Share drum exercises with your students

Create drum exercises in GrooveDojo, organize them into folders or practice plans, and share them with your students as a link or a PDF.

They open it in their browser and play along with the click and the notation. It’s free, and neither you nor your students need an account.

Write an exercise

How it works

Create Write an exercise on the grid and see it as drum notation, or import one you already have.
Organize Put exercises in a folder, or in a practice plan with a tempo and a duration for each.
Share Send a link, a file or a PDF. The exercises are included in the link.

Your students open what you sent, choose whether to save their own copy, and practice it (what they get).

What your students get

Preview before saving. They see what you sent first, and nothing is saved until they choose to keep a copy in their own library.
Practice with any setup. On an acoustic kit or a practice pad, they play along with the click and the notation, and their practice time is tracked (drum practice).
Timing feedback with an electronic kit. With a kit connected by USB, in a browser that supports MIDI, they see whether each hit was early or late. In Safari, and on iPhone and iPad, they still play along with the click and the notation, just without timing feedback (what has been tested).
Follow a practice plan. A plan plays one step after another, each with its own tempo and duration (practice plans).

GrooveDojo’s preview of a shared plan. A note says “A shared practice plan. It isn’t in your plans yet.” The plan, Week 3 practice, is shared by Alex Rivera and has three steps: Single strokes, Paradiddle and Demo groove, each with its tempo and 5 minutes. Under When you save, it says the plan becomes the student’s own copy, its groove goes into a folder of their own, later changes won’t reach it, and it comes with no days or practice history. The buttons are Close and Save to My Plans. — What a student sees on opening a practice plan’s link, with your name if you add it under Shared by.

Their library lives in their browser, so suggest they back it up now and then.

Writing and importing

Each exercise you write in the groove editor is saved as a groove in My grooves, with its notation drawn as you write. Already have the material? Import a MusicXML score, a MIDI file or a Groove Scribe link, or read a line of printed drum notation from a photo or a PDF and check each bar against the original. Each import becomes a groove you can change. Copy to My grooves turns any built-in exercise into one too.

Folders can hold folders, so you can keep one for each student, style or week. Practice plans put exercises in order, with a rest between them, so a lesson’s homework becomes a routine your student can follow.

A groove: a link that opens it, ready to play and save to their library.
A folder: one link with every groove in it.
A practice plan: a link or a plan file, with every groove the plan uses. Add your name under Shared by if you like.
Print or PDF: print a single groove, a whole folder, or a plan with a practice log to fill in and a QR code that opens it on a phone or tablet. Each can be saved as a PDF too.

A printed folder, Week 3 grooves, 3 grooves. Demo groove at 96 BPM, then Ride & kick paradiddle and Two hands, two kicks at 100 BPM, each in 4/4 with its name, tempo and notation, and the two exercises with their sticking under the notes. — A printed folder, each groove with its own tempo and notation. Print it, or save it as a PDF to send to your students.

What you share is inside the link, after the “#”, so it isn’t uploaded anywhere. Anyone with the link can open it, so send it only to the people it’s meant for. A very long plan or folder can go as a file instead.

Good to know

Nothing comes back to you. Your students’ practice and results stay in their own browser, and there are no assignments to mark. To talk about their practice, they can bring the printed log or show you their session’s review in the lesson.
No classes or student accounts. There’s no list of students and nothing to manage.
No curriculum. The built-in exercises are a small starting set, not a course. What to teach, and in which order, is yours to decide.
A copy, not a connection. A student’s saved plan or folder is their own copy. If you change yours, send a new link.
Your material, your responsibility. The Terms let you use GrooveDojo in lessons you teach. A part transcribed from a recording, or an exercise from a published book, may need its author’s permission (your content).

For video lessons and channels

The same links work in a video’s description or a post. Anyone who opens one gets the groove with its notation, can hear it at any tempo, play along and save it.