OFFBEAT vs Super Simple Drum

OFFBEAT is a rhythm training app built for ska punk and jazz musicians. ■ Train the "gap" a metronome can't teach you Just tapping along with a metronome doesn't build the feel you need on stage. OFFBEAT focuses on the genre-specific placement of rhythm — offbeats only, the third note of the swing triplet, the 2 & 4 backbeat — and visualizes your timing error in milliseconds. ■ 6 specialized training modes - Offbeat Master — the 8th-note offbeat that underpins ska cutting - Swing Pocket — the "third triplet" feel of jazz time - 2 & 4 Backbeat — the shared backbone of jazz and ska - Silent Keep — hold your internal groove through bars of silence - Tempo Sprint — survive accelerating tempos without rushing - Call & Response — hear a phrase, play it back ■ Practise with real instrument sounds Tap "Sound" on the start screen to switch from the click to recorded drums, bass, guitar or percussion (the choices depend on the mode). Available in the two free modes too. ■ Laid-back Pack (sold separately) Practise placing your notes a set amount behind a band that stays on the beat. Work through three styles (Bass Pocket, Drag Backbeat, Swing 16) from a drum-and-bass guide to playing on your own. The app checks your average position, spread and drift to show whether you sit back and whether you hold that spot. You can try the introduction and the comparison before buying. ■ Output latency calibration Measures the output delay of your earphones/speaker and folds it into the judgment, resolving the feeling of being "off" when you're actually on time. That said, since Bluetooth latency itself fluctuates, please use wired earphones or a speaker. ■ Built to keep you coming back - Three 30-day lesson courses (All-round / Ska focus / Jazz focus) - Day-streak tracking with a weekly one-day protection freeze - Timing diagnosis after every session: are you rushing or dragging? - Score, accuracy and average offset recorded every run [Pricing] - The app is free to download. - "Offbeat Master" and "Swing Pocket" are free forever, with no time limit. - Base pack (one-time purchase): unlocks the other four modes (2 & 4 Backbeat, Silent Keep, Tempo Sprint, Call & Response) and the three 30-day lesson courses (All-round, Ska, Jazz). - Laid-back Pack (one-time purchase): unlocks the three Laid-back styles (Bass Pocket, Drag Backbeat, Swing 16). It is separate from the base pack and can be bought on its own. - Neither is a subscription. Once you buy one, the content listed for it is yours to keep. - After reinstalling or switching devices, use "Restore Purchase" in Settings. ■ Privacy All play data stays on your device. Nothing is transmitted (see the privacy policy for details). For you if: - You play in (or want to join) a ska punk or jazz band - You can follow a metronome but can't sit in the groove - You've ever been told you rush on the offbeats - You want to sit behind the beat, not just on it — From the developer I've played in a ska punk band and spent years touring the jazz cafés of Japan, yet I never trusted my own sense of rhythm. Metronomes and method books didn't fix it. "It isn't talent — there has to be a way to train this." So I built it with the one skill I did have: programming. That's how OFFBEAT began. Not for people who already have rhythm, but for those who struggle, like I did. Starting with ska and jazz — and someday, for every player, in every genre.

A bar is a word. A phrase is a sentence. Super Simple Drum teaches the drums the way a good teacher does: one groove, one fill, one bar at a time, until you can play the whole song. GROOVES & FILLS FOR EVERY STYLE 2,035 grooves and fills in 62 styles: rock, metal, punk, funk, disco, Motown, hip-hop, R&B, gospel, neo soul, shuffle, jazz swing, big band, bossa nova, samba, salsa, reggae, ska, drum & bass, paradiddles on the kit, polyrhythms and more. Every bar opens in a practice room with a click, a count-in and a tempo trainer, and a 3D drum kit on iPad. Two grooves and two fills of every style are free, and one more bar of your genre opens every day you come in. SIGNATURE: THE BARS SONGS ARE KNOWN BY 993 signature grooves and fills in 13 genres: the part one song is known by, which hardly any other song plays. Hear every one for free, learn them to grow your drum vocabulary, and build songs out of them. SCAN YOUR OWN DRUM CHARTS Choose a PDF, pick a photo or point the camera at a printed drum chart. Every bar is read into a song you can hear, check against your page and put right where it needs it. Bring in MusicXML and MIDI files too, with the rest of the band playing underneath. PLAY ALONG WITH THE RECORD Find the song on YouTube and the AI lines your chart up with the drums in the recording, bar by bar, so the score follows the record while you play. PRACTICE A SONG PART BY PART Every song becomes a course: first the groove it is mostly made of, then the fills and the parts that change, each with easier versions, in the order a teacher would teach them. Then play it from top to bottom. A PRACTICE ROOM BUILT FOR DRUMMERS - Tempo steps from 60% to 110% of the target, and a speed trainer - Click on beats, eighths or sixteenths, a count-in, and silent bars to test your time - Drum sheet notation or a lane grid, with the count and the sticking under the notes - The app plays the whole kit, the hands, the feet, or nothing at all - GOT IT when you play a whole pass as written, and it is saved to your collection - Connect an electronic drum kit over USB MIDI and see how close every hit lands TAP PRACTICE, NO KIT NEEDED (iPhone) Train your left and right hands on the glass. Every note has its hand, the wrong hand counts as a miss, and four clean bars take the tempo up. Calibrated to your phone and timed to the millisecond. BUILD A SONG Turn a style, or the bars you have saved, into a full song with verses, choruses and fills, and practice it all the way through. YOUR PLAN FOR TODAY Three things to play every day, sized to the minutes you have, a weekly goal of four days, and a daily reminder. PAY ONCE, KEEP IT No subscription. Unlock what you want, once: - Grooves & Fills: every groove and fill in every style - Signature: all 993 signature grooves and fills - Add a Song: keep every chart you scan or import, each with its course - Everything: all three together, for less