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Everything in Groove IO

Built for drummers, and it works for whatever else you play.

Your library

Everything you play, in one place that understands what it is looking at.

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".

The Groove IO library, a grid of drum charts with cover art, artist and tempo

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.

A Groove IO setlist showing an ordered run of tracks

Practice

The part that makes you better: play in time, drill what is broken, measure it.

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.

A drum score mid-playback with the playhead partway through a bar

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.

The Groove IO loop timeline with a bar range selected for repetition

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
  1. 1Single strokes8 bars70 BPM
  2. 2Double strokes8 bars80 BPM
  3. 3Paradiddles16 bars90 BPM
  4. 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.

Practice results showing per-hit timing accuracy against the score

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.

The Groove IO groove catalogue, a grid of drum patterns with their tempo and time signature

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.

The Learn section, with lessons on reading drum notation and time signatures

Teaching

For the six days a week you are not in the room with them.

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.

A teacher’s student roster in Groove IO, with an invite button and a linked student

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.

The Groove IO videos page showing a video shared with a named student, and one shared back

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.

A shared video with a two-sided note thread between a teacher and their student

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