Loopie Sessions vs Drumline

Practice, create and share West African rhythms with a global drumming community. PLAY Practice your favourite West African rhythms and discover new ones, with a shared library from drummers around the world and options to visualise ballet-style duns. CREATE Build and save your own solos, accompaniments and variations with flexible time signatures and more control over parts. COLLABORATE Share rhythms, variations, and solos with the Loopie community, discover what others have published, and star and comment on other players’ creations. — CORE FUNCTIONALITY Loopie gives you everything you need to learn, practise and play West African rhythms with confidence: ● Play djembe, dundun, sangban, kenkeni and bell parts ● Follow clear, interactive notation as each rhythm plays ● Tap through variations, adjust tempos and loop rhythms for focused practice ● Enjoy high-quality, realistic percussive sound ● Explore a growing library of traditional rhythms ● Save favourites and your own rhythms for easy access ● Access the app and all its content free, with no subscriptions or paywalls ● Enjoy an ad-free experience with no third-party trackers or analytics.

Drumline is an offline-first Batucada (Brazilian samba percussion) rhythm library, editor, and practice tool. Write grooves and breaks for a full bateria, hear them played back with sample-accurate timing, and share them with your group. RHYTHM LIBRARY - Build a library of rhythms, each with its base groove and its own set of breaks - Import and export rhythms to share with your bateria - Simple and Advanced modes - start easy, unlock the full editor when you want it PLAYBACK - Sample-accurate native audio engine with real percussion samples - Queue breaks on the fly, with calling audio and synced count-in whistles, just like a real ensemble - On-screen break notes so you know what is coming - Tempo control, tap tempo, and a metronome PRACTICE PLAYLISTS - Chain breaks in sequence, or shuffle them to train reaction time - Choose which breaks are in the rotation and how many bars sit between them MIXER - Per-instrument volume, mute and solo - Save your mix and reuse it EDITOR - Grid-based pattern editor for every instrument in the bateria - Rolls, flams, velocity accents, and per-instrument beat subdivisions (including triplets) - Multiple time signatures and multi-bar patterns - Copy, paste, insert and clear bars, with undo and redo - Pickup-bar breaks that start on beat 4 of the count-in INSTRUMENTS - Caixa, Repinique, Fundu, Dobrada, Timbao, Pandeiro, Agogo, Shaker and whistle, each with its own articulations - Add your own samples to any articulation EXPORT & SHARE - Export any break, sequence, or groove as a WAV audio file - Generate printable PDF notation - Record your own audio takes with the microphone Works completely offline. No account, no ads, no data collection.