Song Beats
A Fabulous Drum Performance Support Tool for iPhone!
Song Beats is an iPhone app that supports your drum performance by visualizing which drums to hit and when to hit them while playing along with your favorite songs. The app also allows you to easily create custom accompaniments for drums, putting your drumming at the center of the band. There are more than 1000 songs available from a shop that's built right into the app. In addition, you can also use 10 built-in demo songs or any MIDI song that you've already purchased from Yamaha MusicSoft by using iTunes File Sharing. Register Song Beats with Yamaha, and your first song is free! !!! IMPORTANT INFORMATION !!! SongBeats song data purchase service will be closed by 31st March 2016. SongBeats iApp itself will continue to work with all of the other functions but song purchase. The song data that you already purchased in SongBeats can be used even after purchase service is terminated. However, you cannot re-download the songs you purchased if your song data is lost due to circumstances like un-installing the App, re-installing the App on another iOS device or initialising your iOS device or similar. To prevent data loss, you should frequently backup your data in iTunes, for instance every time you have purchased new data. The way of making backups in iTunes and recovering from iTunes is as follows. Backup: Connect your iPhone/iPad to your PC. Start iTunes on your PC. Select Device from the iTunes menu and select the connected device, then select “back up”. Recovering: Connect your iPhone/iPad to your PC. Start iTunes on your PC. Select Device from the iTunes menu and select the connected device, then select “Recover from back up”.
*In-app purchases are only available in the US, UK, Germany and Japan at this time.
Yamaha Song Beats V2.0 - Overview - iPhone App
What's New in Version 2.1
- Yamaha’s DTX562K electronic drum kit can be selected as a drum set in the Kit screen- Eight new built-in songs for practicing the basics have been added - Problems involving tempo input that occurred with iOS 7 have been fixed
Extra functies in versie 2.0
- New scrolling display (The timeline shows which drum you need to hit, with a cursor moving from right to left to indicate the timing.) - Skill test: Evaluate your drumming skills, with a three-level result for each drum. - You can connect to the Yamaha electronic drum DTX series (to use the skill test and for playback of song data from the drum kit) * Connecting to a drum kit requires i-UX1. See the Yamaha website for details of supported devices. -Optimized for the 4-inch Retina display on iPhone 5 *Please note that with the update, the demo song is replaced, which reinitializes the demo song tempo, part muting settings and so on.
Watch & learn to play the drums
Glowing rings make it easy to see which drums to hit and when to hit them, so you can learn to play along with your favorite songs. Hit the corresponding drum when the glowing ring reaches the edge of the drum.
Mix the Drum kit
- mixing drums : Mix the drum sounds you want to hear by using the mute feature, and create simplified drum beats for practice or performance.- changing the tempo: Change the tempo of any song to match your skill level. - A-B looping : Set loop points to repeat and practice difficult beats in a song.
Customize the backing band and play along
Build your ideal band for jamming by muting and mixing the instrument sounds you want to play along with.
Use iTunes File Sharing
You can load any MIDI songs you've already purchased from Yamaha MusicSoft into the app by using iTunes File Sharing.
