BEAT, FILL & EXERCISE BUILDERS
Create beats, fills, and exercises with a guided wizard designed by drummers — every step is built around real musical reasoning, so the patterns you build actually make sense on the kit. Fresh new ideas and drills in seconds. Or start from scratch in the full pattern editor, or describe what you want and let AI draft it (beta). Staff notation and grid views. Share your creations with the community.
SONGS
Songs. Upload a song — a rehearsal take, a demo, the track you're learning — and play along three ways: the band without the drums, the drums alone, or the full mix. Slow it to half speed at the same pitch, ride a click that follows the take bar by bar, and loop a bar range inside a session.
METRONOME — FREE
A fully featured metronome, free forever. Any time signature, any subdivision, polyrhythms, advanced accent patterns — no paywall. Most apps charge for this. DrumShed gives it away.
METRONOME DRILLS
A metronome that does more than click. Configure time signatures, subdivisions, accent patterns, and polyrhythms. Run structured drills with automatic tempo progression, count-ins, and voice cues — hands-free.
AI PRACTICE CO-PILOT (BETA)
Tell the AI what you want to work on and it drafts a custom practice session — drills, tempos, and warm-up structure tailored to your level. Every plan is yours to review and adjust before you play, and every AI-drafted beat opens in the full editor. It drafts, you decide what's good.
COMMUNITY
Browse and play beats and fills shared by other drummers. Share your own creations. Get inspired by what others are practicing.
SHARE & EXPORT
Record any beat or fill as a video with grid or notation view — app audio captured directly, no screen recording needed. Export notation as high-res images with sticking labels. Share a link that opens your pattern directly in DrumShed so anyone can hear it, clone it, and practice it. Built for teachers sharing exercises and creators posting to TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram.
PROGRESS TRACKING
See your practice history, streaks, and achievements. Track drill counts and practice time across weeks, months, and all time.
PATHS
Guided practice paths that take the guesswork out of what to work on next. Each day builds on the last — real drills, real tempos, matched to your level. Start with the Getting Started paths and practice with direction. New paths are added regularly.
Works with any drum kit — acoustic or electronic.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Play along without the drums. Upload a song and DrumShed separates the drums from the rest, finds the tempo and the downbeats, and gives you the band without the drums to play along to — or the drums alone to learn the part by ear. Slow it down without changing pitch. Nudge the click until it sits right. Drop a bar range into a session and loop it.
Full disclosure: I have no drums. I have a phone, a pair of sticks I bought on a whim for my toddler, and a coffee table that has seen things. I downloaded DrumShed out of curiosity and now I'm doing math about whether a kit fits in my basement, and wondering how long it might take to get good enough to show up at a Guitar Center just to blow someone’s socks off. That's the real review, honestly. The app is so well made that it made me want the hobby — and I’m a software dev. The UI is gorgeous and calm — dark, uncluttered, and the builders walk you through it like a patient teacher instead of dumping forty knobs in your face. The sounds are clean enough that I just want to leave it playing. And "Learn This" hands a total beginner an actual day-by-day plan, which is exactly the thing I didn't know I was missing. I also deeply want to build a beat so sick and advanced that it gets to the top of the “Popular” tab on the community page. It genuinely feels like you could get good at home with this, no lessons, no excuses.Five stars from a man with no drums.
Killer app for structuring practice
jtc180
DrumShed is such a cool app for drummers and also useful for musicians on any instrument who are looking to improve their timing, groove, and phrasing. As someone who’s first instrument is not the drums this app is like having a personal drum coach in my pocket. I can ask the beat maker to come up with a pattern in any style whether that’s a funky Meters New Orleans vibe or a progressive metal beat and it does a great job of showing me where to place each hit in time. I can then break down more complicated patterns into simplified chunks and work my way up. I also LOVE the internal clock and feel transitions capabilities. Those are awesome not just on drums but I also use them as a bass and guitar player! As a multi-instrumentalist who has tried nearly every metronome/groove based app out there, I have to say there is truly innovative stuff going on with DrumShed!
Very clean, very impressive
Justsomeguy47
It is very easy to use, has tons of great sounds and tools, and makes creating beats feel fun and effortless. Whether you already make music or are new to the scene, there’s plenty to work with in this app. Definitely recommend trying it out!
Amazing!
1955MH
This app is the real deal! Extremely well thought out and executed while still being amazingly user friendly. Kudos to the design team.
Songs. Upload a song — a rehearsal take, a demo, the track you're learning — and play along three ways: the band without the drums, the drums alone, or the full mix. Slow it to half speed at the same pitch, ride a click that follows the take bar by bar, and loop a bar range inside a session. One a month free, 150 on All Access. Your uploads stay private: never shared, listed, or searchable.
Also new: export any pattern as MIDI for your DAW, or MusicXML for a notation app.
Version 1.2.2
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Information
Seller
DrumShed LLC
Size
64.2 MB
Category
Music
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
