Drumr Notate

Actually enjoy writing drum music. Get your ideas on the page faster, with less hassle. Open and play files for free. Try editing free for 7 days.

Compose your own drum kit and drumline music, fast. Write your part, hear it back, and share or print a PDF.

Try editing free for 7 days. No account required.

Write It. Hear It. Share It.

Compose

• Note values from whole notes to 32nd notes
• Tuplets — triplets, quintuplets, sextuplets, septuplets, and ninelets
• Dynamics from ppp to fff, crescendo and decrescendo hairpins, and score-wide Accent/Tap dynamics
• Accents, marcatos, tenutos, flams, diddles, ghost notes, and open hi-hat markings
• Add sticking and text to explain how the part should be played.
• Per-measure tempo marks from 30 to 300 bpm and time signatures from 2/4 to 13/8
• Beams group themselves from the meter, compound meters included, with manual override
• Rests consolidate automatically
• Duplicate measures, repeat notes, and copy and paste to build patterns fast

Four Complete Instrument Palettes

More than 100 sound and technique combinations across four instruments.

• Drum Kit — snare, bass drum, hi-hats, toms, and cymbals, plus cowbell, tambourine, clave, and gock block
• Marching Snare — rimshots, cross-sticks, buzz and press rolls, backsticks, stick shots, stick clicks, ping shots, gock blocks, cowbell, and ribbon crasher
• Marching Tenors — all six drums, with rim clicks, rimshots, buzz and press rolls, crossovers, stick shots, stick clicks, and skank
• Marching Bassline — all five drums, with rim clicks, rimshots, buzz rolls, stick clicks, and unison hits

Hear It Back

Play your score with built-in authentic drum sounds — playback follows the tempo marks you write, from 30 to 300 bpm.

Share It

Share or print a PDF of your scores. Scores live in the Files app and iCloud Drive, and every score is a standard MusicXML file you can use in your notation workflow.

Made for Speed

Tap, drag, or use full hardware keyboard shortcuts. Drag a note and Notate previews the valid placements before you drop it.

Appearance

Choose Light, Dark, or System to match your device.

Practice It in Drumr

Tap Open in Drumr to turn your score into an interactive practice tool — follow along note-for-note, slow the tempo or use speed training to build stick control, loop the hard parts, get practice feedback, and see your progress. Requires a Drumr Premium subscription with a free 7-day trial.

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