Drumeo: The Drum Lessons App 9+

By far the best drum lessons app out there. I am just beginning my journey as a drummer and purchased myself a Roland VAD506 electronic drum kit. I started taking lessons locally and was shocked and how quickly in person drum lessons can stack up on your wallet at $80 per hour. I was looking for online/app alternatives and came across Drumeo. I paid the annual fee to lock in a whole year and dove into the lessons. I couldn’t believe how detailed and excellent the drum instruction was!! The multiple camera angles showing hand and foot movements, the on screen metronome, etc are also great. The best part about Drumeo is the option to redo the lesson over or rewind back to a section you may have had a hard time with (or didn’t understand). You can start out as basic as you want with setting up your drum kit and properly holding your sticks and learning rhythm and basic songs all the way to highly experienced pro level drumming lessons. The app even has the ability to “place” you within the Drumeo lessons based off your experience level. There’s something for everyone in this app and it’s a value when you consider the cost of in person lessons. GIve it a go……I’m sure you won’t be disappointed.

Thank you so much for this amazing review! We're so, so pleased that you've enjoyed our lessons so much. Thanks for being a part of our community, and please reach out to us ANY time at support@drumeo.com - we'd love to hear from you! - Jenn, Student Support

Been drumming for 40 years. Been a member for 1 year and have learned more than ever along with improving my skills. In January of 2021 they added the “Coaches” which are 11 iconic drummers who go live for 1 hour / week. You either join live or watch the video later.

The “Method” is a curriculum you follow that guides you through the learning process. Again, iconic drummers are the instructors. Who better than that! It is professionally produced with several camera angles for demonstrating.

The entire staff is friendly and knowledgeable. Tech support is very good. This app is evolving and they are constantly improving it. Look no further for an excellent app to learn or improve your drumming. The app is free but there is a yearly fee to join & is well worth it. I highly recommend this app and educational website.

Hey, Mike,
Thanks so much for leaving this awesome review! We're so happy to hear that you've been able to improve your skills with us after drumming for 40 years already. Please reach out any time to support@drumeo.com if you ever have any issues or feedback, we love to hear from you! Cheers! - Jenn, Student Support

I’m enjoying the content and teaching style but I’m constantly interrupted by the bugs on the app.

The video player buggy and prone to glitching, freezing, dragging, and crashing whenever you attempt to press the 15sec forward button or do trivial things like plug in headphones. Attempting to rewind the play head will turn the video into a laggy mess forcing a reboot of the app.

When you come back into the app and want to pick up where you left off from the Home Screen, good luck. The resume feature rarely works and usually drops you several lessons back. Occasionally I’ll open Drumeo and find it has forgotten all my progress and shows I have zero points and tries to start me at lesson 1.

Generally, navigation is miserable and unclear. It feels impossible to get a top-down view of a module’s lesson plan and I found myself trying to scroll through pages (to get back to where I was, of course), and felt like it was just shuffling and reorganizing practices instead of simply scrolling through the practices chronologically. I also accidentally downloaded some course materials trying to navigate on the video player screen, when I quickly pressing the available delete button the entire app crashed.

Just a brutal user experience, but thank god the variable speed settings work reliably on the video player.

I might actually recommend Drumeo if I weren’t constantly swearing at this app.

Hey Sven13349, I'm sorry to hear you've been experiencing some issues with the Drumeo app! We do our best to address any issues within the app with our development team. Would you be able to email us at support@drumeo.com so we can investigate these issue further for you? We'd love to help find a solution to the issues you're experiencing! Talk to you soon :-). Jenn