Snare Essentials User Reviews

Name: Snare Essentials
Rating: 4.55556 (18 reviews)

Snare Essentials

SCOTTEG LLC

📚 Education

🎵 Music

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Please let me use more excersize

Don’t get me wrong Freestyle Ruidiments is great at snare and helped me a lot by posting with hos videos. However the app is really bad. You don’t get to choose the excersizes unless if you want to pay. As a 15 year old kid who loves drumming with no money this app is just unacceptable and needs many improvements

Screw up app

a year ago

Very confusing payment system.

I downloaded this app a while ago and played a bunch of exercises during the 7 day trial. After that I thought I could just buy the app, but I can’t. It says “buy or subscribe” but when I click on it it only lets me subscribe. Please remove the word buy or actually let me buy the app.

Apric1ty

a year ago

Response from developer

Totally valid and I apologize. I’ll update that button. Please contact us at support@snareessentials.com. We’d like to remedy this situation for you.

Great but

I’ve found this app to be very useful for teaching, but I wish I could adjust the starting tempo from the Home Screen. Every student needs a different range of tempos, and it makes no sense to have to go into settings every time (bonus would be saving settings for each student by name). Would also be nice if there was an option to have more than two lines of sticking displayed, and if the lines scrolled up instead of jumping.

paradiddler

a year ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the review! Great to hear the app has been useful for teaching. Definitely check out our new app, Drumr—we’ve added tempo controls to the main screen, and it scrolls the full score (or just the measures you’re looping). Plus, Drumr includes more marching snare exercises along with hundreds of drum kit grooves, exercises, and songs. And without saying too much, we hear you about adding more tools for instructors. Stay tuned!

10/10

i love using this app to play warmups i already know and new ones that i can learn in less then 5 minutes and start getting tempos up! one thing that i could ask for is snare breaks also on the app i’m not sure if that’s what you want on the app or not but it’s just something that i think you could add to it to make it an even better app!

drummer-77

a year ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the 5-star rating and feedback—great suggestion! Be sure to check out our new app, Drumr, for even more exercises. Happy drumming!

Great app, needs one feature!

I like the app a lot, only request would be to add a feature that changes the sticking from Right hand lead to left hand lead. I’m not sure if maybe I’m just not seeing that, but that would help a lot. Of course you could do this on your own with a metronome, but it would be nice if the app had it!

Snare essentials

2 years ago

Love the app just a few bug fixes I’d like to see

I have faith that they’ll come in time so that’s why I’m leaving this as 5 stars. Just a few bug fixes are what I’d like to see, namely at least in iOS everyone I hit the rewind button (the one left of the pause button) it full crashes and deletes the session every time. Also after that happens the ramp up button just straight up doesn’t work until you select a new tempo or finish a rep. The start over button is also suffering from the same problem at least for me. Hope to see fixes soon! Great app to practice to so you don’t have to program everything in like te tuner or smthn.

Ace.drums

2 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you for the 5-star rating, and your continued faith! We appreciate you bringing this to our attention. This issue was an unfortunate side effect of some code refactoring where something got overlooked. Really sorry about that! It’s a quick fix and we issued updates for all our apps that rely on this functionality. Please feel free to reach out to us directly for support if you encounter additional issues, or have feedback or suggestions: support@snareessentials.com. Thanks again!

PaulH

Snare Essentials is a versatile practice companion for anyone interested in marching snare . The App has excellent sound quality that offers a wide range of realistic drum sounds and a clean interface with easy-to-navigate exercises for quick and intuitive playing. You can also track your progress overtime with each exercise and set tempo ranges and reps for each practice session. The App has over 60 exercises that will help develop and build your chops.
The App developer is passionate about providing a phenomenal learning environment and customer service.

Big123#

2 years ago

Clean!!!

Geoff Fry has done an amazing thing for rudimental drummers and developed an app so well put together! Absolutely love this app! Drumming with a met that plays back with you, notations for exercises, instruction and has something for all skill levels. Recommend the lifetime subscription, well worth it.

Jonezy1980

2 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for your awesome review! We’re glad you’re enjoying Snare Essentials and finding the exercises and playback features helpful. It’s reviews like yours that inspire us to keep pushing forward, adding new features and content. Keep drumming, and thanks for being the best part of our community!

Superb Warm Up App

I absolutely LOVE this app!! It has become an essential part of my warm ups and snare exercise routine. IMO, Geoff has made studying rudimental style playing super easy. Love the current updates with being able to view the entire sheet music, along with some new exercises added. Definitely worth the monthly subscription!! Keep it coming!! 🥁

AnthonyW72

2 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the fantastic review! We're thrilled to hear that the app has become an essential part of your warm-up and snare practice routine. Geoff is passionate about making rudimental playing accessible, and it’s great to know the new updates and exercises are appreciated. Your support helps us to continue adding even more features and content. Stay tuned—there's more on the way!

I wish I didn’t have to pay money in a week.

This app is great! I will probably end up paying for it. One small thing to fix: when playing two camps or other similar things at higher tempos I can’t here the accents as much as I want to.

bored_wall

2 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the 5-star rating and kind words! We're glad you're enjoying the app. To address the cost, we offer a 7-day full-access trial. Even after the trial, you'll still have full access to the functionality with a limited set of exercises. Charging helps us continue improving and adding new content. The controls are velocity-based, adjusting how hard notes are played, which is different from volume. You can control the overall volume using your device's volume button. Adjusting both the velocity and volume together should allow you to get the distinct accents you want at the loudest volume your device can play them. For more details, check out this YouTube video: https://youtu.be/8DL6vAdARMo. If you have any questions, feel free to email us at support@snareessentials.com. We're here to help!