For drum teachers

Your lessons, on every student's phone

Show the groove in the lesson, send it home as a link, and give them a reason to practise it. Built by a drum teacher, for his own lessons first.

In the lesson

Put the song on the screen, loop the bar they are stuck on

Build the groove before the lesson, or with the student. Press Focus, and the bar they keep missing goes round and round while you play along.

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
A drum student practising on a pad, the metronome running on a laptop beside the kit
Teach a subdivision on one steady pulse
Teaching subdivisions

Show a subdivision, then switch it, on one pulse

Eighths, triplets, sixteenths, bar by bar, while the beat never moves. The student hears exactly what changes when the feel does, and learns to move between them without the time moving too.

Four bars, four feels, one pulse

A bar of quarters, then eighths, triplets and sixteenths, all on the same pulse. Hard to do, and seriously satisfying when it locks.

Press play, then tap a bar's feel to change it. In the app, any subdivision, with accents and rests in each bar, and the whole sequence sent home as a link.

This is a taster. In the app you can shift between any subdivision and time signature:

  • Half
  • Quarter
  • 8th
  • Triplet
  • 16th
  • Quintuplet
  • Sextuplet
  • Septuplet
  • 32nd

Give a whole bar or a single beat its own, and accent or rest any note.

4/4100 BPM

ClickTap a note to accent itHold it to rest it

Then send it home with them
Between lessons

The groove goes home with them

Two ways, and they work together: on paper for the folder, and as a link on their phone. No more grooves scribbled on the back of a note.

On paper

A proper drum chart for their folder

Any groove or whole song you have built, as real notation. Print it for the stand and the folder, or save it as a picture and send it.

Printing charts is Pro.

ScreenshotThe same song as a drum chart: the Lifebeat mark, the title Post-Hardcore, and the Intro bar written out with its accented hi-hats over kick and snareThe same song as a drum chart: the Lifebeat mark, the title Post-Hardcore, and the Intro bar written out with its accented hi-hats over kick and snare
Ghost notes and accents written out, the way you would write it yourself.
On their phone

A link that plays, with a note from you

Send a beat, a whole song or a metronome setting by link. Your student taps it and it plays, at the tempo you set, ready to loop: five minutes a day with no account, ten with a free one. Make the free account together in the last two minutes of the lesson, and they get the full ten from the first evening.

A metronome setting carries the Tempo Trainer climb you set and a note from you, right there on the page they open.

Sending links is Pro. Playing what you sent is free: five minutes a day without an account, ten with one.

You sendShare this setting: 4/4 at 90 BPM with a Tempo Trainer climb from 90 to 120, and the note: Even eighths, relaxed shoulders. See you at 120 next weekShare this setting: 4/4 at 90 BPM with a Tempo Trainer climb from 90 to 120, and the note: Even eighths, relaxed shoulders. See you at 120 next week
They open
The page the student opens on a phone: the setting, the climb from 90 to 120, the teacher's note and Open in TimekeeperThe page the student opens on a phone: the setting, the climb from 90 to 120, the teacher's note and Open in Timekeeper
Tempo Trainer

Up to tempo at home, a step at a time

Set the climb in the lesson: where the part is clean today, the tempo it is heading for, a few BPM at a time. Send it as a metronome link and the climb goes with it, so they practise the plan you made, not a tempo they guessed.

For a groove, send the beat with your two numbers, and they switch the Tempo Trainer on under it at home.

The Tempo Trainer is free all day on the metronome with a free account; under a groove it runs in Beats' ten minutes a day, unlimited on Pro.

In the appThe Tempo Trainer panel in the app: from 90 to 120, up 5 BPM every 8 bars, seven steps drawn as a staircaseThe Tempo Trainer panel in the app: from 90 to 120, up 5 BPM every 8 bars, seven steps drawn as a staircase
BPM
80110
Start80
Target110
8ths · up 5 BPM every 2 bars
Workout · coming December 2026

Homework that runs itself

Put the week's practice in a routine: the groove, the tempo, how long, the Inner Pulse step. Send it, and your student presses Run.

ScreenshotWork your Inner Pulse, a featured routine: five steps across Beats, the metronome and Shift, each with its tempo, its Inner Pulse mode and how long it runs, about 13 minutes in allWork your Inner Pulse, a featured routine: five steps across Beats, the metronome and Shift, each with its tempo, its Inner Pulse mode and how long it runs, about 13 minutes in all
And open the next lesson with the pulse test
A two-minute lesson opener

Start every lesson with the pulse test

Tap along, the click drops out, were you early, late or dead on? Three tries, the best counts. Their best stays on their own phone, so next week has a number to beat.

Press play and tap alongTap when the dot reaches the bottom of each dip
90 BPM · 1 bar of silence
  1. In the lessonThree tries on your screen, before you start.
  2. Pass it onThe score goes to the whole class as a link, its own score card in the chat.
  3. Next lessonWhoever came back closest gets to choose the groove.
Mikas playing a silver sparkle drum kit in his studio, in black and white
Who made it

I built it for my own lessons first

I teach drums, singing and music production to more than thirty private students, plus a band class every week, and it is in almost every drum lesson I teach. Whatever we run into there is fixed before the next one.

It is the tool I wanted on the other side of the kit: the groove ready, the hard bar looped, and something for the student to take home that they actually open.

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

The mother of one of my students, a 14-year-old drummer, sent me this. I hadn't asked for it.

“Your app is absolutely phenomenal. He thought it was so much fun to practise with: Shift, sextuplets and more, with both the Tempo Trainer and Inner Pulse. He finds it really motivating. He was almost (only almost) sad to go on a school trip, because it meant he couldn't practise drums.”

Mia

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Free and Pro

What's free, what's Pro, said plainly

What you get
Free
Pro
On every plan
The whole metronome and its Tempo Trainer
Included
Included
Focus mode and live notation
Included
Included
The Practice Timer
Included
Included
The Lifebeat Engine, sample-accurate
Included
Included
A taste on Free
Beats, Shift and Inner Pulse, at full depth
Limited: 10 min a day
Included: Unlimited
The preset library
Limited: part of the library
Included: All of it
Build anything in Beats and Shift
Limited: Clears when you leave
Included: Kept
Pro only
Save, name and organise what you build
Not included
Included
Synced to every device
Not included
Included
Send any beat or sequence as a link
Not included
Included
Print or save your beats as drum charts
Not included
Included
Coming with Workout in December 2026
Your practice record: every minute on your week, goals and milestones
Included, coming with Workout
Included, coming with Workout
Featured routines
Limited: 10 min a day, coming with Workout
Included: Unlimited, coming with Workout
Routines of your own
Limited: 1 routine, coming with Workout
Included: Unlimited, coming with Workout
Send a routine to anyone
Not included, coming with Workout
Included, coming with Workout

Free

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Everything in Free, without the clock, and kept.

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PRO
Send any beat as a link: to the band before rehearsal, or to a student who needs this week’s groove between lessons.
PRO
Workout Coming December 2026
Your practice room: routines from your own material, setlists at their tempos, and a record of the days you played.
Included in Pro, at no extra cost.

7 days free, cancel any time. If you stop, you keep Free, and your library stays there waiting rather than disappearing. See the full comparison.

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 students can start with no account; a free account opens the whole metronome all day, and everything else ten minutes a day

Your lessons, on every student's phone

Built in a drum lesson, for the next one.

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