GrooveSmith: Drum Practice
Blackshift s.r.o. Music iPhoneiPadiPod touch
GrooveSmith: Drum Practice is a free Music app for iPhone and iPad by Blackshift s.r.o. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated October 11, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 9 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 11
- 2026 · v1.2.0
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About GrooveSmith: Drum Practice
You sit down at the kit — and play the same three beats you always play. GrooveSmith solves the hardest part of practising alone: deciding what to play. Tap once and you get a fresh practice sheet — a groove flowing into a fill — written out properly, with the audio to match. Not a random note generator: every combination is checked so it sounds like real drumming. YOU DON'T HAVE TO READ MUSIC If you read charts, this is a chart. If you don't, turn on labels and the notes tell you which drum to hit — so you're learning real notation from day one, not a simplified version you'd have to unlearn later. IT GROWS WITH YOU Ten levels, from your very first beat to material you'll have to work at. Each one adds a single new idea instead of a wall, so the next level always feels like the next step — not a cliff. BUILT FOR PLAYING ALONG, NOT WATCHING Hit play and the drums, the click and a moving cursor stay locked together. Change tempo without stopping. Count yourself in. Mute the kit and keep the click, or the other way round. FILLS, AND THE RUDIMENTS YOU KEEP MEANING TO WORK ON Short pickups or a full bar, with the sticking written in so you're never guessing which hand leads. Paradiddles, flams, rolls — properly notated. FITS THE WAY YOU ALREADY PRACTISE Play something once or twenty times. Slow it right down, stop halfway, come back tomorrow. There's no course to work through and no streak to keep — you decide what counts as progress. Rock and pop, straight, half-time or shuffle — and 6/8 and 12/8 when you want them. Works offline. No account, no ads, nothing to sign up for. Made by a drummer who got bored of his own practice routine.
What’s new
Version 1.2.0 · Updated October 11, 2026
Grooves you can keep, and a whole new feel to practise. • Keep the grooves you like. Tap the bookmark above the notes to keep a groove. Find it again in Practice → Saved grooves — as many as you like. • Shuffles, 6/8 and 12/8. Turn on Shuffle & 6/8 in Practice to mix in grooves that count in threes — from a slow 12/8 ballad up to the half-time shuffle. • Every PAS rudiment, written right. All 40, with triplets marked and counted “1 la li”, and each one in the time signature it really fills. • Optimized for iPhone Duo. Closed, the controls stand beside the notes, the way Apple's own apps do. Open like a book, the bar line moves into the fold, so no note sits on the crease. • A tempo for each feel. Shuffles and 6/8 remember their own tempo, so a slow ballad never inherits your rock speed. Also fixed: • Flams and drags on beat 1 now sound before the beat, not on top of it. • Your settings now stay put when the app updates. • In landscape, barlines no longer cut through a flam or a drag. • In Labeled mode, letters no longer run into each other. Thanks for trying it. If something annoys you, Settings → Send Feedback comes straight to me.
App privacy
The developer, Blackshift s.r.o., reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| GrooveSmith: Drum Practice | – | Free | October 11, 2026 | |
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