DrumAnalyzer
Upload a song and get the drum part written down in standard notation, with playback, looping, practice levels and MIDI/MusicXML export.
I am a drummer and a developer, and transcribing a drum part by ear is an evening of work. DrumAnalyzer answers a simple question: can AI build a playable drum score from an MP3? It turned out the best open model was licensed for non-commercial use only, so I trained my own: a network that separates the drums from the mix, finds every hit and lays the part out bar by bar. The web app gives you a score or a step grid, a cursor that follows the original recording, bar looping, a metronome locked to the song's own tempo, and simplification levels from a bare pulse to the part as recorded. Results export to MIDI and MusicXML. Repeat uploads are cached by file hash and answer instantly.
- DrummersLearn a song from the actual record instead of guessing by ear.
- TeachersHand students a readable, simplified part for any track.
What it does
- 01Automatic Transcription
- A neural network isolates the drums, detects every hit and writes the part in standard drum notation.
- 02Play Along
- A cursor runs through the score in time with the original song; loop any bars and slow things down.
- 03Practice Levels
- Simplify the part from a bare pulse to the full recorded groove and grow into it step by step.
- 04Own Trained Model
- Trained on real music rather than synthetic drums after synthetic datasets failed to generalize; benchmarked against the open reference.
- 05Export
- Download the result as MIDI or MusicXML for your notation software or DAW.
- 06Fast Repeats
- Results are cached by file hash: a song already processed answers in about 100 ms.
Progress
- 01 Research Evaluated open models, hit a licensing dead end, ran data experiments and trained a custom model.
- 02 Web App Upload queue, private result links, score/grid player, practice levels and export.
- 03 Release Live at drumanalyzer.com with a 30-second preview without an account and full songs after sign-in.
- 04 Model Improvements Ongoing work on accuracy for cymbals and complex grooves.