Drum Notation by Beat Note vs RUN IT DOWN

Beat Note — Drum Notation for Drummers, Teachers, and Content Creators The fastest way to write, hear, practice, and share drum notation. Built by a drummer, for drummers. FOR DRUMMERS — FROM YOUR HEAD TO THE PAGE IN SECONDS You have a groove idea. Beat Note gets it down before you lose it. Tap the sequencer grid to build beats. Watch them turn into clean, professional drum notation in real time. Hit play and hear exactly what you wrote — at any tempo, with a click track, on loop. - Transcribe songs to check your ear and lock in what you hear - Compose your own grooves, fills, and exercises from scratch - Count in with a visual on-screen "1, 2, 3, 4" so your eyes and ears are ready together - Use Beat Note as your in-ear metronome during rehearsals — your beats, not just clicks "Been waiting a long time for an app like this. Clearly built by a drummer." — App Store review FOR TEACHERS — WRITE IT, PLAY IT, SEND IT What used to take 30 minutes in a desktop notation program now takes 2 minutes on your phone or iPad. Write exercises on the fly — during the lesson, not after it. Play back the notation so students hear exactly how it should sound. Share a link so they can listen at home. Export a PDF they can print and bring to the kit. - Use the sequencer as a live music whiteboard, in person or online - Build a library of exercises organized by tag, ready for any student - Send a shareable link or export a high-quality PDF in one tap "What would normally take 30 minutes on a computer has become 2 minutes from my mobile device. My students love it." — App Store review FOR CONTENT CREATORS — PROFESSIONAL NOTATION VIDEOS, IN MINUTES Export your beat as an animated MP4 — portrait for Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts, or landscape for YouTube and Vimeo. Choose 720p, 1080p, or 4K. Pick a color theme. Preview before you export. PDF, PNG, WAV or AAC audio, shareable link, and animated MP4 — all from one app. NOTATION THAT LOOKS RIGHT Professional drum notation, consistent across every format you export. What you see on screen is what your students get in the PDF, what your followers see in the video, and what you hear in playback. - All standard drums, cymbals, and articulations - Subdivisions from 8th notes to 32nd notes, plus triplets, quintuplets (5s), and septuplets (7s) - Common and compound time signatures, including 6/8, 9/8, and 12/8 - Linear, split hands/feet, or split drums/cymbals voicing - Sticking annotations (R, L) - Single-measure repeat symbol (%) — renders automatically when measures repeat ORGANIZE AND DISCOVER - Tags, search, and sort to manage your beat library - Discover tab: curated educational beats for all skill levels - Beat templates to get started fast - Customize tempo, click track, count-in, and timer MADE BY A DRUMMER, SHAPED BY THE COMMUNITY Beat Note was built by me — an independent developer with 35+ years behind the kit. But the direction comes from the community. Every major feature on the roadmap has been voted on, requested, and refined by drummers, teachers, and creators just like you. Join the conversation at roadmap.beat-note.app — vote on upcoming features, share ideas, and see what's coming next. I'm here to make sure it all comes together into something that actually works. Premium subscription required for full access. Educator and Creator tiers available. Free trial included. Payment is charged through your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription auto-renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period via iTunes Account Settings. Terms and Privacy Policy: https://www.beat-note.app/privacy-and-terms

It counts. You play. Play a song into your phone or add the file. In seconds RUN IT DOWN gives you the key, the tempo, the meter, where bar 1 is, and every section with its bar count. Made by drummer and MD Trevor Lawrence Jr. for every gig where the band gets the song an hour before downbeat. WHAT YOU GET KEY · TEMPO · METER in big type, with half time, double time and the relative key one tap away. Bar 1, found for you. Anything before it is the pickup (+1, +2), so the lead-in never counts as a bar. THE LINE: the whole form on one card, like INTRO 8 · V1 16 · HOOK 8 · BRIDGE 4 · VAMP · OUTRO. Odd-length sections, like a 7-bar bridge or a 10-bar outro, are marked in red so you see the watch-outs before you play them. THE STRIPS: one strip of tape per section, as long as its bar count and colored by repeat, so you see what comes back. Tap a strip to play from its bar 1. A bar counter while it plays that counts what THE LINE shows: V1 · 11/16, and HOOK 8 ×2 counts 1 to 8 twice. Section names in the band's words (INTRO, V1, PRE, HOOK, BRIDGE, VAMP, OUTRO…), or type your own: SHOUT, MODULATION, DRUM BREAK. Your names come back as buttons on every song. EVERY METER, BAR BY BAR 2/4 to 12/8. It hears odd meters like 5/4, 7/8 and 11/8 and counts the bars in them, and on a steady song it finds the bars the band plays in another meter, like two bars of 4/4 in a 7/8 tune. Set the time for a section, or for just THESE BARS: the bars after them move along, the way the band plays it. Count 7/8 your way: 2+2+3, 3+2+2 or 2+3+2. CLICK, COUNT IN and the counter follow, bar by bar. COUNT IN plays the first bar's meter or any meter you pick. RIDE Live take that rushes and drags? Turn RIDE ON and the bars, the counter and the click follow the band's own tempo. Or TAP IT IN: tap the beat through the part that floats, and RIDE lays the beats on your taps. RIDE OFF puts the steady count back. TWO WAYS IN LISTEN: play the song in the room, through the mic or an interface. It stops when the band stops and trims the silence. It tells you when to move closer. ADD SONG: any audio or video file, or share one from Files or Voice Memos. Apple Music and Spotify songs are locked to those apps: play them out loud and LISTEN. THE ONE Beat turned around? ◀ BEAT · TURN IT AROUND · BEAT ▶ moves bar 1 for the whole song; TRY THE OTHER ONE jumps to the app's second choice. Or COUNT IT OFF: tap the count on bar one with the record and every section re-counts from your one. PLAY + PRACTICE Back a bar, forward a bar, next section, and a strip of the song to scrub. Beat lights under the counter. LOOP the part you're learning. PRACTICE SPEED 50–100%, same pitch. CLICK is locked to the record's beat and plays straight 8THS or the BEAT, accents on or off, at every speed. FIX IT It's a fast first read, and your ears get the last word. Name any section (all its repeats at once, or just this one), set it to any length from 1 to 32 bars, add a note for the stand (HITS ON 4), split, merge, change the time signature, flip the key to its relative, name it C# or Db, halve or double the tempo. Every change is one tap to UNDO. When it's right, tap LOOKS RIGHT. MUSIC STAND Tap THE LINE and the whole song fills the screen with your notes, no scrolling. The part playing now is lit. The screen stays on, and playback keeps going if the phone locks. THE SET Your songs for the gig, in order. SAVE SET for Sunday, pull it back from SETS, CLEAR the pad for the next gig. COPY SHORTHAND One tap copies the title, key, tempo and the line as text, ready to paste in the group chat. PAD OR STAGE A yellow legal-pad look for the day, a dark STAGE look for the stage. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR PHONE No account. No sign-in. No ads. Every song is counted on-device and never uploaded, and it works in airplane mode. The microphone is on only while LISTEN is recording. PRICE The first 3 songs are free. After that, one payment of $0.99 unlocks every song, forever. No subscription, nothing renews.