different subdivisions per beat — or even within a beat: triplets on the first half, 16ths on the second — across 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/8, and 7/8, odd meters included.
Rhythm count overlay
Toggle counting syllables above the staff — 1 e & a, triplets, sextuplets, 32nds — in the editor, live playback, and every video and image export.
Arrange mode
See every bar of a long piece as a card — drag to reorder, tap one to edit it, copy, paste, duplicate, or delete a run. Built for scaffolding sheet music up to 64 bars.
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.
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
Session Builder
Stack drills, set tempos, hit start. Hands-free.
Stack your drills, set tempos, add play-along tracks — then hit start. Voice cues announce every transition hands-free. Structured practice from start to finish without touching your phone.
- Drag-and-drop session builder
- Voice cues at every transition
- Apple Music tracks woven into your session (iOS, with your subscription)
Or let AI build it. Beta
Describe your goals and the AI builds a full personalized session from your practice history.
- Tell it your skill level, time available, and goals
- AI pulls from your practice history to find gaps
- Generates a complete session with drills, tempos, and transitions
- One tap to start — voice cues handle the rest
Worksheets & Sheet Music
Long exercises, engraved as a PDF — with the sticking and counts you choose, bar by bar
A pattern doesn’t have to be one bar. Build a phrase up to 64 bars, lay it out in Arrange as reorderable bar cards, then export the whole thing as engraved sheet music — a real PDF with the title and tempo marking on page one, up to four bars per system, and as many pages as the exercise needs.
- Sheet-music PDF export — A4 portrait, vector, multi-page, with your creator credit on the last page
- Patterns up to 64 bars, so a full exercise fits in one chart
- Arrange view: drag bar cards to reorder, tap one to edit it, and copy, paste, duplicate, or delete a run
- Notation view shows as many bars at once as you want — one at a time, or up to eight across
Your Library
Every beat, fill, exercise, and drill you make — organized into collections
Everything you create lands in your library. Group beats, fills, exercises, and drills into collections — a warm-up routine, a song's parts, a lesson plan — then reorder them, play a whole collection as a session, or share it.
- All your beats, fills, exercises, and drills in one place
- Organize into collections you can reorder and rename
- Play a collection straight through as a session
- Edit any creation in the pattern editor, or publish to Explore
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
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, fills, and exercises the moment someone publishes them
Stats & History
Streaks, history, achievements — see your improvement
Every drill you run gets logged. Total time, total drills, streaks, history by week, month, year. Achievements mark the milestones. You always know exactly how far you've come.
- Daily and weekly streak tracking
- Drill counts and time by week, month, year, or all time
- Achievements for milestones across drills and tempos
- Calendar view of every session at a glance
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.