# Lazy Lopez: Drums — Grooves, Rudiments & Metronome > A digital practice room for drummers with grooves, metronome, and band accompaniment. (iPhone/iPad app by Lazy Lopez Productions.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lazy-lopez-drums/id6789965956 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Lazy Lopez Productions](https://appshunter.io/developer/405581486) - Category: Music, Education - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Rating: 5.00/5 from 2 App Store ratings - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 99 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-07-14 - Data updated: 2026-11-13 - Monetization: free with in-app purchases ## What is Lazy Lopez? Sit down and find your beat. Explore grooves, work on rudiments, and play at your own pace. Lazy Lopez: Drums is a practice room that stays out of your way. No streaks to keep, no scores to chase, no account to make. A little room to play. GROOVES 151 grooves across seventeen styles, written in standard drum notation. Mute or solo any voice, slide the tempo, loop a bar, and record a take when it feels right. Turn your phone sideways and the notation fills the screen for reading at the kit. BUILD YOUR OWN A grid editor for the groove in your head, in any time signature, saved alongside the rest. PULSE A metronome with its own tab: 30 to 300 BPM, subdivisions, an accented downbeat, gap click, tempo ramp, tap tempo, and a silent visual pulse for late-night pad work. Odd meters count the way you count them, so 17/8 can go 3+3+3+3+3+2. RUDIMENTS, FILLS AND COORDINATION All 40 rudiments, with notation, sticking and playback at your pace. 30 fills and 16 limb-independence drills, easiest first. JAM Bass and keys vamp in the key you pick, in five styles, and you hold the groove. Record the take. CAPTURE IDEAS Record the beat you just tapped out. Trim it on a waveform, slow it down, and bring anything back from Recently Deleted for 30 days. THREE KITS Two acoustic kits and a synth percussion set, sampled rather than sequenced. PRACTICE, YOUR WAY Eleven backing loops and three ready-made practice routines, or build your own and run it with a calm timer. A practice log you can export as a spreadsheet. IPHONE, IPAD, MAC AND WATCH One app for iPhone and iPad, plus a native Mac app. On iPhone there's also an Apple Watch app with a haptic metronome and tap tempo, a home-screen widget for Pulse, Grooves and Jam, and Live Activities that keep your tempo and timer on the Lock Screen. YOURS, ON YOUR DEVICE Your grooves, takes and ideas live on your device. No account, no cloud sync, nothing to sign up for. Back up your practice log, routines, favorite grooves, and saved setups to a file you keep and read it back on a new phone; the log exports as a spreadsheet too. Optional analytics are off unless you turn them on, and they never include your grooves, audio or notes. Every feature is free, and the optional tip jar unlocks nothing. NEW NAME, SAME APP Lazy Lopez: Drums was Drum Buddha. It is the same app from the same maker, By Lazy Lopez Productions, now part of Lazy Lopez Music. Pick up an instrument. Make some music. ## Key features - Groove library with adjustable tempo and voice muting - Customizable metronome with odd meters and visual pulse - Drum rudiments and coordination drills - Band accompaniment for jamming - On-device recording and editing - Grid editor for building custom grooves ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Supporter | $4.99 | one-time | | Thanks | $0.99 | one-time | | Keep it flowing | $9.99 | one-time | ## Is Lazy Lopez safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Lazy Lopez. ## Is Lazy Lopez legit? Lazy Lopez: Drums appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Lazy Lopez is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Frequently asked questions about Lazy Lopez ### What is Drum Buddha? Drum Buddha is a digital practice room designed for drummers. It offers a library of original grooves, a customizable metronome, and band accompaniment to aid in practice without the pressure of scores or streaks. ### Does Drum Buddha have ads? No, Drum Buddha does not contain advertisements. It is a free application with an optional tip jar for users who wish to support its development. ### What devices does Drum Buddha support? Drum Buddha is available for iPhone and iPad, offering an uncluttered layout that adapts to larger screens. It also has an Apple Watch companion for haptic metronome feedback. ### How does Drum Buddha handle user data? Your grooves, recordings, and ideas are stored locally on your device, as no account or cloud sync is required. Optional anonymous analytics are off by default and can be enabled to help improve the app. ### Can I record my practice sessions with Drum Buddha? Yes, you can record your drum takes directly within the app. Recordings can be trimmed on a waveform, slowed down, and deleted recordings can be recovered for up to 30 days. ### What kind of musical styles are available in Drum Buddha? Drum Buddha features a library of original patterns in various styles including rock, funk, jazz, latin, shuffle, and hip-hop. You can also build your own grooves in the grid editor. ### Is Drum Buddha suitable for beginners? Yes, Drum Buddha is designed for drummers of all levels. It provides fundamental practice tools like rudiments and coordination drills, alongside grooves and band accompaniment for varied practice. ### How often is Drum Buddha updated? The latest version of Drum Buddha is 1.0, which was last updated on July 15, 2026. Updates are released to improve the application based on user feedback and development cycles. