Fun but very limited if you don’t pay for subscription
I love this app/game but I’m noticing something I don’t like about it. Over the past few days I’m not able to play because challenges are not unlocked for me when I’m awake! The challenges have only been open during the night when I’m sleeping. It wasn’t always like this.
Timing is a muscle
I’ve been playing drums on and off for almost 30 years. I always believed I had good timing. Right away I could see that I was consistently dragging. Been playing this game and for the first time ever I’m cognizant of the time between moving my muscles and actual impact. This game is awesome.
The BEST (and only?) app for learning complex rhythms?
If you like Indian drumming, this app is amazing!
Great customer service.
Started to start a 7 day free trial and was charged. The app developer was very accommodating in helping me fix the issue. Five stars for customer service. Cool concept also just too expensive
Nice App
Still learning to count it, but I have great timing otherwise :)
Love but expensive
Love it and think it is a very useful tool for improvement
But could be a little cheaper
But could be a little cheaper
Timer is off
I tried the intro challenge but looks like the white dot is off. When I tapped in time, it showed I was early. If I tap a 16th late it says I’m right in the pocket. They may want to fix this.
Crazy expensive
100 a year for a beat tap game they have to be nuts to think anyone is paying that.
Wildly overpriced
For $20/month you can get a Codex account and make
your own app, customized however you’d like.
your own app, customized however you’d like.
Indian taditional-style rhythmic puzzles
I have always been drawn to the idea of studying Indian classical music because of the secure rhythmic sense I know I would attain from the practice. Obviously, playing this game is not the same as actually studying the tradition, but it gives you a little taste of it. What you do is learn to play tihai-s, which are rhythmic cadences based on playing the same phrase three times, in different metric orientations, landing ultimately on the “one.” These are really tricky and fun to learn. Like learning tongue-twisters. Every day, the app offers you a new selection of tihai-s to try: easy, medium, and hard. It is not clear whether there will be a an unlimited number of new ones issued daily, or if at some point they will start repeating. (This would be good to know, before investing in a year-long subscription!)
The rhythmic cycle is represented with a polyhedron which you travel around—“follow-the-bouncing-ball” style. It is very nice, super clear. I believe in traditional music apprenticeship, you learn to count the rhythmic cycle on your fingers. This is a graphical representation of that. It works well.
As you learn to tap the pattern on your phone, the app measures your rhythmic accuracy in milliseconds. It is surprising how far off you can be, when you think you are “on”—particularly on the off-beats.
I will say that I have noticed my iPhone sometimes has trouble registering taps accurately when I use two fingers instead of one. It seems to need to register all the taps in the same place. I imagine that a major challenge for this app resides in the hardware. Phones aren’t designed for ultra-accurate rhythmic registry. Nonetheless, it seems to work well, provided you tap with one finger in the same spot.
The rhythmic cycle is represented with a polyhedron which you travel around—“follow-the-bouncing-ball” style. It is very nice, super clear. I believe in traditional music apprenticeship, you learn to count the rhythmic cycle on your fingers. This is a graphical representation of that. It works well.
As you learn to tap the pattern on your phone, the app measures your rhythmic accuracy in milliseconds. It is surprising how far off you can be, when you think you are “on”—particularly on the off-beats.
I will say that I have noticed my iPhone sometimes has trouble registering taps accurately when I use two fingers instead of one. It seems to need to register all the taps in the same place. I imagine that a major challenge for this app resides in the hardware. Phones aren’t designed for ultra-accurate rhythmic registry. Nonetheless, it seems to work well, provided you tap with one finger in the same spot.
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AWESOME concept, waiting for it to be better
This is a super cool app! Unfortunately, on my device, the taps seem out of sync. Every time I would calibrate in the app, I would get a different result. Mind you, I’m a classically trained pianist who studies music at university—been playing for twelve years. Who knows, it could be just a quirk on my device or maybe my screen protector is too think hahaha. Will definitely try again in the future but for now it doesn’t seem to work great :(
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Does not correctly show where I tapped
Does not correctly show where I tapped
Tapping on the phone is wildly inconsistent on iPhone 16
Not a tool for learning precise rhythm, sorry. Calibrating ranges +\- 50ms which is…simply not good enough. Haptic doesn’t work at all.
Great concept, but plays like a video game
Lovely look and feel, with different challenge levels each day. Rhythm input is by tapping the screen, which really made the whole thing feel like a video game instead of a training tool. I feel like I have it a fair shot during the free trial period, and seriously considered paying the ($$$) price of the app despite my qualms about all the tapping, but within a few days the interface seemed to degrade, tap timing accuracy getting worse and worse, which defeats the purpose of the app, and the calibration function would not work. Tried restarting my phone and even removing/ reinstalling the app, but kept having the same problem. Ultimately I was already feeling like the tapping play input was more of a time suck and a distraction from real rhythm practice that I want doing on my instrument while I sat in a chair tapping on my phone, and gave up on the calibration issues. I feel like this app could be extremely useful and worth the $$$ if it could work with a microphone input, and I’ll surely be back if that is added.
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Very bad subscription team!!
I have sent several emails and reached out to customer service because I was charged for the subscription $100 for the year and I still have yet to be able to activate my subscription and benefit from it and that was two months ago
Great game! Can’t justify the cost…
I love this game, honestly, I have struggled allot with rhythms within my musicianship and this has been helping me quite allot. It also fostered and furthered my interest in traditional Indian rhythms.
I loved the game during the free trial period and even still play it daily with the unpaid version.
That all being said, I cannot justify the amount that the subscription costs. For how much you get, I don’t think it’s worth the money.
Perhaps if it were more robust, or you could review previous days, or if there were lessons on the traditional rhythms, I would be able to justify it, but in its present state, just being daily rhythms and the ability to talk to other app users. It’s not worth it.
Great concept! And can’t wait to see how they expand on the app! But for now, I would say just use the free version until they adjust prices or seriously upgrade the app.
I loved the game during the free trial period and even still play it daily with the unpaid version.
That all being said, I cannot justify the amount that the subscription costs. For how much you get, I don’t think it’s worth the money.
Perhaps if it were more robust, or you could review previous days, or if there were lessons on the traditional rhythms, I would be able to justify it, but in its present state, just being daily rhythms and the ability to talk to other app users. It’s not worth it.
Great concept! And can’t wait to see how they expand on the app! But for now, I would say just use the free version until they adjust prices or seriously upgrade the app.
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They actually want to charge 99 per Device ? That’s day light robbery
I paid when I downloaded on my iPhone.. now my iPad using the same Apple ID says I am not subscribed.
Great idea
I’ve started using this as a practice tool. I would love to see an implementation using the mic. I’d want to clap or play notes on my bass rather than tapping the phone.
Very helpful
This is a great introduction to Indian time cycles . Fun app and is helping me as I dive into this wonderful music. Also great for meditation
i like it! but…
Just wish it wasn’t a subscription, I’d rather deal with ads :P love the concept and how nice and clean the UI is. great job.
