Wheelhouse Beats

Ben Singer

In-app purchases

About this app

Virtuoso guitarist Charlie Hunter has assembled a world-class set of drummers for you:

• JT Bates (Bonny Light Horseman, Anaïs Mitchell, Big Red Machine, Taylor Swift)
• Jeremy “Bean” Clemons (Burning Spear, Harry Connick Jr., Mavis Swan Poole)
• Corey Fonville (Butcher Brown, Nicholas Payton, Kurt Elling)
• Chris Gelb (Megg Farrell, Vince Giordano, Café Society)
• Brevan Hampden (Phil Cook, Charlie Hunter, Ani DiFranco, Al Strong, Hiss Golden Messenger)
• Terence Higgins (Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Widespread Panic, John Scofield, Allen Toussaint, Ani DiFranco)
• Derrek Phillips (Brett Eldredge, LeAnn Rimes, Hank Williams Jr., Charlie Hunter, Mike Farris, Gloria Gaynor)
• Bobby Previte (Guggenheim Fellow, Greenfield Prize in Music, NEA Fellow, Creator/Director of The Improvisation Workshop)
• Carter McLean (Roy Ayers, Bernie Worrell, Fred Wesley, Victor Wooten, Jamie McLean, Lion King on Broadway)
• George Sluppick (Albert King, Charlie Hunter, JJ Grey & Mofro, Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Morgan James, Sha Na Na)

Each drummer recorded a special set of beats for Wheelhouse, and played those beats all the way from stone-cold slow to smoking fast. Wheelhouse stitches these together so you can play any tempo in between.

As well as this huge range of tempos, most beats have an options of 1, 2, 4, or 8 measure phrases or loops. We've worked hard to make each one of these make musical sense.

Like a metronome, Wheelhouse is a great tool for playing time, but even more, it‘s for helping develop your feel.

For any kind of instrumentalist — playing with Wheelhouse will help you become a better musician, better listener, and better collaborator.

For drummers — take a deep dive into how these pro‘s use subtle sounds and dynamics to elevate a groove.

And some of our biggest fans are songwriters, who use it to work out new material. It‘s more fun and more musical!

Don‘t miss Brevan‘s Latin section, with four different percussion parts you can mix. And if you need a little inspiration, try rolling the dice for something new.

Ten days after you install, Wheelhouse will require you to subscribe. Wheelhouse is an independently made app, and your subscription directly supports our musicians and the app.

Ratings and reviews

Not a fan of subscription unless there'll be updates. Also for some reason this app is super glitchy with headphones output on my phone. It'll play with headphones, but anything else like lineout to a speaker, etc it goes nuts, particularly with only some of the samples.

The beats on this app are very cool. But unfortunately it's subscription based, who wants to pay a subscription for drum loops? Please add an option to pay it in full, this business model is awful

Oh man this is so cool and such a great way to practice. Please consider adding a cast button so we can play audio on louder speakers.

What’s new

Three new patterns by Bobby Previte
12-bar option for Down Home Blues and Memphis Shuffle
Use AAudio for output
Add lock screen controls
Fix playback with some Bluetooth devices
Fix controls becoming unresponsive
Fix cycle dial not stopping
Fix Latin getting out of sync
Fix play button delay