Click steps into a grid, press play, and jam along. Fretnook's drum machine has six voices, patterns up to 16 bars long, and a bass note that can follow the key you are playing in. When the beat is right, bounce it onto a recording track.
The drum machine follows the metronome, so set your BPM on the Recorder tab first, or tap it in.
The grid has 16 steps and six voices: Kick, Snare, Closed Hat, Open Hat, Clap and a Bass note. Click a cell to add a hit and click again to remove it.
The pattern loops while you audition it. Use Bars to stretch it beyond one bar, up to 16, so a fill can land at the end of a phrase.
Render the pattern onto any empty or armed track. From there it is an ordinary track that you can mix, trim and layer guitar over.
Kick, snare, closed hat, open hat, clap, and a pitched bass note for a simple bass line.
Start with one bar of 16 steps and lengthen the pattern for verses, fills and turnarounds.
The Bass Note menu defaults to the key the Ear Trainer last detected, and you can change it any time.
One BPM controls the click, the beat and the recorder, so everything stays in time.
Turn the pattern into real audio on a recorder track, exactly like a recorded take.
Your pattern is saved in the browser and survives a page reload. Save Song stores it with a setlist entry too.
A drum pattern is the quickest way to practise timing. Build a simple kick and snare groove, hit play, and work on riffs or scales in time. Because the tempo is tied to the metronome, slowing the whole thing down to learn a passage is one change instead of two.
Wear headphones when you play along and record. Otherwise the microphone picks up the drums coming out of your speakers along with your guitar.
Once you have one pattern you like, bounce it to a track and use Repeat to Fill in the recorder to extend it to the length of the song. Record your rhythm guitar on the next track, then add a bass line or lead. The Arranger can also lay drum sections against the rest of your arrangement.
Fretnook is free and runs in your browser. Your microphone audio and recordings stay on your device.