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The Coach tab provides an AI-powered practice assistant. Ask it about your practice progress, what to work on next, your strongest areas, areas needing improvement, tempo guidance, recommended scores, practice tips, playlists, and how to use the app. Coach requires Apple Intelligence.
Example questions:
If you have practice history, Coach looks at your recent sessions to identify your most-practiced scores, cleanest results, tempo progress, and useful next steps. It uses recent tempo, accuracy, difficulty, instrument category, and score family to choose connected recommendations.
If you have no practice history, Coach shows starter scores for the Library instrument category you've selected. With no selected category, it starts with one kit score, one snare score, and one rudiment score.
Coach focuses on practice progression — tempo ramps, repetitions, and technique focus. Charts are playalong-only and don't fit that progression model, so they don't drive recommendations. Your chart practice still counts toward practice-time totals and rings.
The Home screen shows:
Open Library, tap the Imports collection, then tap + at the bottom. Select a .drumr file from the file picker. You'll be prompted to choose which instrument the score is for: Drum Kit, Marching Snare, Marching Tenors, or Marching Bassline. Visit drumr.app/imports to create Drumr files and download templates.
Drumr uses the .drumr file format. Visit drumr.app/imports to create Drumr files and download templates.
Imported scores live in Library as the Imports collection. Open Library and tap Imports to browse, open, delete, or add more .drumr files. Imports follows the Library category selected before opening it. Recent imports can also appear on Home.
Improvisation is what comes out when you have a deep rhythmic vocabulary in your hands. Every groove, fill, and rudiment you internalize becomes a phrase you can pull out in the moment. Drumr is built around real notation and real material — that's how you build the vocabulary to play freely.
Collections group scores in the Library tab into eight cards: All, Courses, Exercises, Favorites, Grooves & Fills, Songs, Imports, and New. Tap a card to drill into that group. The instrument picker above the cards scopes Library-score collections to a specific instrument category. Imports follows the selected Library category when you open it and doesn't use proficiency.
The badge on the New collection shows how many recently added scores you haven't opened in New yet. Open Library, tap New, and Drumr marks the currently visible New scores as seen. When new scores are added later, the badge comes back for those scores.
Favorites is now a card in the Library tab. Open Library and tap Favorites to see all the scores you've starred.
Tap the measures button (rectangle with lines) in the top toolbar. In Measure Controls you can toggle single measure mode to loop one measure, or use sliders and steppers to adjust the range of measures to practice.
Tap the measures button (rectangle with lines) in the top toolbar to open Measure Controls. With single measure mode OFF:
Single measure mode is a toggle in Measure Controls that lets you practice one measure at a time repeatedly. When enabled, the range slider becomes a single-value slider to select which measure to loop.
Yes. Charts mix freely with other scores in any playlist. If your playlist contains one or more charts, the playlist card shows a chart indicator.
In the Playlists tab, tap + at the bottom of the screen. Enter a name for your playlist and tap Create.
In Settings → Playlists, tap "Curated Playlists". You can show or hide all playlists in a category, or toggle individual playlists.
Open a playlist and tap + at the bottom to browse and add scores.
Open a playlist, long-press a score (or right-click on Mac), and tap Delete. The score is removed from the playlist; it isn't deleted from your library.
In the Playlists tab, long-press a playlist (or right-click on Mac) and tap Delete. Confirm deletion in the alert that appears.
In the Playlists tab, long-press a playlist (or right-click on Mac) and tap Edit. Drag playlists into the order you want, then tap Done.
Open a playlist, long-press a score (or right-click on Mac), and tap Edit. Drag scores into the order you want, then tap Done.
From the Home screen, tap a score in Recent Activity to view its practice sessions. Swipe left (iPhone/iPad) or right-click (Mac) on a session and tap the trash icon.
From the Home screen, tap a score in Recent Activity to view its practice sessions. Tap a session to view details, then tap the share button in the top-right corner.
A chart is a song with slash notation and rhythmic figures, played along to a backing track. Charts are perfect for jamming, sight-reading practice, and playing through a tune end-to-end. They appear alongside your other scores in the Library tab — a music-pages icon on the score card indicates a chart.
Yes. Tap the star on any chart to favorite it, just like other scores.
In the Library tab, tap a collection (such as All), then open the Tags filter and select Chart under the Routines group. Your list will show only charts.
Tap the tempo gauge to open Tempo Controls, and use the slider or stepper buttons to adjust the reps.
In Linear mode: Use the - and + buttons around the tempo gauge to decrease or increase tempo by 1 BPM. Tap the tempo gauge itself to open Tempo Controls for more options including a slider and stepper.
In Increasing mode: Use the ◀ and ▶ buttons to jump to the previous or next tempo in your defined range.
