DrumFaster

Drum tools

Free tools for drummers, right in your browser. No apps to install, no sign-up walls — just useful things we wished existed, so we built them.

Nine of them, all free, all running in the browser. Point your mic at a drum and read its pitch, climb a tempo without touching the dial, work through all forty rudiments with the sticking played back to you, generate a sticking nobody wrote down, get three against two under your hands, log what you practised, build a beat, or set up a page that shows what you play.

Nothing here needs an app, a card or an email address. An account is free and adds the extras — saved kits, the auto-climbing trainer, your practice history — but every tool does its main job signed out.

Not sure where to start? Most drummers want the drum tuner. It is the one that fixes a problem you can hear.

Which one do you need?

Your kit sounds wrong and you cannot say why
Nine times out of ten it is tuning, not gear. Start with the drum tuner and lug match every drum before you change anything else.
You want to play something faster
The tempo trainer climbs the BPM for you so you are not stopping to move a dial. Gap click is the setting that actually exposes whether your time is solid.
Your hands need work
The rudiment trainer plays all 40 with the right hand and left hand pitched differently, so you can hear the sticking rather than decode it off a page.
Your limbs will not do different things at once
The polyrhythm trainer plays two voices against each other on a ring you can watch, and its independence drills move the kick through every sixteenth-note placement under a steady hi-hat.
You practise but never seem to improve
Usually a record-keeping problem. The practice log shows you what you actually did versus what you think you did.
You just want to hit something
The Groove Lab is a playable kit and a step sequencer. Make a beat, share it with a link.

Guides that go with them

A tool is only half of it. Pair the tuner with our drum head buying guide — heads and tuning are one job, not two. The tempo trainer and the rudiment trainer both come straight out of our guide to drumming faster, and the practice log runs the system that Benny Greb has used for years. Need a tempo rather than a tool? The song tempo database has the BPM of the songs drummers get asked to play, each one a tap from the metronome. More where those came from in our drum lessons and drummer advice.

Want a tool that doesn't exist yet?

Tell us what would make your drumming life easier via the contact page — the best ideas get built. And if you just fancy hitting things, the playable kit is right this way.