Every feature free, forever. No streaks, no goals, no accounts — just the grooves and the time you spend with them. Learn a groove, capture an idea, jam, and keep time.
A calm place to sit down at your drums and play.
Drum Buddha is a practice room, not a teacher, a game, or a gym. No streaks to keep. No scores to chase. No account to make. Just the grooves and the time you spend with them.
LEARN GROOVES
A library of original patterns in real drum notation — rock, funk, jazz, latin, shuffle, hip-hop, and more. Mute or solo any voice (kick only, add snare, add hats), slide the tempo, loop it, and record a take when it feels right. Build your own grooves in the grid editor.
KEEP TIME WITH PULSE
A metronome worth its own tab: subdivisions, odd meters, an accented downbeat, gap click, tempo ramp, tap tempo, and a silent visual pulse for late-night pad work. Apple Watch has a metronome of its own, with the click as a haptic tap on your wrist.
PRACTICE THE FUNDAMENTALS
The 40 rudiments with notation, sticking, and playback at your pace. A shelf of fills, coordination drills for limb independence, loops, and quiet practice routines.
JAM WITH A BAND THAT WAITS FOR YOU
Pick a style, key, and tempo — bass and keys vamp while you hold the groove. Record the take, in portrait or landscape.
CAPTURE EVERY IDEA
Tap a beat on your knees and record it before it slips away. Trim on a waveform, slow it down, and recover deleted recordings for 30 days.
MADE FOR IPHONE & IPAD
A calm, uncluttered layout that opens up on the bigger screen.
YOURS, ON YOUR DEVICE
Your grooves, takes, and ideas live on your phone — no account, no cloud sync. Optional anonymous analytics are off by default; turn them on only if you want to help improve the app. Free, with an optional tip jar — every feature unlocked from day one.
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Small things that should have stayed put — now they do.
• Your practice settings are remembered between visits: count-in, click, gap click, the tempo ramp, and the accented downbeat.
• Better on the Mac — Drum Buddha installs under its own name, and the User Guide opens in your browser with tabs, search, and bookmarks.
• A quiet note in Settings about the rest of the family: Guitar, Bass, and Ukulele Buddha.
• The tip jar recovers: after a tip goes through — or doesn't — the jar opens normally again instead of staying stuck on the last attempt.
• Smaller fixes throughout.
As always: free, every feature unlocked, no account, no ads.
Version 1.2
The developer, Lazy Lopez Productions, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
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