Tap ↺ in the bottom toolbar to restart the score from the beginning of your selected measure range.
Use ← and → in the bottom toolbar. For scores with defined sections, these skip between sections. For other scores, they skip by your selected measure range.
Tap the metronome icon in the player's top toolbar. A filled metronome icon indicates the metronome is active.
In Settings → Metronome, you can adjust volume and sound options.
The count-in plays metronome clicks before the score starts to help you lock in to the tempo and get ready to play. Toggle it with ⏱ in the top toolbar.
While playing a score, tap ★ in the top toolbar. A filled star means the score is favorited, an outlined star means it is not.
You can also favorite from a Library collection: long-press a score (or right-click on Mac) and tap Favorite.
To see all your favorited scores in one place, open the Library tab and tap the Favorites card.
While viewing a score, tap the pencil icon in the bottom-right corner to open a notes sheet. Your notes are saved automatically when you close the sheet.
Tap the display mode button in the player's top toolbar to cycle between sheet music, KitView for drum kit scores, PadView for rudiments scores, BasslineView for marching bassline scores, or lesson video — depending on what's available for the score.
Open a score in the Rudiments category and tap the display mode button in the player's top toolbar. PadView is only available for rudiments scores. It shows a single practice pad with right-hand, left-hand, and unison hits in time with playback.
Say phrases like:
Siri opens the matching Library view. For beginner, intermediate, or advanced scores, Siri asks which collection to show. For phrases ending in "scores", use "find", "search for", or "show".
Yes. Open a score in Practice or Playalong, then say "Hey Siri, play", "Hey Siri, pause", or "Hey Siri, stop". This also works from the lock screen, AirPods, and Apple Watch.
With "... in Drumr", "open", "practice", and "play" are Library search phrases: "Hey Siri, play disco in Drumr" or "Hey Siri, open independence drills in Drumr".
Bare "Hey Siri, play" is different: after a score is open, it controls playback.
Tap ⚙ in the top-right corner of most screens to open Settings.
In Settings → Performance Analysis, set "Source:" to E-Drums (electronic drums via MIDI), Mic (microphone), or Off. Enabling analysis disables instrument layers. Choosing Mic turns video recording off; E-Drums can be used with video recording.
When Mic is selected as the performance source, a "Calibrate and test" option appears. Use AirPods or Apple wired headphones for mic-based Performance Analysis. This screen lets you verify headphones are connected, calibrate timing, see when your current headphones were last calibrated, review and remove calibrations for devices you no longer use, and test hit detection.
Calibration is saved per device. When you switch headphones, Drumr automatically uses the saved calibration for that pair — no need to recalibrate every time you swap. If you connect uncalibrated headphones while a score is open, Drumr disables Performance Analysis for that session and shows a "Calibration Needed" notice so your results aren't skewed.
Use AirPods or Apple wired headphones. Third-party headphones, earbuds, USB-C audio devices, and adapter-based headphone routes are not supported because iOS can expose their microphone and output routing differently.
Go to Settings → Performance Analysis → E-Drums → Test E-Drums. Hit any pad and a green circle lights up and displays the MIDI note number detected.
In Settings → Drums, use the "Drum kit:" picker to choose your preferred kit sound.
To mute all drums: In Settings → Drums, toggle "Mute drum sounds:" ON.
To mute specific instruments (drum kit scores only): In Settings → Drums, enable "Show instrument layers:". Then in the player (landscape), tap the instrument buttons to toggle each on or off.
Instrument layers show the individual drum parts on separate notation lines for drum kit scores. Toggle "Show instrument layers:" in Settings → Drums.
In Settings → Metronome, choose sounds for drum kit scores (Beeps or Woodblocks) and drumline scores (Beeps, Kick & Snare, or Woodblocks).
Toggle "Keep screen on:" in Settings → System to prevent the screen from dimming or turning off while practicing.
In Settings → Recording, toggle "Video recording mode:" ON. This enables screen recording during practice. It disables instrument layers and mic-based Performance Analysis if they were enabled. E-Drums Performance Analysis can stay on while recording.
In Settings → About, Account & Support, tap Contact Support to send an email to the Drumr team.
In Settings → About, Account & Support, tap Show Quick Start to watch a Quick Start video and get curated scores to start practicing right away.
Linear mode (→) plays the score at a constant tempo. You set one tempo and it stays the same throughout all repetitions.
Increasing mode (↗) gradually increases the tempo over multiple repetitions. You set a starting tempo, ending tempo, number of reps, and tempo ramp (how many BPM to increase after each set of reps).
Tempo ramp (only available in Increasing mode) controls how many BPM the tempo increases after completing each set of reps.
Reps (repetitions) controls how many times the score loops before stopping. Available in both Linear and Increasing tempo modes.