For drummers who actually practise
Your sheet music,
in time with the track.
Scores that scroll to the beat, your own backing track underneath, warm-ups that build, and a mic that tells you whether you actually hit it.
Free forever on 10 tracks. No card.
Store
Every chart you own, beside the audio you play it against, in a library that reads its own metadata.
Practise
The score scrolls in time, the metronome counts you in, and loops drill the hard bar.
Score
Your mic grades each hit against the chart, so progress is a number, not a feeling.
Every chart you own, in one place
Drop in a PDF and Groove IO reads the artist, title, album and tempo off it, then looks the release up in the public music databases to fill in the rest. Search the lot in a keystroke. No more folder of downloads named "final_v3".
Setlists and favourites
Build a set in the order you play it and work down it without touching the keyboard. Star what you are drilling this week and it stays one click away.
The score scrolls to the beat
Press play and the chart moves with the music, playhead on the bar you are in. Play against your own drumless mix or the full track, with a metronome and a proper count-in so you come in right.
Drill the bar that keeps beating you
Drag across the bars you keep fluffing and loop them. Slow it down, get it clean, wind it back up. The loop is saved with the track, so it is still there tomorrow.
Warm up before you play
Singles, doubles, paradiddles and rudiments, ramping from a comfortable tempo to an uncomfortable one. Start every session on the pad instead of cold on the kit.
Morning warm-up
12 min- 1Single strokes8 bars70 BPM
- 2Double strokes8 bars80 BPM
- 3Paradiddles16 bars90 BPM
- 4Flam taps8 bars100 BPM
Find out whether you actually hit it
Your mic listens while you play. Every hit is graded against the score for timing, so you get a number and a marked-up chart instead of a hunch. Calibrate once and it accounts for your room.
The patterns worth knowing by heart
Second line, son clave, bossa, half-time shuffle, jazz ride. Open one, play it at any tempo, then save a copy and make it your own. The catalogue itself never changes, so what you learned last month is still there.
Learn to read the chart
Short lessons on what the marks mean and how a time signature changes the count. Every example is engraved by the app rather than scanned, so you can play any of them at the tempo you want.
For teachers and their students
The week between lessons is where the practice actually happens.
You hear a student play for half an hour a week and then guess at the other six days. Groove IO closes that gap: they film a take at home, you watch it when you have a minute, and the note you write sits on the take itself. Everything is private to the two of you.
Invite in one link
They set their own password. You never handle a login.
Both directions
You send demonstrations. They send takes. Same tool.
Private per student
A note to one student is invisible to every other.
Your students, on one roster
Send an invite link and your student sets their own password — no account admin for you, no shared logins. Unlink someone and everything you shared with them goes with it, the same minute.
Send a take, get one back
Film yourself playing and send it to your teacher. If you teach, send a demonstration to any student on your roster. It runs both ways, it is private to the two of you, and either of you can take a share back without deleting the video.
Feedback on the take itself
Every share carries its own conversation, so a note about bar 12 sits on the video of bar 12 rather than in a message thread nobody can find. What you write to one student is never visible to another.
Teaching on Groove IO
The Educator plan carries a roster of up to 25 students. Students join free — a student account never pays to receive what you send them.