Drum rudiments trainer - DRT

SeaBream

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About this app

As a beginner drummer myself and having some programming skills I've decided to create mobile application, where I can get easy access to paradiddles and other rudiments in a library with clearly visual representation, on/off metronome and training time statistics for each rudiment in a set.
App designed for both beginners and experienced drummers.
Hope it will be useful to other people as well.


Reasons to try:

- Easy and intuitive controls
- No need to know drum musical notation
- Vertical musical tracker-type visual representation
- Dark theme to save your device battery
- BPM constant and acceleration modes
- Prevention of display sleep mode when training
- Slightly different snare sound samples for left and right hand strokes
- Different normal, accents, flam and drag stroke sounds
- Metronome sound and visual blink option with individual volume control
- Time stats for every rudiments and overall training time
- BPM from 10 for very beginners to 320 as hell
- Count-in option
- Metronome sound only mode
- Drums sound only mode
- Silent mode
- Chance to training with no pad and sticks - just your hands and knees
- Small app file size
- Sufficient font size for people with eye issues
- Rudiment editor with random shots generator

Ratings and reviews

Very well thought-out and intuitive usage. The visualization is great, and the options for varying speed and hand order are really useful for practice. Time tracking is an awesome idea to help you keep track of how long it takes you to master a rhythm. In the future it would be cool to see complex time signatures and polyrhythms. Also, if there's some way to do live accuracy grading by using the microphone to listen for stick hits, that would be incredible.

First rudiment app I use everyday. Very straight forward and to the point. Not too many options that it gets too confusing but enough to accommodate everyone. I don't come across too many apps/books/media that doesn't use 'L' and 'R' to indicate which hand and I think this works. I remember being an absolute beginner and focusing on which hand ALL the time but this app takes that away and it's a little more natural. I love that it remembers the last bpm of each individual rudiment.

Excellent concept with an ergonomic UI. I feel like this app is tailored more for the beginner drummer. I would like to see the notation displayed as a musical score instead of what it is now. Though I understand that this would require a rework of the UI. A big thumbs down for the rhythm of the drum sound, and the metronome. I can hear them both play off beat quite often. In my opinion, this happens often enough to mistrain a person, who doesn't know better.

What’s new

- Fixed timer functionality
- Added Android 15 support
- Added the ability to use the editor without paying
- Minor design fixes