Drum notation for the track you actually want to play is either nowhere to be found or transcribed for someone with better hands than yours. DrumScribe writes it out at a level you can play today, then mutes the record's drummer so you can take the seat.
Kick and snare only, one pattern per section. The shape of the song, playable the first time you look at it.
The hi-hat or ride comes in on eighths and the easy fills appear. This is where it starts to sound like the record rather than an outline of it.
The real fills, written out. Ghost notes are still left off, because a ghost note you cannot hear on the recording is a guess printed as a fact.
Everything the transcriber heard, nothing tidied. It is labelled a draft and carries its own confidence number, so you know what you are looking at before you trust a bar of it.
Marked draftEvery conversion separates the recording, so the mix without its drummer comes back at the same time and costs nothing extra. Pull the drum fader down and the seat is yours. Pull it up when you want to hear how the part was actually played.
Turn the phone sideways and the chart runs against the original recording with the cursor following the audio itself, not a timer counting alongside it. Slow it down, loop the four bars you keep dropping, and the chart stays in step.
The same song written four ways, from kick and snare to the full draft. One slider moves between them and the reduction happens on your phone in a frame, so changing your mind costs nothing.
Group the songs you are actually playing on Saturday into a set, in the order you play them. Built for the night before the gig rather than for a practice diary.
A wrong hit is a tap to move, remove or add. Corrections live with the chart, so the fix you made in the kitchen is still there at rehearsal.
Charts you have made stay readable and playable whether or not a subscription is running. That is not a promise in a footer: nothing in the app's chart storage asks about your subscription before opening a file.
An audio file you own such as an MP3, WAV or M4A, a recording you made yourself, or a link to audio you have the right to use. The app does not host, index, search or recommend any catalogue of music; it works on the material you bring to it.
Backbone is kick and snare with one pattern per section. Groove adds the hi-hat or ride on eighths and the easy fills. Detailed writes out the real fills. Full is everything the transcriber heard, labelled a draft with a confidence number. They are the same song at four sizes and one slider moves between them.
Backbone or Groove, more often than people expect. A simple chart that is right is more use at a rehearsal than a full chart that is wrong in three bars. Level 4 is there for when you want to see everything and are willing to fix it.
Good enough to play from, not good enough to publish. Kick and snare are reliable. Hi-hats go missing on dense mixes, and the time signature is occasionally wrong, so check it on a new chart. The full level is explicitly a draft and says so on screen.
Separating the recording produces the drum part on its own and the same song without it. The fader moves between the two, so you can practise against the record with its drummer removed, or bring the original part back to hear what it is meant to sound like. It comes with every conversion at no extra cost.
No. Charts read and play back on their own, and the practice shelf works with nothing but the phone. If you have an electronic kit you can connect it over USB or Bluetooth MIDI and see your hits on the chart while you play.
No. There is no sign-in screen, no name and no email address to give. Nothing you send to the conversion service identifies you.
Conversions are bought as credits: 3 for $4.99 or 10 for $9.99. DrumScribe Pro is $6.99 a month or $49.99 a year with a 7-day free trial. The practice shelf needs no credits at all, and charts you have already made stay yours whether or not a subscription is running.
Not unless you hold the rights to the underlying music. A transcription is a derivative of the composition, so a machine-made chart of a song someone else wrote is for your own private practice.
No, and it is not planned for the first version. Grading is the single most complained about feature of the app that does it, and a wrong verdict on a chart that may itself be wrong is two mistakes rather than one.
Not yet. It is being prepared for the App Store. Leave your email and we will tell you the day it is out.
DrumScribe produces machine transcriptions for private study and practice. You are responsible for holding the rights to any audio you bring into the app, and a transcription of music you do not own is not yours to share, perform or sell. The app does not host, index, search or recommend any catalogue of recordings.