01 / Free play
Play the kit
Use your keyboard or tap the kit. Record a take and play it back at your original timing.
ethosBASIC example / In planning
Drum Lab.
Play the kit, follow the notes and listen back to what you played. Then take a beat one bar at a time.
See the first beats
The game plan
Play, read, replay.
02 / Practice
Read the score
Watch the playhead move through drum notation. Slow a groove down, count in and loop the bars you’re learning.
03 / Track library
Play along
Hear a drum-only guide, then take over the kit. Start with original grooves and add familiar songs as arrangements are cleared for release.
Beat book / Planned starter pack
From backbeat to odd time.
- Rock backbeat
- 4/4 · 80 BPM · Kick, snare and eighth-note hats
- Four on the floor
- 4/4 · 112 BPM · Quarter-note kick and offbeat hats
- Half-time shuffle
- 4/4 · 82 BPM · Triplets, ghost notes and space
- Funk pocket
- 4/4 · 96 BPM · Sixteenth-note syncopation
- Six-eight sway
- 6/8 · 72 dotted quarters/min · Two pulses per bar
- Odd halo
- 7/8 · 140 eighths/min · Count it 2 + 2 + 3