A calmer way to sit down at your drums.
Learn grooves from real notation. Keep time with a metronome worth its own tab. Capture the beat you just tapped on your knees. Drum Buddha is a practice room that stays out of your way.
no streaks. no scores. just the groove.
Free, forever. No account, ever.
Gabe.
Learn a groove. Tap out an idea. Sit down and play.
Built around how you actually practice.
Nothing tracks you. Nothing nags you. Everything stays on your device.
197 patterns, in real notation.
A bundled catalog of original grooves across 17 styles — rock, funk, jazz, Latin, Afro-Cuban, hip-hop, reggae and more — every one written in standard drum notation. Mute or solo any voice to isolate a limb: kick alone, then add the snare, then the hats. Slow it down, loop it, record a take against it, or open the grid editor and build your own.
A metronome worth its own tab.
Big, tappable BPM. Odd meters and subdivisions. Gap click to test your own time, a tempo ramp with no fail state, and a silent visual pulse for late-night practice-pad work.
A band that waits for you.
Flip the script: here you're the drummer, so bass and keys vamp and wait for your count-in. Pick a style and a key, set the tempo, then record yourself over the top.
The 40 rudiments, drilled.
All 40 PAS rudiments with notation, sticking and playback at your pace — the drummer's answer to a chord library. Plus a fills shelf, limb-independence drills, loops, and quiet practice routines.
Catch the beat before it's gone.
Voice memos and notes for the beat you just tapped on your knees. Trim, slow it down, revisit. Deleted takes are recoverable for 30 days.
Made for the in-between moments.
The practice-pad ten minutes. The basement kit at 11pm. The beat you tapped out on your knees on the bus.
On your wrist, when your hands are full.
The tools you reach for most — the metronome, quick launches, a running session on your Lock Screen — one glance away.
A metronome on your wrist.
Spin the Crown to set the tempo. Feel every beat as a haptic tap — genuinely made for drummers, no need to look down.
One tap to what you reach for.
Jump straight into Pulse, your grooves, or a jam — right from the home screen, no digging through the app.
Right on your Lock Screen.
A running metronome, take, or practice session shows up on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island — so the count keeps going while you do.
Nothing leaves your phone.
No accounts. No syncing to "the cloud." No data sold or shared. Your grooves, your ideas, your takes — all yours, on your device.
- No accounts, ever. Open the app and you're already in.
- No telemetry by default. Leave the toggle off and we receive nothing at all. Opt in and we see anonymous counts — app opens, a groove's style and tempo — never your audio, your notes, or the names of anything you made.
- No internet required. Works in the basement, on the porch, off-grid.
- Your takes stay on your device. Mic audio never leaves. Export to share — never automatic.
Free, with a tip jar.
Every feature, unlocked from day one. No subscription. No paywall. No ads tracking you between sessions.
Pick the room you're playing in.
The app ships with four themes. Try them right here — your selection follows you down the page.
I built Drum Buddha for the version of me who sits down at the kit at 11pm, plays for forty minutes, and forgets what he was working on by Tuesday. It's a place to put the practice. Quietly. Without anyone counting.