Coming to Steam

Read the chart.Survive the set.

A sightreading game for electronic drum kits. Real engraved notation, played on your own pads over MIDI. Fresh charts, focused practice, and timing feedback for every hit.

Play it in your browser Wishlist on Steam What you need Free demo. USB MIDI kit or keyboard.

Engraved by the game itself. Full kit, world 04, with a fill and a crash resolution.


The founding constraint

READ REAL
DRUM NOTATION.

Notehead prints real drum notation. Learn its vocabulary, read ahead, and put the chart under your hands.

Snare reading, world 04. Ghost notes in parentheses, accents above. Every pattern a generated original.

Two ways to play

SURVIVE IT, OR LOOP IT.

Fresh-chart survival

SURVIVAL

Endless new bars, one HP bar. Misses and stray hits drain it, clean reading heals it, and the tempo climbs. You always see the next line, because reading ahead is the skill.

Focused practice

FREE PLAY

One phrase on a loop, timed note by note, so you see which one you rush and by how much. Every pass starts clean.

Chart display

PAGE OR SCROLL

Read a still chart with the playhead sweeping across, like paper. Or let the engraved strip stream past a fixed playhead. Same notation either way.

It is listening

IT KNOWS WHAT YOU MISS

Every note you play is filed against the one-beat figure it belongs to. Notehead learns which patterns and which limbs you miss, then writes more of them.

Six worlds, both series

FROM PULSE TO SYNCOPATION.

Short lessons, each ending in a chart you have never seen. Full-kit groove and snare studies; straight and triplet, simple and compound, swing, dynamics, ghost notes.

01 Pulse
02 Eighths
03 Offbeats
04 Sixteenths
05 Sync City
06 Deep End
Before you buy

BUILT FOR A KIT. PLAYS ON A KEYBOARD.

Built for USB MIDI drum kits: an electronic kit, or pads that send MIDI. Full keyboard support for reading practice away from the kit. Try the demo first. If it hears your pads, the game will.

HardwareKick, snare, hi-hat, and ride play everything. Map toms, crash, open hat, or cross-stick and the charts use them.
MappingNo presets: note numbers differ on every module. Hit a pad, Notehead learns it, and writes charts for the kit you own.
KeyboardEvery mode and every lesson plays on the keyboard. Space is the kick, J, K, L and semicolon are hi-hat, snare, cross stick and ride, the left hand's home row covers the toms and crash, shift plays a ghost, and every key is rebindable.
DesktopWindows, on Steam.
BrowserChrome, Edge, or Firefox carry Web MIDI. Safari never has, and no iOS browser can. The free demo installs nothing and is the same build Steam ships, so it doubles as your compatibility check.
OnlineNever. No servers, no accounts, nobody to wait for. Every chart is generated on your machine from a seed.