Play your first song

The season runs in five parts, in order. Preview any bar here; open one and the screen becomes a practice room.

SEASON 1 · PART 01
Your first beat
Hi-hat, then snare, then kick — one limb at a time until they run together.
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GROOVE
Right hand on the hi-hat
80 bpm
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2
GROOVE
Add the snare on 2 and 4
80 bpm
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GROOVE
Add the kick — your first beat
80 bpm
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DRILL
Single strokes, 60 → 80
60 bpm
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FIX
Your stick isn't bouncing
70 bpm
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GROOVE
Four on the floor
90 bpm
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7
GROOVE
Kick on the "and of 3"
90 bpm
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CHALLENGE
60 → 120 — where do you drop?
60 bpm
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SEASON 1 · PART 02
Your first song
Five steps that add up to a song you can play front to back.
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SONG
Step 1 — the main groove
92 bpm
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SONG
Step 2 — coming in
92 bpm
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Step 3 — into the chorus
92 bpm
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Step 4 — ending it
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SONG
Step 5 — the whole song
92 bpm
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CHALLENGE
Whole song, no chart
92 bpm
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SEASON 1 · PART 03
Kick patterns
Six ways the right foot moves under the same pair of hands.
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GROOVE
Kick patterns 1 and 2
85 bpm
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Kick patterns 3 and 4
85 bpm
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GROOVE
Kick patterns 5 and 6
85 bpm
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DRILL
Kick singles, 60 → 90
60 bpm
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FIX
Knee bouncing or ankle turning?
70 bpm
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GROOVE
Kick on the "and of 4"
90 bpm
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DRILL
Single strokes to 100
100 bpm
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CHALLENGE
Six kick patterns, no stopping
95 bpm
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SEASON 1 · PART 04
Fills and crashes
Leaving the groove for a bar, and landing back on the one.
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GROOVE
The four-note fill
88 bpm
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GROOVE
Crash on 1
88 bpm
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DRILL
Bar 4 into bar 1, on loop
88 bpm
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GROOVE
One-beat fills
90 bpm
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GROOVE
Two-beat fills
90 bpm
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FIX
Your fill is dragging the tempo
90 bpm
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DRILL
Double strokes, first look
70 bpm
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CHALLENGE
Three bars groove, one bar fill × 8
100 bpm
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SEASON 1 · PART 05
The whole thing
Everything this season, in one pass, without the chart.
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CHALLENGE
Season 1 — the whole thing
100 bpm
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FULL CHARTS
Songs
Multi-bar charts that scroll as you play.
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SONG
Africa — Toto
92 bpm
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(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction — The Rolling Stones
136 bpm
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REFERENCE
Pattern library
Single bars to lift into your own grooves.
6 BARS
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GROOVE
Backbeat
80 bpm
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Syncopated kick
90 bpm
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Four-note fill + crash
88 bpm
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Ghost notes
90 bpm
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GROOVE
Open hi-hat / disco
115 bpm
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Shuffle — 12-cell triplet grid
100 bpm
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