Drum Notation by Beat Note

I've been looking for an app like this for a very long time. Stylish and well-designed app! Thank you!

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The free version is very restricting and unusable. What bugs me out the most is the limited use of instruments and bar measures.

I appreciate how you have been constantly upgrading and making it easy to use. keep up the great work and hope to see more updates!

I have been using this app as a teaching and transcribing tool for my lessons. I found it so much easier to teach my drum students using this app. The grids help my students, especially the younger ones, the concept of time and meter. The recent update of indicators to the notations as it plays make it so much more engaging for my students. As it is, I think it is a fantastic drumming notation app that will help you become a better reader and teacher. It is not easy to create an app at such a level of high detail for drummers and I do appreciate how the developer is constantly updating and creating more features as time goes by based on the demand of the users. I highly encourage any drummer to have this app or even other instrumentalist to under how drumming notation works.

Great app and a greater teaching tool. However, I am having issues trying to get it to sync with my iPhone and my other iPad. Isn’t this a cloud based app? Hence, I should be able to sync all my data across all my Apple devices right?

In a pinch I can make a groove or fill and have it printed out, emailed and saved as a PDF by the time a student is walking out the door. There are of course some notation features that need to be added such as sticking for flams where the grace note is also included for the sticking but those features are certainly heard from the developer. I definitely recommend this app for any student, teacher or player!

I love using this app because it lets me write and transcribe music in a much easier way than I’ve ever written by hand, BUT it got ruined by the free trial its offering because now i have to pay for half of the stuff that the app haves. Im setting my five stars to three.

Beat Note packs quite a punch. I’m playing 250+ shows / year and use it every. single. day. to write, teach, shed, and create content. I find the intuitive interface stellar and user friendly. Clearly it’s been made by drummers for drummers. I’m constantly notating groove ideas on the fly, incorporating sticking variations, setting up loops to play over and shedding with focus, and I find Beat Note pushes me further by providing unique tools to put the fun and creativity in my daily sessions. It’s perfect for beginners learning to read and for pros ready to shed. The developer is attentive, listening to community feedback, and constantly updating. Bravo. Excited to see what innovative features are next for this community oriented app.

I’m a full time drum teacher and I’ve been looking for solution like this for a long time and am so grateful to have found this app. It has become a tool I use every day for both preparing material for lessons / class sessions as well as using the app on the fly to write notation and playback the audio if we have a difficult section we need to zoom in on and master at a slow tempo. Not only am I able to write beautiful notation on my iPhone and iPad but I am also able to export the music into a pdf or display the notation for students to follow for learning to read new rhythms and exercises. The design is beautiful, the app is very efficient and runs perfect on all devices. It’s also become an amazing tool for my personal drum practice sessions to capture ideas that I have on the fly, the sequencer is so easy to use and it gives you intuitive access to different articulations and the ability to write in sticks as well as separate the hands and feet as voicing on the notation! It saves me a ton of time and my students are improving thanks to us being able to use this in our rehearsals. Not only is the app amazing as it stands right now but the developer (one man team!) is the coolest, he’s a drummer with tons of experience as well and he’s super transparent with his planned features and has created a super cool community for users to submit feedback / ideas and ask any questions. Thank you for creating this app for us!