Drum Buddha: Beats & Metronome
Lazy Lopez Productions Music iPhoneiPadiPod touchMacApple Watch
Drum Buddha: Beats & Metronome is a free Music app for iPhone and iPad by Lazy Lopez Productions. Rated 5.0/5 from 2 ratings. Requires iOS 17.0.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 2 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 100 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 5
- 2026 · v1.3
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About Drum Buddha: Beats & Metronome
A calm place to sit down at your drums. Every feature free, forever — no subscription, no scores. 151 grooves in real notation, all 40 rudiments, and a metronome worth its own tab. - `GROOVES` — 151 across seventeen styles, written in standard drum notation. Mute or solo any voice, slide the tempo, loop a bar, and record a take when it feels right. - `PULSE` — a metronome worth its own tab: 30 to 300, subdivisions, an accented downbeat, gap click, tempo ramp, tap tempo, a silent visual pulse for late-night pad work, and odd meters — 5/4, 6/8, 7/8, 12/8. - `RUDIMENTS` — all 40, drilled: notation, sticking, and playback at your pace. - `FILLS & COORDINATION` — 30 fills and 16 limb-independence drills, easiest first. - `BUILD YOUR OWN` — a grid editor for the groove in your head, saved alongside the rest. - `JAM` — bass and keys vamp in the key you pick; you hold the groove, and you can record it. - `RECORD` — catch the beat you just tapped on your knees. Trim it on a waveform, slow it down, and dig anything back out for 30 days. - `THREE KITS` — two acoustic kits and a synth percussion set, sampled, not sequenced. - `LOCK SCREEN` — the tempo stays on your lock screen while the click keeps playing. - `ON YOUR WRIST` — a haptic metronome and tap tempo on Apple Watch, so the count is on your arm and not in your ears. - `YOURS, ON YOUR DEVICE` — no account, no cloud sync, nothing to sign up for. Anonymous analytics stay off unless you turn them on. - `FREE MEANS FREE` — every feature, unlocked, forever. The tip jar is there if it helps you play more, and it unlocks nothing.
What’s new
Version 1.3 · Updated September 5, 2026
Write in any time signature — and a few things you asked for. • Any time signature. Write in 17/8, 33/8, anything — and say how the bar is counted. Tell it 17 goes 3+3+3+3+3+2 and the notation beams it that way, the grid shades it that way, and the click lands where you count. The metronome takes the same meters. • Read it at the kit. Turn the phone sideways on any groove and the notation fills the screen, with everything else out of the way. • Take a groove out of its box. Each groove still shows the tempo range it's traditionally played in — but that's guidance now, not a limit. • Routines no longer opens empty: three ready-made sessions are waiting. • A copy you keep: write your practice log, routines, favorite grooves and saved setups to one file, and read it back on a new phone. • A Send feedback row in Settings, with your version and device already filled in. Most of this release arrived that way. • Smaller fixes throughout, including a clearer cross-stick in the mix. As always: free, every feature unlocked, no account, no ads.
App privacy
The developer, Lazy Lopez Productions, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction, Other Usage Data
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data
Used for: Analytics
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