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 2.0 — 2026-11-12 A new name and a new look: Drum Buddha is now Lazy Lopez: Drums, part of Lazy Lopez Music. Your grooves, ideas, recordings and settings are right where you left them. The one change is the look: the app now has a single Lazy Lopez theme that follows your phone's Light or Dark setting, so a colour theme you picked before is not kept. Made for iPhone Duo: notation that stands up behind the kit, and a hinge for your left foot. On iPhone Duo • Stand it on the kick. Open the phone halfway and set it down: Pulse puts the tempo and the beat up where you can read them from the throne and the controls down on the flat half; a groove puts its notation up and the transport down; Jam does the same with the band. Nothing moves until the phone is actually standing. • The hi-hat pedal. On any groove with hi-hats, the hinge is your left foot: fold it closed and the hats play closed, open it and they open, and a quick stomp shut plays the foot chick. A Hat row in the transport card does the same by tap, and Pattern hands the hats back to the groove. • Capture closed, develop open. Record an idea with the phone shut, open it, and the idea is waiting on the big screen with its riff tab and notes beside the waveform. A take in progress also survives the phone opening or closing. • Everywhere else on the Duo, every screen keeps clear of the side strip and the welcome headline fits. The hinge features follow the phone's hinge angle and each has a touch equivalent. On every other iPhone nothing changes. ### 1.3 — 2026-09-05 Write in any time signature — and a few things you asked for. • Any time signature. Write in 17/8, 33/8, anything — and say how the bar is counted. Tell it 17 goes 3+3+3+3+3+2 and the notation beams it that way, the grid shades it that way, and the click lands where you count. The metronome takes the same meters. • Read it at the kit. Turn the phone sideways on any groove and the notation fills the screen, with everything else out of the way. • Take a groove out of its box. Each groove still shows the tempo range it's traditionally played in — but that's guidance now, not a limit. • Routines no longer opens empty: three ready-made sessions are waiting. • A copy you keep: write your practice log, routines, favorite grooves and saved setups to one file, and read it back on a new phone. • A Send feedback row in Settings, with your version and device already filled in. Most of this release arrived that way. • Smaller fixes throughout, including a clearer cross-stick in the mix. As always: free, every feature unlocked, no account, no ads. ### 1.2 — 2026-08-11 Small things that should have stayed put — now they do. • Your practice settings are remembered between visits: count-in, click, gap click, the tempo ramp, and the accented downbeat. • Better on the Mac — Drum Buddha installs under its own name, and the User Guide opens in your browser with tabs, search, and bookmarks. • A quiet note in Settings about the rest of the family: Guitar, Bass, and Ukulele Buddha. • The tip jar recovers: after a tip goes through — or doesn't — the jar opens normally again instead of staying stuck on the last attempt. • Smaller fixes throughout. As always: free, every feature unlocked, no account, no ads. ### 1.1 — 2026-07-25 A calm little update — polish and reliability, no new hoops. • A built-in User Guide, right in Settings — tips, tricks, and how everything works, without leaving the app. • Your library is safer: hardened storage protects your routines, loops, presets, and practice log if a save is ever interrupted. • A refreshed app icon, truer to the original brush-and-ink Buddha at the kit. • Drum Buddha now lets you know when a new version is on the App Store. As always: free, every feature unlocked, no account, no ads. ### 1.0 — 2026-07-15 No release notes. ## Apps similar to Lazy Lopez | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Riddiments — Drum Practice](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/riddiments-drum-practice/id6782253188) | 5.0 (1) | Free | Music | | [PocketChop](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pocketchop/id6770474050) | — | Free | Music | | [Ear Drum: Practice & Rudiments](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ear-drum-practice-and-rudiments/id6755543411) | 5.0 (5) | Free | Music | | [DrumShed](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/drumshed/id6760946271) | 5.0 (10) | Free | Music | | [Orbeat: Drum Machine](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/orbeat-drum-machine/id6783843640) | 5.0 (6) | Free | Music | | [Drum Journal: Practice Routine](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/drum-journal-practice-routine/id6758671743) | 5.0 (9) | Free | Music | ## More apps by Lazy Lopez Productions - [Lazy Lopez: Guitar](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lazy-lopez-guitar/id6778687475) - [Lazy Lopez: Ukulele](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lazy-lopez-ukulele/id6789009975) - [Lazy Lopez: Bass](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lazy-lopez-bass/id6789966674) - [Plant Buddha](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/plant-buddha/id6823655017) All apps by Lazy Lopez Productions: https://appshunter.io/developer/405581486 ## Related topics [the beat of the drums](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/the-beat-of-the-drums) · [drum beats count](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/drum-beats-count) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-11-13.*