Drumr Notate - Drum Notation

Notation software made exclusively for drums. Write a groove, work out a fill, or build a part for the line.

Write it. Hear it. Share it.

Made for speed

Drag a note over the score to see where it fits before you drop it. You can also tap notes into place or use keyboard shortcuts. Repeat notes, duplicate measures, and copy and paste to build the part fast. Notate handles beams and rests as you write.

Hear it back

Hit play to hear your part, accents and ghost notes included. Built-in drum sounds follow your tempo marks from 30 to 300 bpm, with a metronome to keep the beat.

Everything you need to compose.

- Note values from whole notes to 32nd notes
- Tuplets — triplets, quintuplets, sextuplets, septuplets, and ninelets
- Dynamics from ppp to fff, crescendo and decrescendo hairpins, and score-wide Accent/Tap dynamics
- Accents, marcatos, tenutos, staccatos, flams, drags, ruffs, diddles, ghost notes, and open hi-hat markings
- Add sticking and text to explain how the part should be played, or show sticking with Berger notation on Marching Snare
- Per-measure tempo marks from 30 to 300 bpm and time signatures from 2/4 to 13/8
- Beams group themselves from the meter, compound meters included, with manual override
- Rests consolidate automatically

Built for the whole drumline.

Four complete instrument palettes, with more than 100 sound and technique combinations.

- Drum Kit — snare, bass drum, hi-hats, toms, and cymbals, plus cowbell, tambourine, clave, and gock block
- Marching Snare — rimshots, cross-sticks, buzz and press rolls, backsticks, stick shots, stick clicks, ping shots, gock blocks, cowbell, and ribbon crasher
- Marching Tenors — all six drums, with rim clicks, rimshots, buzz and press rolls, crossovers, stick shots, stick clicks, and skank
- Marching Bassline — all five drums, with rim clicks, rimshots, buzz rolls, stick clicks, and unison hits

Wrote it? Now practice it.

Take the part to the pad or kit. Tap Open in Drumr to follow every note, loop the hard bars, build the tempo with speed training, and get Performance Analysis on your own music. Available on iPhone, iPad, and Macs with Apple silicon. Requires Drumr Premium, with a free 7-day trial.

PDF and MusicXML

Your scores live in the Files app or iCloud Drive as standard MusicXML files. Send one to another drummer and they can open and play it free in Notate. You can also share or print a PDF.

Appearance

Choose Light, Dark, or System, with preset or custom theme colors.

Start writing

Try writing and editing free for 7 days, then subscribe to keep composing. Opening, playing, and printing scores is free. No account needed.

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