Write It. Hear It. Share It.
Compose your own drum kit and drumline music, fast. Write your part, hear it back, and share or print a PDF.
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Write whole notes through 32nd notes, plus tuplets from triplets to ninelets. Add accents, flams, diddles, tenuto, ghost notes, open hi-hat markings, and marcato. Add sticking and text to explain how the part should be played. Shape the part with dynamics from ppp to fff and crescendo and decrescendo hairpins. Set time signatures and tempo marks by measure.
Drum Kit, Marching Snare, Marching Tenors, and Marching Bassline — more than 100 sound and technique combinations, each with a full, dedicated palette, from rimshots and buzz rolls to a complete acoustic kit.
Play your score with built-in drum sounds. Playback follows the tempo marks you write, from 30 to 300 bpm.
Tap, drag, or use keyboard shortcuts. Preview valid placements before dropping a note. Beams group to the meter, including compound meters, with manual override, and rests consolidate as you write. Repeat notes, duplicate measures, and copy and paste to build your part faster.
Share or print a PDF for the people who have to read it. Every score is also a standard MusicXML file you can keep for the rest of your notation workflow.
Choose Light, Dark, or System to match your device. Personalize Notate with preset or custom theme colors.
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Compose your next drum kit or drumline part in Notate. Hear what you've written, then share or print a PDF. Available for iPhone, iPad, and Mac with Apple silicon.
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