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- What are the requirements for Drumspeed App?

You will need an Electronic Drum Kit with Midi Output capability and an Iphone to Midi Converter such as Midi Mobilizer from Line6 ( http://line6.com/midimobilizer/mmii/ ), iRig Midi from IK Multimedia (http://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/irigmidi/). Drumspeed will check for the Midi Messages coming from your Iphone and will do its magic.

 

- Which brands are supported?

Technically all Electronic Drum Kits with Midi Output capability are supported. For obvious reasons I cannot test all electronic kits in the world, but drop me a line if your kit somehow does not work. 

 

- Which part of the drum kit will I hit?

Naturally everyone will check the snare drum first, but in fact you can use any part of the kit. Your toms, bass drums, even cymbals. 

As a geeky note, the app does not care about the thing you hit as long as it outputs a midi signal. In that sense, you can connect to a Midi keyboard and check the speed of your fingers!

 

- Can I set the count down timer myself?

Certainly. Just check the settings screen and adjust the Count Down Timer to your liking. At default it is set to 60 seconds, but you can set it to 300 seconds if you want to check your endurance or to 15 seconds if you want to check for your burst max speed for short times.

- What about this consistency thing?

Every good drum instructor will teach you to keep your tempo at constant speed and maintain evenness if you want good hands. Drumspeed checks for the variations in speed during your performance and gives you a score based on how much you have fluctuated over the period.

For example if you start with 300 bpm and maintain that speed over the whole duration, your score will be consistency score high. If you start with 400 bpm, but end up with 200 bpm because you are tired, your consistency score will be low.

 

- What about you?

I play drums just for fun. We have a band with my friends where we rehearse about once a week. I thought drummer community might enjoy a Drumspeed App, since so many of us leaving in apartments are stuck to electronic drum kits. Such an app will make use of its capabilities and using this app might push ourselves to get better. Enjoy!

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