GOLDDRUMS

Pure gold for drummers.

A free app for iPhone and iPad. Describe the sound you want, and AI gives you a tuning you can dial in with your phone. Then practise: new grooves, the pad, or a metronome with everything you need.

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The app

Find a sound. Then get better at playing it.

Five parts, one app. Tuning first, then the practice that follows.

AI finds the tuning.

Describe the drums and the sound you are after. AI answers with lug pitches that sound right when you tune to them, lower for rock, higher for jazz, fitted to your sizes.

AI tuning screen in Gold Drums

Tune it with your iPhone.

The microphone takes you to each lug, so the sound is one you can reproduce at home or again on stage before the set.

Microphone tuner in Gold Drums

As many grooves as you want.

Tap, and another one appears, jazz or backbeat, each with variations. If you do not like it yet, take the next.

A generated groove in Gold Drums

Practise on the pad. See your timing.

Play the exercises while the phone listens. See your timing as you play, then review a score for accuracy, consistency, placement, and hit rate.

Gold Drums pad exercise with live note timing Gold Drums pad exercise results with timing scores

A metronome with the features you need.

Subdivisions, muted bars, a tempo that climbs. The click keeps up with the way you actually practise.

Metronome in Gold Drums

About

Made by a drummer.

What started as a project to find the right lug pitches is now a free app for drummers. Marco Zimmermann is a professional app developer in Switzerland, and he plays in jazz bigbands and a rock band for children.