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Learn to readdrum sheet music.

Connect your electronic drum kit or keyboard, read drum sheet music, and play along with built-in songs or your own. Work through 42 sightreading worlds, loop 66 grooves, or play Survival, Free play, and the Daily chart.

Play it in your browser Wishlist on Steam What you need Free demo for USB MIDI kits and keyboards

Engraved by the game itself: full-kit reading that opens on a crash and closes on a fill.

Sightreading

Read drum
sheet music.

Beatspan engraves standard drum notation on screen. The next line stays in view as you play so you can read ahead like a working drummer.

Snare reading with ghost notes in parentheses and accents above the staff, generated fresh on every run.

Ways to play

Read at sight, loop the hard part, or play the song.

Endless reading

Survival

Endless new bars under one flow bar: misses and stray hits drain it, clean reading refills it, and the tempo climbs. The next line stays on screen so you can look ahead as you play.

Songs and rankings

Real songs and versus

Ten licensed songs come with the desktop and iPad game, and you can import .sng, MIDI, and .chart files. Practice any section, play against your own best run note by note, or climb each song's world rankings.

Chart display

Page or scroll

Read a still chart like a printed page under a sweeping playhead, or let the staff scroll smoothly toward a fixed hit line, using the same standard drum notation in both.

Focused practice

Free play

Loop a single phrase with note-by-note timing feedback so you can see which hits rush or drag, starting fresh on every pass.

Grooves and daily

66 grooves and the Daily chart

Build fluency across your hands and feet in 66 grooves across 7 families on the tempo ladder, and come back for a new eight-bar Daily chart each day.

After every run

Marked-up recap

Review the chart you just played with every hit colored for timing, see whether you lean early or late on the timing plot, and jump straight into a practice loop of your weakest bars.

42 worlds, starting with five in the free demo

From one quarter note to the whole chart.

Short lessons, each ending in a chart you have never seen. Start on the snare, add the kit a voice at a time, then learn the page itself: multi-bar rests, repeat endings, D.S. al Coda, slash bars and band cues.

  1. 01The Beat
  2. 02Eighth Notes
  3. 03The Hi-hat
  4. 04The Kick
  5. 05Eighth Hi-hats
  • Worlds 06 to 42 open in the full game.

Before you buy

Built for a MIDI drum kit, ready for a keyboard.

Built for electronic drum kits and pad controllers that send USB MIDI, with full keyboard support for reading away from the kit. Try the free demo first: if Soundcheck receives your pads over MIDI, the game will.

HardwareConnect a USB MIDI drum module or MIDI interface. Map the pads your kit has in Soundcheck, and Beatspan automatically filters lessons and grooves to match.
MappingNo presets: note numbers differ on every module. Hit a pad, Beatspan learns it, and adapts every chart to the pads you have.
KeyboardStart with F for kick, J for snare, and K for hi-hat. Settings shows the full layout and lets you rebind every drum key.
DesktopWindows and macOS, on Steam.
iPadiPadOS, on the App Store.
SongsTen licensed songs come with the desktop and iPad game. Import your own too: .sng song packages with backing audio stems, standard MIDI (.mid) from your DAW or notation software, or rhythm-game .chart files.
BrowserTry the free demo on a desktop browser. Connecting a kit requires Web MIDI support and permission. Keyboard play is available without a MIDI connection.
OnlineNo game account is required. Charts and imported audio stay on your computer. World rankings, usage statistics, automatic error reports and Report a problem use an internet connection. Rankings, usage statistics and automatic reports are on by default, and each turns off in Settings. See the privacy policy.