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Drum Groove Builder

Build the groove, then practise with it

Note by note on a real acoustic kit, or start from a ready groove. Then play along at any tempo, loop the hard bar and bring it up to speed.

Build a bar Or pick a groove and playPlays right here, sound on
Build it

One bar of the real kit

Tap the grid to add or remove a note. Hold one for everything else: an accent, a ghost note, a flam, or a nudge in the feel.

Every note kind, one hold away

Hold any note and its choices open around it. Lean toward one and let go, or tap it. With a mouse, a right-click opens it too.
Tap adds or removes. Hold a note to open its choices and tap one, or drag: up for an accent, down a ghost, left a flam, right for Feel. Its × takes the note away.100 BPM
Or start from one of the grooves
Or start from one

Pick a groove and play

A ’79 Ludwig Maple, at any tempo without the sound bending. Pick a groove with ghost notes and switch them off to hear what they do.

RockRock, straight 8ths · 4/4
120BPM
Take it apart

61 grooves in the app, from beginner to advanced: rock, funk, soul and R&B, jazz, Afrobeat, trap and full song arrangements. All of these play on a free account.

Now loop the bar that trips you up
Practise with it

Repetition, without the rewinding

Bracket the hard bar and it goes round and round, the groove never stopping. Start where it is clean, and let the Tempo Trainer bring it up: fast is easy once your slow becomes clean.

Loop it, then let it climb

Loop one bar, then drag the bracket to take in the next, until the phrase flows.

134 BPM
Drag the brackets to move it a beat at a time, or press ×, then Loop, and tap the bar to start on and the bar to end on.
From a bar to the whole song
A whole song

Out of the menus, into the groove

When the screen is busy, so are your eyes. Arrange the song bar by bar, then press Focus: the menus go, the part you are working on loops, and you lock in and play until it flows.

The Post-Hardcore groove open in Beats before Focus: the menus, the song strip, every track of the grid, and the Inner Pulse and Tempo Trainer panels belowThe Post-Hardcore groove open in Beats before Focus: the menus, the song strip, every track of the grid, and the Inner Pulse and Tempo Trainer panels below
The Post-Hardcore groove in Focus mode: the song across the top with the Verse looped, Grid and Notes beside the menu, the tempo, and the kit grid of the bar playing under the wave, the dot riding the beatThe Post-Hardcore groove in Focus mode: the song across the top with the Verse looped, Grid and Notes beside the menu, the tempo, and the kit grid of the bar playing under the wave, the dot riding the beat
Free and Pro

Build free, keep it with Pro

Make a free account to build and play: ten minutes a day of Beats, your grooves there for as long as you stay. Pro takes the clock off and keeps what you build.

  • Free accountBuild with every note kind, play any of the 12 free grooves, ten minutes a day.
  • ProUnlimited practice, all 61 grooves, your grooves saved and synced, drum charts, and links to send.

Free to start, no card. Build your first groove tonight. Or try Pro free for 7 days.

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Questions

What people ask

Can I make my own drum beat?

Yes. Tap the grid to add or remove a note, hold one for a ghost note, an accent, a flam or a nudge in feel. Build one bar or a whole song, bar by bar, with a free account.

Are these real drums?

Yes: a ’79 Ludwig Maple recorded in Lifebeat Studio, over 130 hits played one by one at three strengths, so a ghost note sounds like a ghost note.

Can I save my grooves?

With Pro, in your own library, named and on every device. On a free account you can build and play as much as you like while you are there; it clears when you leave.

Can I play along on another instrument?

Yes. Guitar, bass, keys, horns: pick a groove, set the tempo, loop the part you are working on, and play.

Is it free?

You can build a bar and play the grooves on this page now. In the app, Beats is ten minutes a day on a free account, and unlimited with Pro.

Mikas playing a silver sparkle drum kit in his studio, in black and white
Who made it

Every groove, curated by a drummer who teaches

I curated, programmed or played every beat in the core library myself, on a kit I recorded hit by hit in my own studio.

Mikas Emil Søndergaard, drummer and teacher

  • 20 yearswith a click in my ears
  • 30+private students I teach: drums, singing, production
  • 1,400+versions of the app since March 2026
Testimonials

In their own words

Jacob Jappe on stage behind a Tama kit, sticks up, in black and white

“For me, Timekeeper simply makes practice easier, more fun and more effective.”

I don't know of any other solution that brings these features together in the same way.

Jacob Jappe · drummer, Copenhagen
Also in the box
  • Every click lands exactly on time, driven by your device's own audio clock
  • Installs to your home screen as a standalone app
  • The beat on screen stays in sync with Bluetooth headphones and speakers
  • Automatic recovery after calls and interruptions
  • Playback continues with the screen locked
  • The screen stays on while playing
  • Plays through the iPhone silent switch
  • Stop playback from the lock screen, without unlocking

Your groove, on a real kit, tonight

Build it free, play along, and bring it up to speed.

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