Who is this rhythm trainer for?

Every musician. Drummers use it as endless snare reading practice, with rudiments as special blocks and the rhythm spliced into a beat to play on the kit. Guitarists, bassists, keyboard players and singers play it on their own instrument or sing it, and turn it into riffs, chord parts and melodies. The rhythm plays on a snare so it's easy to hear whatever you play.

How does it help drummers?

It's sight reading practice that never runs out: a new snare rhythm at your level, with exactly as many triplets as you want, at any tempo. Sign in to mix in quintuplets, septuplets and the drum rudiments, sticking and all. Then splice it into a rock, half-time or toms beat to play it around the kit, and take it into RockBlocks to keep working on it.

Can it help when I'm stuck writing a song or riff?

Yes. A new rhythm is a starting point: build a riff, chord part or bass line on it. Pick a mood for a scale and its chords, and the magic bassline writes a bass part in that scale over your rhythm to get you going.

How do the triplets work?

You choose exactly how many of the rhythm's blocks (beats) are triplets, from none to all of them. The rest are straight eighths and sixteenths at your level.

What scales and chords does it show?

40 scales on the 12-note keyboard, each picked by a mood (Happy is major, Sad is natural minor, Gritty is minor pentatonic, and so on), with the notes and the chord on every degree: triads, seventh chords, power chords and jazz chords. Pentatonic and other short scales take their chords from the seven-note scale they sit in.

How does the sight singing work?

It writes a melody on your rhythm in the mood's scale, in the comfortable range of your voice (soprano, mezzo, alto, tenor, baritone or bass), in treble or bass clef, with movable-do solfège and scale degrees under the notes. It starts and ends on do, mostly moves by step, and leaps more as the level goes up.

Yes, with no ads. A free account adds special blocks: quintuplets, septuplets and drum rudiments.

Rhythm Trainer for drums, guitar, bass, voice and every musician

Practice your rhythm, and get unstuck when the ideas won't come. You get a new rhythm at your level, as blocks and as sheet music, to play at any tempo: on the snare, or on your own instrument. Make it into a groove, a riff, a chord part or a bass line. Pick a mood for a scale and its chords, add a magic bassline, sight-sing a melody on it, or splice it into a drum beat and finish it in RockBlocks.

Free
No ads
Drummers too
Rhythm practice
Ideas when you're stuck
40 scales by mood
Sight singing

Difficulty

Quarter and eighth notes

Blocks (beats)

Triplet blocks0 of 4Exactly this many of the blocks are triplets; the rest are straight notes.

Special blocks (quintuplets, septuplets and drum rudiments) come with a free account or sign in.

Changing a setting changes this rhythm only as much as it needs to. New rhythm starts fresh.

Your rhythm

Tempo80 BPM

Snare Drum

Sheet music · snare

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Make it yours

Stuck for an idea? Start from the rhythm. It repeats like a riff: the first half asks, the second half answers with a new ending.

On the drums. Read it on the snare or a pad until it's even, then move its notes around the kit. Splice it into a beat below to hear one way to do it.
One note first. Play the rhythm on a single muted note until it sits in your hands.
A riff. Keep the rhythm and change notes on the downbeats; save your highest note for the ending.
A chord part. Strum the rhythm and change chords every time it starts over.
A bass line. Roots on the rhythm, or turn on the magic bassline below for a starting point.

Need more ideas? Pick a mood

Each mood is a scale. Pick a key, then a mood, for the notes and the chords that go with it.

Key

Magic basslineSight singing

Splice it into a drum beat

The same rhythm shared out across the drums, with a cymbal keeping time. Take it into RockBlocks to change it however you like.

Kick on the downbeats, snare on 2 and 4, the rest shared out.

Crash Cymbal

Ride Cymbal

Snare Drum

Bass Drum

Brings the rhythm on the snare and every drum-set version, A to D.

How to use it

Set your level. Pick a difficulty from Beginner to Expert, how many beats long the rhythm is, and how many of its blocks are triplets. Changing a setting varies the rhythm on screen; New rhythm writes a fresh one.
Play it. Press Play to hear the rhythm on a snare with a click, at any tempo from 30 to 200 BPM, reading along on the blocks or the sheet music. Clap it, then play it: on the snare or a practice pad, or on one note of your instrument.
Make it a part. Turn the rhythm into a groove or fill around the kit, a riff, a chord part or a bass line. For ideas, pick a key and a mood to see the scale's notes and the chord on every degree, and turn on the magic bassline for a bass part in that scale.
Sing it. Turn on sight singing, pick your voice type, and read the melody in treble or bass clef with solfège and scale degrees under the notes. Press Give me do for your starting pitch, sing it on your own, then play it to check.
Take it further. Splice the rhythm into a rock, half-time or toms drum beat, reshuffle it until you like it, and open it (with the magic bassline, if it's on) in the RockBlocks editor or Stacks.

Questions

Who is this rhythm trainer for?: Every musician. Drummers use it as endless snare reading practice, with rudiments as special blocks and the rhythm spliced into a beat to play on the kit. Guitarists, bassists, keyboard players and singers play it on their own instrument or sing it, and turn it into riffs, chord parts and melodies. The rhythm plays on a snare so it's easy to hear whatever you play.
How does it help drummers?: It's sight reading practice that never runs out: a new snare rhythm at your level, with exactly as many triplets as you want, at any tempo. Sign in to mix in quintuplets, septuplets and the drum rudiments, sticking and all. Then splice it into a rock, half-time or toms beat to play it around the kit, and take it into RockBlocks to keep working on it.
Can it help when I'm stuck writing a song or riff?: Yes. A new rhythm is a starting point: build a riff, chord part or bass line on it. Pick a mood for a scale and its chords, and the magic bassline writes a bass part in that scale over your rhythm to get you going.
How do the triplets work?: You choose exactly how many of the rhythm's blocks (beats) are triplets, from none to all of them. The rest are straight eighths and sixteenths at your level.
What scales and chords does it show?: 40 scales on the 12-note keyboard, each picked by a mood (Happy is major, Sad is natural minor, Gritty is minor pentatonic, and so on), with the notes and the chord on every degree: triads, seventh chords, power chords and jazz chords. Pentatonic and other short scales take their chords from the seven-note scale they sit in.
How does the sight singing work?: It writes a melody on your rhythm in the mood's scale, in the comfortable range of your voice (soprano, mezzo, alto, tenor, baritone or bass), in treble or bass clef, with movable-do solfège and scale degrees under the notes. It starts and ends on do, mostly moves by step, and leaps more as the level goes up.
Is it free?: Yes, with no ads. A free account adds special blocks: quintuplets, septuplets and drum rudiments.

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