GrooveSmith vs Drumsheet Scanner

You sit down at the kit — and play the same three beats you always play. GrooveSmith solves the hardest part of practising alone: deciding what to play. Tap once and you get a fresh practice sheet — a groove flowing into a fill — written out properly, with the audio to match. Not a random note generator: every combination is checked so it sounds like real drumming. YOU DON'T HAVE TO READ MUSIC If you read charts, this is a chart. If you don't, turn on labels and the notes tell you which drum to hit — so you're learning real notation from day one, not a simplified version you'd have to unlearn later. IT GROWS WITH YOU Ten levels, from your very first beat to material you'll have to work at. Each one adds a single new idea instead of a wall, so the next level always feels like the next step — not a cliff. BUILT FOR PLAYING ALONG, NOT WATCHING Hit play and the drums, the click and a moving cursor stay locked together. Change tempo without stopping. Count yourself in. Mute the kit and keep the click, or the other way round. FILLS, AND THE RUDIMENTS YOU KEEP MEANING TO WORK ON Short pickups or a full bar, with the sticking written in so you're never guessing which hand leads. Paradiddles, flams, rolls — properly notated. FITS THE WAY YOU ALREADY PRACTISE Play something once or twenty times. Slow it right down, stop halfway, come back tomorrow. There's no course to work through and no streak to keep — you decide what counts as progress. Rock and pop, straight, half-time or shuffle — and 6/8 and 12/8 when you want them. Works offline. No account, no ads, nothing to sign up for. Made by a drummer who got bored of his own practice routine.

Photograph a page of drum notation and hear it play. DrumSheetScanner reads a printed drum chart from a photo: it finds the staves, the bars and every notehead, reads the title, tempo and time signature, and turns the page into a song you can play, correct and export. Everything runs on your iPhone, offline. SCAN A REAL PAGE • Photograph the sheet on your stand or desk, or pick one from Photos, even a small picture forwarded from a messenger. • The page is found and straightened for you. If the edge cannot be seen, such as white paper on a white table, drag the corners into place and it is read again. • Songs of several pages stay together, in the order you choose. • Reads 4/4, 6/8 and triplets, open and closed hi-hats, crash, ride, three toms, snare and kick. HEAR IT, FOLLOW IT • Playback with a real drum kit from a bundled SoundFont, full or simple. • On the Sheet, the cursor runs along the photo of your page, so you see where the music is. • A metronome, and a tempo trainer that raises the tempo step by step while you play. LOOP WHAT YOU'RE LEARNING • Long-press a bar, tap more, and only those bars play, round and round, even across lines and pages. FIX ANYTHING BY TAPPING • Every bar lands in a step grid. Tap a cell to add or remove a hit, set accents and ghost notes, change tempo, time signature and resolution. • Split a bar the scan merged, delete a bar, or remove every empty bar in one go. YOUR SONGS, KEPT • Every scan is a session you can come back to. Your original photos are kept, so a newer version of the app can read a song again without new photos. EXPORT • Standard MIDI files for your DAW, MuseScore or GarageBand. • Lossless WAV audio to share or practise along with. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no ads, no in-app purchases. • Scanning, text recognition, playback and export all happen on your iPhone. Nothing is uploaded unless you share it yourself. No scanner reads every chart perfectly. When a page comes out wrong, Export → Help improve recognition sends the developer that page and your fixes, so a later version reads it better. For drummers, students and teachers who want to hear a groove before they play it, and practise the hard bars on repeat.