PercussionTutor User Reviews

Name: PercussionTutor
Rating: 4.9 (260 reviews)

PercussionTutor

Laurent Peckels

📚 Education

🎵 Music

What users say

Summarized from real user reviews of PercussionTutor. Based on 260 reviews and a 4.9/5 average, it highlights the 12 positives and 11 negatives reviewers mention most about this Music app.

Positive things

🎵Authentic recordings by real musicians, not MIDI sequences
👍Easy to use and intuitive interface
🎓Excellent educational resource with detailed sheet music and videos
🔊High-quality sound and professional production
🎯Ability to mute individual instruments for focused practice
💰Outstanding value for the price
🌍Comprehensive collection of Latin, African, and Brazilian rhythms
🎬Accompanying instructional videos demonstrating proper technique
📊Detailed historical and cultural information for each rhythm
🎹Versatile tool for musicians across different instruments
🔄Loop variations that provide musical interest and realism
✅No intrusive in-app purchases

Negative things

🐛Timing misalignment with metronome in some rhythms
🔊Audio distortion when tempo is increased moderately
🎵Pitch changes when adjusting tempo (no time-stretching)
📱Crashes when using external USB audio interfaces
🔇No individual volume control for instruments
⚠️Some Brazilian rhythms poorly executed (Maracatu, Samba Reggae)
🎚️Limited tempo range for some rhythms
💥App crashes when switching between other audio apps
🎯Audio loss when changing audio apps and returning
📊Transient smearing when slowing tempo significantly
🔊Some conga players rush slightly

Top reviews

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Splendid

Great selection of impeccably recorded grooves, with notation and in well-written descriptions. So glad I found this.

B'bba

3 months ago

Fantastic Resource!

This is one of the most used apps on my phone, fantastic resource and play-a-long. Love it!

Schment

7 months ago

Potentially the best app for latin rhythms.

I love this app!!! I use it for practice and to work through ideas for song writing. It’s my practice buddy, my play-along backing track, and my study partner. I really hope you keep adding more rhythms. This app is a masterpiece thank you.

HermanEC

8 months ago

Superb resource

I am a lecturer at a major Music college in the UK. I recommend this app to all of my students who are interested in Latin music. The level of detail and the quality of the research is absolutely superb.

Mary Laing

a year ago

Nice!!

Simple and easy to use, with great sounding loops by real musicians. If you're planning on expanding your Brazilian offerings, I'd love to see choro genres (slow choro, fast choro, maxixe, polca, xote, etc) plus forró! eBatuque recently jacked up its prices and switched to a subscription model, so if you guys offered an alternative I'd happily recommend this app to all the choro players I know.

julia254#

a year ago

Must have

Appli indispensable à tout percussionniste ou passionné de rythme

midico

a year ago

Great!

Great for practice and play along. Hopefully more rhythms available soon. Could definitively use a bar going through the sheet music to see in real time where the beats are.

citi customer service

a year ago

So worth it!

Actually has feel, because these are recordings of actual musicians playing all the parts, not midi sequences. Each loop is of ample length - sometimes longer to get some variation when applicable - for instance guanguanco loop is longer to allow quinto doing some soloing and variation. There is the ability to mute each part, change tempo (some digital artifacts of course, since these are recordings being slowed down or sped up, not midi sequences, but very usable). Many other features like every part notated, and videos of musicians playing the parts. I haven’t come across in-app purchases, also great.

Jano, shuitar enthusiast

a year ago

Get’s me Going…and that’s Great!

I’m an older person taking conga lessons. This app is invaluable at helping me understand the music; learn parts, and keep and exceed pace. Excellent.!

The Drumbird

a year ago

Ruim

Eles deviam pelo menos indicar que nao é pra iniciantes

Mariana-abrantes

a year ago

Potentially the best app for latin rhythms.

I love this app for practice and to work through ideas. Its my practice buddy, my play-along backing track, and my study partner. I really hope you keep adding more rhythms and variations to the rhythms you already have. Please add rhythms from Colombia and other countries. Having Cumbia and other traditional rhythms like Bullerengue, Vallenato, Porro, and Currulao would be magical!

HermanEC

2 years ago

Indispensable

Un magnifique travail concentré dans cette appli indispensable pour tout percussionniste. Bluffant.

palm3

2 years ago

Great app found but found a mistake

Hello the sheet music for the clave Tiñosa is incorrect

enriqurp1324

2 years ago

Time doesn’t line up with metronome….

Time doesn’t line up with metronome…. It is like 2 clicks ahead of metronomes markings, it doesn’t line up with prerecorded midi stuff. This thing is off. Also instruments distort when speed up( moderately) , not good. I only used the plena rhythm , it looks ok when starts but need work with distorting instruments and quantize needs work too. Don’t purchase this.

salsablues

2 years ago

Response from developer

Hello, I’m sorry tho hear that this is the your take on Percussiontutor. First of all we are not using midi at all. When we launched the app 10 years ago we made the choice to only record live performances and make perfect audio loops. Only the metronome click is added. Would be great if you could - send us the list of rhythms that seem off (you only used plena out of > 100 examples? - 2 clicks ahead? No way because … there is NO click in Plena. So? Strange review … - did you use bluetooth or airplay Timestretching works fine when speeding up but I agree it doesn’t work well when slowing down. Would be nice also to contact us before giving a 2 star review for an app that is a reference for many years and hast constantly had excellent reviews. Finally no problem on our side refunding you. Best, PercussionTutor team

Very poor Brazil section.

Major Afro rhythms such as Maracatu and Samba Reggae are done really badly. Samba reggae with two surdos just marking the pulse and a drum kit? Maracatu with a drum kit and a whistle? It’s embarrassing.

Roboll

2 years ago

Response from developer

It’s not please take a look at the musicians who recorded all the rhythms, only renowned players. Getting the feeling that some reviews are orchestrated by competitors. Little bit sad to read. Feel free to ask for a refund.

What a perfect tool to improve our learning

What a great team work, thank you very very much. Maybe 3 years after it is time to add more materials don’t you think ?? It would be highly appreciated by our community… please🙏. Arnaud. F from Paris France

Vrln

2 years ago

Bachata???

Ich habe es wegen bacheara gekauft und es hat keine einzige Empfehlung und Lektion 😩😏👀🥸.

I bought it for Bachata, but it doesn't have a single Bachata recommendation or lesson. 😕😫😤🥸🤡
Please add bachata🙏🙏🙏

weegomez

2 years ago

Response from developer

Sorry to hear that but Bachata isn’t listed anywhere on the App Store or on percussiontutor.com as being part of the app. Not sure why you thought it was included. There is always the option to ask for a refund. Best, Laurent

A must have for anyone interested in rhythm

The ability to solo each instrument or several instruments in an ensemble and play along is priceless. The accompanying videos and sheet music is unbelievable given the low price of the Pro app. I’ve enjoyed it for years and decided I had to write review. This is one of those rare apps where the love of the music and the subject comes thru.

btxpress1

3 years ago

Awesome App

This is an awesome app. You can learn a lot of different patters with the right feel and dynamics.

rey monroig

3 years ago

Lovely app, informative and very useful.

It has a wide variety of genres and cultural styles and I use it every day for practise. There are a couple of issues. When slowing down the tempo too much, you get some transient smearing which can blur some of the rhythm's attacks but kept near the original tempo its not too bad. The app now and again can crash when opening another app. When changing another audio app and back it can loose the audio of the current rhythm. By going back to list of rhythms and choosing the same rhythm restores the audio. Despite these small issues I really enjoy jamming along the rhythms.

Pereshaped