New in 2.1: practice with music. Pick a mood and a backing track locks to your BPM tempo automatically. Practicing rudiments has never been this much fun!
Your exercises, your lessons, your rudiments: one list, ready to go. Drum Journal remembers where you left off, keeps the tempo, and gets out of your way. Press start, practice.
YOUR ROUTINE, READY TO GO
Open the app. The routine you built is queued, timed, and ready to run. Warm-up, rudiments, the YouTube lesson you're working on, laid out the way you want them. No deciding what to play tonight.
REAL FEEDBACK ON YOUR TIMING
The built-in sticking coach uses your device's microphone to hear you play on a practice pad. Real feedback on your timing, dynamics, and consistency, built into your routine, not a separate tool.
PLAY TO A GROOVE, NOT JUST A CLICK
Pick a mood and a backing track plays behind the metronome, automatically matched to your tempo. Rudiment practice stops feeling clinical and starts sounding like a room.
LEARN ANY SONG AT YOUR OWN SPEED
Drop any YouTube drum lesson into your routine. Slow it down, loop the hard bar, mark the section that's killing you. Drum Journal sits on your music stand and stays out of your way.
SEE HOW YOU'RE GETTING BETTER
Every session logs automatically. Streaks, time on each rudiment, whether your timing is tightening week over week. Show up daily and watch the data confirm what your hands already feel.
EXERCISES FROM OTHER DRUMMERS
Browse exercises shared by other drummers. Pick what fits your level, drop it into your routine.
FREE TO PRACTICE. PRO TO SEE IF IT'S WORKING.
Everything you need to build and run your routine is free: exercises, the sticking coach, YouTube practice, streaks, session logs, and background music in the Drift mood. Drum Journal Pro unlocks advanced analytics — see whether your timing is actually tightening, whether one hand plays inconsistent flams, whether your routine is moving the needle. Pro also unlocks the full background-music mood pack, per-exercise history, community sharing, and data export.
The practice is simple. Showing up is hard. Drum Journal makes showing up the easy part.
SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS
Drum Journal Pro is available as a monthly, annual, or lifetime subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel subscriptions in your Apple ID account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial, if offered, is forfeited upon purchasing a subscription.
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Great tool for keeping track of your drumming journey.
RonSissons
Love this app. I like that it has instant feedback on timing, you can create your own patterns or import them from the shared user library(I just grabbed inverted paradiddles from another user submission). I have some songs to learn , so I gave it the YT URL and appreciate that I can slow them down. I know you can do that on YT, but you can also loop sections too. I know YT can’t do that. All this while keeping a log of your practice sessions.
Developer Response
Thanks for that review! The community is already starting to share some interesting sticking exercises. There should be more to come soon!
Part of my daily routine!
TristanD473
Love this app, even using for just the past week has netted me noticeable gains in my rhythm.I love that you can track your accuracy over-time, it really helps with motivation and even encouragement to practice more!This app has already become a powerful tool to me as a drummer, and I’m sure that as more people upload community exercises, it’ll grow still more in value.Try it! I’m not paid or have any type of relationship to the creator btw.
Developer Response
Thank you! That makes me very happy that you can already see tangible differences! There will be many more practice features in the app, I'm glad you're here for it!
Great practice app
zdfghjkloiu
Really cool app. I love that you can see if you’re on, ahead or behind the beat in real time.
Developer Response
Thanks for the review!
Great Practice Tool!
TheDillinger88
The main thing I love about this app is it shows you if your hits on the right and left hand are landing accurately. It’ll tell you if each hand is either late, early or within the sweet spot which has a little give if you’re either late or early. Then it’ll give you an accuracy rating between 1-100%.It works perfectly for pad practice and seems to work well with the practice on acoustic drums although I’m not super fast so I can’t speak to how well it’ll pick up drummers who really push the bpms. It catalogues your practice sessions automatically. Feels more like a game to me to see how accurate I can be and takes the monotony out of playing. Another cool feature is it lets you import a YouTube link of music you want to learn. You can slow songs down and play along slowly working them up to speed.
Developer Response
Thanks so much for this review! "Takes the monotony out of playing" is exactly what I was hoping this app would do!
NEW
- Switch between practice days and minutes played in weekly history
FIXED
- Widget now stays accurate when you don't open the app for a day
Version 2.1.3
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