Digital Practice Toolkit
Learning to play drums can be complicated, and we drummers are constantly juggling lots of different tools: sheet music, MP3s, YouTube videos, and various apps for slowing down songs or editing notation. All this switching between programs wastes time and kills your focus. But what if you could have a single tool that combines everything a drummer needs?
Introducing the Beats Drum Studio Digital Practice Toolkit (DPT).
How It Works
The DPT is based on the Soundslice player, a hybrid audio player/notation viewer that syncs audio, video and music notation into a single, elegant interface. No more juggling, no more wasting time, just an effective, efficient and fun learning experience that lets you;
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View music notation synced with multiple recordings.
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Click on any note to instantly jump to that spot in the audio or video.
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Slow down or speed up any part of a song to hear every detail. When you’ve nailed the part, bump the tempo back up and rock out in real time.
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Loop difficult sections No more pausing and rewinding when you mess up that fill. Simply grab the section of the song and loop it over, and over, and over until you’ve got it down.
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Add or remove a metronome to help you count tricky beats, and create count-ins (even in odd-time signatures).
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Zoom and re-wrap notation to fit any screen size.
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Download PDF files of your charts to take with you to gigs or rehearsals.
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Access it from any device without having to install anything. Your phone during practice time, your laptop when you’re behind the kit, and your tablet at the gig, wherever the music takes you!
Try it out for yourself
You can get a taste for it right now by clicking the play button below for a demo track of "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson, taken from the Trinity Rock & Pop Grade 1 Drums syllabus.
It’s a great way to take the DPT for a test drive.
the Student Experience
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Everything you need is online and is easily accessible through our Patreon Page.
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There’s nothing to download or install. It works in any modern web browser on any device.
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You can view and practice your music, using the rich variety of learning approaches supported by the DPT.
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For less than 17p a day unlock all of the features of the Beats Drum Studio Digital Practice Toolkit (DPT) for all 8 songs in each grade.
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Here is a link to a series of tutorials on how to get the most out of the DPT.
Initial Grade
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"Do I Wanna Know?" - Arctic Monkeys
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"Gold Lion" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
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"Hold On" - Alabama Shakes
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"Hot Pants" - James Brown
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"Island In The Sun" - Weezer
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"Three Little Birds" - Bob Marley & The Wailers
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"We Will Rock You" - Queen
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"Yellow" - Coldplay
Listen to these tracks on Spotify
Grade 1
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"Another One Bites the Dust" - Queen
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"Billie Jean" - Michael Jackson
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"Fever" - The Black Keys
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"Float On" - Modest Mouse
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"Mustang Sally" - Wilson Pickett
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"Seven Nation Army" - The White Stripes
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"The Weight" - The Band
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"Uptown Funk" - Mark Ronson, feat. Bruno Mars
Listen to these tracks on Spotify
Grade 2
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"Fallin'" - Alicia Keys
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"Song 2" - Blur
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"Knock On Wood" - Eddie Floyd
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"Miss You" - The Rolling Stones
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"Under The Bridge" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
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"Just Kissed My Baby" - The Meters
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"She Sells Sanctuary" - The Cult
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"You Make Loving Fun" - Fleetwood Mac
Listen to these tracks on Spotify
Grade 3
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"Are You Gonna Go My Way" - Lenny Kravitz
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"Dancing In The Moonlight" - Toploader
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"Don't Wanna Fight" - Alabama Shakes
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"I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)" - Aretha Franklin
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"London Calling" - The Clash
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"Love Is The Drug" - Roxy Music
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"Sweet Child O' Mine" - Guns N' Roses
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"Sweet Emotion" - Aerosmith
Listen to these tracks on Spotify
Grade 4
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"Brown Eyed Girl" - Van Morrison
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"Can't Get Enough" - Bad Company
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"Car Wash" - Rose Royce
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"Come Together" - The Beatles
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"I Heard It Through The Grapevine"* - Marvin Gaye
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"Jump" - Van Halen
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"Le Freak" - Chic
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"Reach Out I'll Be There" - Four Tops
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"You Do Something To Me" - Paul Weller
Listen to these tracks on Spotify
Grade 5
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"Alive" - Pearl Jam
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"Here Comes the Sun" - The Beatles
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"Musicology" - Prince
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"No One Knows" - Queens of the Stone Age (Technical Focus)
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"Riff Raff" - AC/DC (Technical Focus)
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"Sir Duke" - Stevie Wonder
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"The Riverboat Song" - Ocean Colour Scene
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"You Know I'm No Good" - Amy Winehouse
Listen to these tracks on Spotify
Grade 6
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"Love Rears Its Ugly Head" - Living Colour
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"Misery Business" - Paramore
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"Ghost Town" - The Specials
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"Pressure & Time" - Rival Sons
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"Private Life" - Grace Jones
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"Smells Like Teen Spirit" - Nirvana
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"Smooth Criminal" - Alien Ant Farm
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"Wake Up" - Rage Against The Machine
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Grade 7
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"50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" - Paul Simon
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"Rope" - Foo Fighters
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"Super Bad" - James Brown
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"Toxicity" - System of a Down
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"The Trooper" - Iron Maiden
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"Two Weeks" - Grizzly Bear
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"What'd I Say" - Ray Charles
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"With A Little Help From My Friends" - Joe Cocker
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Grade 8
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience - "Fire"
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Toto - "Rosanna"
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Tool - "Schism" (Technical Focus)
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Stanley Clarke - "Silly Putty"
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Sting - "Seven Days"
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David Bowie - "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)"
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Bring Me The Horizon - "Drown"
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Rush - "The Spirit of Radio"
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Black Sabbath - "War Pigs"
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