Drum Guru app for iPhone and iPad


4.6 ( 3216 ratings )
Music Education
Developer: Iron Horse Entertainment Inc.
Free
Current version: 3.0.2, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 16 May 2012
App size: 63.24 Mb

Do you play drums, or want to? Drum Guru is an educational app for drummers of all ability levels - beginner to pro - which delivers the highest quality educational content from some of the world’s best known drummers. You will broaden your skills by learning new grooves, fills, and other concepts, taught in easily digestible, short lessons.

Winner of "Best App of the Year" from DRUM Magazine !

Drum Guru delivers drum lessons with high-quality video and audio, coupled with music notation and unique practice features so drummers can use the app in the practice room. These tutorials are grouped into “packs” that you can download from our catalog. Currently, we offer lessons from drumming legends such as Steve Gadd, Steve Smith, Mike Portnoy, and Chad Smith, David Garibaldi, George "Spanky" McCurdy and Mike Manigini with more coming weekly.

FEATURES
• Drum lessons in all styles delivered by the expert Drum Guru team and the world’s best-known drum celebrities.
• High-quality videos demonstrating each lesson with a "half-speed" option to really see what is going on
• Lessons from Steve Gadd, Steve Smith, Chad Smith, Mike Portnoy, and others!
• Music notation/transcription of each lesson that can be viewed while watching the video.
• Interactive practice mode, which plays back the notation, and can be started/stopped, practiced with or without a click, looped, and played back at different tempos for practice.
• Lessons divided into packs of 8-10 lessons each, categorized by ability level and style.
• All original content designed specifically for this app.

Pros and cons of Drum Guru app for iPhone and iPad

Drum Guru app good for

Wow, what a great app. (Now if only I was a drummer!) They got Bass Guru too, equally excellent vids, and notation for each example too, just like for drums.
I came across the app by accident and love it! Its an affordable way to get instant drumming "lessons" From reputable drummers, on your device! Plenty to choose from too! Lets be grateful for the things we have instead of knocking down everything! Great job on this app!! SCREW THE NAYSAYERS!!!
Latest update looks great. Packs load a lot faster now. I still find this to be the most useful of all the drum lesson apps.
Incredibly well designed, this app features lesson packs from the greats in a wide range of styles and all the exercises are written out and "play-alongable" in a way where you can slow down, speed up.. You name it. I am a Mike Mangini student, and very thankful for having great practical-functional tips from the man. And there are so many greats! 5 stars is not enough!
"As a professional drummer for over 40 years, I find Drum Guru to be on the cutting edge of innovation for drummers and I can see many more uses for this application. It is useful for teachers and students alike and very informative and user friendly. I can see ones library having the ability to expand limitlessly and I especially like the ease that you can go full screen to watch the demonstrations, while also having the ability to adjust the tempos for practice purposes. I love Drum Guru and highly recommend it!" Maureen Brown
A great tool for drummers of all levels and musical interests. Easy to use and results are immediately noticeable. Great choice of experts with enjoyable video explanations.

Some bad moments

What started off as a great app hasnt worked ever since the last 3 iOS upgrades. Come on developers, whats the story morning glory?
Wont run on iPhone 7. Will not load long enough to get thought the tutorial in the beginning. Please fix. Need access to the great courses I have been learning from.
None of the videos play. Could be a very useful app if the videos worked.
What I thought I was buying, but in fairness, it is an inexpensive way of learning the drums, if you cant afford to go to an actual teacher. The lesson pack that comes with it is okay, and you get featured and catalogued lessons to choose from, and they appear to be around 4 bucks a pack. I do wish theyd make it clearer in the app descriptions about the functionality though....
Shortly after giving a 5-star rating and positive review, the app stopped working! Lost all of my purchased packs, and have not been able to re-load them. Have tried getting help from support, but have not heard back from them - sooo bummed!
Too much crashing and corrupt package messages that requires re-downloading the videos.

Usually Drum Guru iOS app used & searched for

drum metronome, drum lessons, and other. So, download free Drum Guru .ipa to run this nice iOS application on iPhone and iPad.