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Drum Gym with Mike Sturgis

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Drum Gym is an app that provides you with the tools you need to be creative and musical in your drumming. It achieves this goal in three progressive stages: First, you will cover a comprehensive overview of all the essential snare drum rudiments and their various components. Next, the rudimental vocabulary is combined into exercises that are more complex and challenging. These exercises cover a range of rudimental combinations across different subdivisions and are designed to further your technical and musical approach. Finally, we take some of the rudiments that we’ve covered and apply them to the drum kit in a variety of patterns and fills. These ideas will allow you to take the skills you’ve acquired through learning the rudiments and create a dynamic musical vocabulary. Drum Gym provides you with some innovative and interactive options on how to approach your learning. Each exercise starts with an explanation of the content, with the important points of each exercise written out for your convenience. Next, there is a demonstration of the exercise at a fast and a slow tempo that simultaneously features scrolling notation. After that, you can move into the practice section of the exercise and play along with the audio loop and click track at any tempo that feels comfortable. You can adjust your mix between loop and click, and also mute the individual voices of the kit for increased flexibility in how you hear and practice each exercise. In addition to scrolling notation, the practice section in each exercise features a bespoke graphic that clearly indicates which drum or cymbal is being struck and which hand should be doing the striking. Because of the progressive nature of its content, Drum Gym is suitable for the beginner who is learning the rudiments for the first time or the intermediate to advanced player who is looking to refine and enhance their knowledge of the rudiments and explore their application to the drum kit. The mixture of tutorial and demonstration videos along with the interactive practice section for each exercise make this the ideal app for studying drum technique and applying it creatively. - 54 exercises covering rudiments and their applications - Video for each exercise covering Mike’s explanation and a fast and slow playthrough - Practice feature to play the exercises from 20bpm - 150bpm - Animated drum kit to show you which drums to hit when! - Mixer to isolate drum or click track sounds - Follow-along musical notation - Helpful tips on how to practise - Favourite exercises to help you create a daily workout
What’s New
We've updated the app for the latest version of iOS. Thanks to everyone for your feedback and ideas - Drum Gym is still going strong eight years after it was first released!
Version 2.85
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10 Ratings
  • zwebb89, 15.12.2022
    Buy The App!!
    I’m a somewhat new drummer and was looking for an app to help with practicing rudiments…. This is the app you need. It has a great video intro to each rudiment along with a loopable follow along notation and metronome. Seriously, best purchase for my practice regime. Show more
  • Taffypro, 06.05.2021
    Absolute Gold!!:
    Thanks you. A five star app!! Great!
  • Unknown 365, 08.01.2020
    Great app for beginners
    What an amazing resource for a beginner drummer. He doesna great job of going over each rudiment, but I especially like that you get to practice with an onscreen guide and can set the tempo you want to practice at. Show more
  • dreinstein, 26.12.2019
    Great app!
    Really gray application. Hope this one continues to stay up to date with future iOS updates.
  • raziel5434, 24.08.2019
    Perfect
    Excellent drum practice app. Honestly it’s probably the best drum app available for practices. Every lesson is important as well as presented in a meaningful thoughtful way. If you’re learning drums this is essential. Even if you’re a veteran this is still useful. Show more
  • ****not an upgrade, 12.12.2017
    Very helpful!
    I love the app. The best part for me is that you can put the rudiments on a loop and practice them over and over. Mike Sturgis is great on this as well. A couple small fixes are needed: For me I’m not able to save favorites, once I close the app and come back they’re gone. Second the flamacue is missing the intro, which is a bummer because that’s a particularly tricky rudiment for me. Thanks! Show more
  • reno35, 09.08.2016
    Really enjoy this app
    I use this on an iPad and really enjoy using it. Mr. Sturgis explains and demonstrates the rudiments on a pad, and then at fast and slow speed on a snare. The notation is below so you can see what he's playing. Then the practice screen lets you set your own tempo and practice along. Having played for 48 years, and never been really good at the rudiments, this is helping me catch up on what I should have done many years ago. Great stuff Show more
  • Heat77fd, 09.01.2014
    Amazingly good
    This is absolutely the best app I could find on rudiments. Each rudiment has a how to video in slow and regular speeds. To top it off it includes a metronome for practice and more videos on how to apply the rudiments on the set. I'm grateful this app was created! 100% 5 Stars!!!! Show more
  • Dr Rhythm, 22.12.2013
    Incredibly Useful Tool!
    This app is a wonderful combination of technical exercises and practical application. The synthesis of live video and the sequenced practice environment creates an amazingly useful tool. As the director of drumset studies at a major university for many years, I highly endorse this product. Show more

Information

  • Category
  • Age Rating
    4+
  • Price
    2.99 USD
  • Size
    671.77 MB
  • Provider
    Leafcutter Studios Ltd
Languages
English
Copyright
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