Hey r/edrums,
When I want to learn the drums to a specific song, my options usually feel like one of three bad choices: practice apps with canned patterns I'm already bored of, subscription services with locked-in song libraries, or firing up a DAW for what should be a one-finger task.
What I actually wanted was something dumb-simple. Find a MIDI of the song, drop it into a thing, watch the drum part scroll down as visual cues, and play along on my kit while the rest of the song (bass, keys, whatever) plays as a backing track. No subscription, no curriculum, no library lock-in. Just whatever song you can find a MIDI for.
I couldn't find one I liked, so I built it. It's called Rimshot.
Free, open source, no account. Windows + Linux for now (Mac is coming once I'm through Apple's paid signing process).
Pretty cool features like:
- Rest of the song plays as a backing track so you're in context, not silence
- On-beat hits ring green; off-beat hits ring lane color giving visual timing feedback
- Live BPM, metronome subdivisions, auto-detected drum lanes per song
I'm not sure the gap I am filling is real or if it's just my own weird preference. This sub is the right group to tell me. If you try it and it clicks, great! Tell me what songs you drop in and what's broken. If it doesn't add anything over what you already use, I'd love to hear that too.
Download (it's v0.1.2, expect rough edges):
https://github.com/pstricker/rimshot/releases/latest
Source + bug reports:
https://github.com/pstricker/rimshot
Mostly hoping to hear: does this fill a gap for any of you, or am I just solving for myself?