Upbeat Studio

Everything for drummers

Great drummers aren't born. They're built, one practice session at a time.

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  • Best-rated drum learning app by store ratings
  • 25,000+ active drummers
  • 180+ countries

I want to

Practice

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.

  1. 01Tell it your kit, your level and the music you love.
  2. 02Get today's session, five minutes or more.
  3. 03Practice. The plan grows with you.
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Best-rated drum learning app by store ratings · 25,000+ active drummers · 180+ countries

Notation

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.

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Recognized with a Latin GRAMMY Cultural Foundation Preservation Grant in 2017 · For teachers and bands

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.

Open the free online metronome

More free tools and guides

The Upbeat Studio team at work, in Keep the Beat hoodies

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.

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What drummers say

Between Drum Coach and Drum Notes, I have everything I need. One helps me practice, the other helps me create. It all just works together.

LUCAS F.

I didn't expect a small studio to build tools this good. Upbeat genuinely feels like it was made by people who play drums, not just code.

RACHEL W.

I started with the metronome, then tried Drum Notes, and now I'm using Drum Coach daily. Each tool adds something different to my routine.

TOMAS G.

// 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.

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The public programs, accelerators and music organizations that have backed our work.

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FAQ

For any other doubts or feedback, please contact us
at: support@upbeat.studio

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