Upbeat Studio
Everything for drummers
Great drummers aren't born. They're built, one practice session at a time.
- Best-rated drum learning app by store ratings
- 25,000+ active drummers
- 180+ countries
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Drum Coach
You'll know what to practice, every day.
Drum Coach builds a daily practice plan around your kit, your level and the music you love, and adapts it as you progress.
Drum Notes
You'll understand what you play.
Drum Notes lets you write, play and share drum notation. For drummers, teachers and bands who want their groove on paper.
No account. No ads. Just drums.
The free stuff
100BPM
The online metronome
The one drummers keep open while they practice. Tap tempo, time signatures, accents and a timing challenge. Free, in your browser.
- ToolDrum Notation Trainer
Read a drum chart by Friday.
- ToolDrumless Tracks
Any song, without the drums.
- ToolDrum Lesson Cost Calculator
Real prices, before you book.
- ChatCoach on WhatsApp
Ask the Coach anything. It answers.
- GameThe Whitney Drop Challenge
Hit the drop. Get scored.
- GuideThe Drum Practice System
Warm-ups, daily plans and five-minute routines.
- GuideDrum Notation
The drum key, note values and counting.
- Interactive guideSamba, from the inside
Every pattern playable out loud.
- Interactive guideDrumline, from the inside
Snares, tenors, basses and cymbals.
- Interactive guideMalinké, from the inside
Djembes and dununs in four rhythms.
Our story
Born in a practice room
Most companies are born in a garage. Upbeat was born in a practice room.
We are drummers and builders who watched too many people fall in love with the instrument and then give it up. The reason was almost always the same: the gap between one lesson a week and the six days of practice in between.
Everything we build is for those six days.
What drummers say
I've tried a bunch of apps and always quit. Drum Coach is the only one that gives me a clear plan and actually makes it fun.
Drum Coach
I used to write everything on paper. Drum Notes lets me get ideas down way faster and share them with my band instantly.
Drum Notes
Drum Coach completely changed how I practice. Clear routines, easy tracking, and pro tips. Finally making real progress!
Drum Coach
Drum Notes has made teaching rhythm so much easier. Now my students enjoy practicing, and I spend less time preparing.
Drum Notes
// the lab
research, experiments, curiosity
Our exploratory space. We study how people learn music, try ideas with sound and code, and map the world of music learning. Some of it ends up in our apps. All of it makes us better drummers and builders.
- researchthe-micro-app-floodhow many music learning apps now launch, and who uses them
- experimentdrumless-tracksany song without its drums, so you can take the drummer's seat
- experimentdrum-mapverified drum teachers and schools, city by city
Supported by
A music technology studio making tools for drummers and percussionists. We make Drum Coach, the app that plans your daily drum practice, and Drum Notes, the drum notation editor, plus free web tools and guides.
The online metronome, the Drum Notation Trainer, the Whitney Drop Challenge, the Coach on WhatsApp and every guide are free, with no account and no ads. Drum Coach and Drum Notes are apps with a free start and paid plans.
Yes. Drum Coach asks about your kit, your level and the music you love, then builds a daily plan that starts where you are and adapts after every session.
No. You can start on a practice pad or with your hands on your lap. Drum Coach works with acoustic and electronic kits when you have one.
Yes. Drum Notes lets you write, play back and share drum notation, and the free Drum Notation Trainer helps you read it.
Yes. We work with brands and retailers to give new drummers a plan from day one. Write to us at support@upbeat.studio or see the page for brands.
Stop guessing what to practice
Drum Coach tells you what to practice next, every day.
Start drumming today