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Play the drums from the comfort of your keyboard!

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Game Screenshot

Game Description

This is a free musical game which helps students learn rhythm by playing along with vintage Japanese songs on a virtual taiko drum.

Game Technology

Almost every game in our collection was created using a game building tool named Construct. These games are rendered using JavaScript and a mobile-friendly HTML design, so they work on desktop computers, laptops like the Google Chromebook, tablets like the iPad or Amazon Kindle Fire, and mobile devices like the iPhone. You can play this game on computers powered by the Microsoft Windows operating system, the Apple OS X Mac operating system, and mobile phones like the iPhone powered by iOS or Google Android powered Samsung. Try the game in it's own window by clicking here.

How to Play

Select which song you want to play along with. As the notes near the timing marker either click on the screen or use the V B N and M keys on your keyboard to hit the left edge, left side, right side, and right edge of a virtual tako drum. When a long bar appears you can do a drum roll to score exra points.

Playable songs inclue Cherry Blossoms (Sakura), Mount Fuji (Fujji No Yama), Blacksmith of the Village (Murano Hajiya), Kitten of My Home (Uthi No Koneko), Kite Song (Tako No Uta), and Blue Eye Doll (Aoime No Nintyou). You can click either B or N to scroll through songs, or press both buttons to start the game. A tutorial button also exists at the lower right side of the homepage of the game.

You may play this game embedded in the above iframe or click here to view it in a separate browser window by itself.

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Play Drum Beats Rhythm Game Online: Free Online Japanese Taiko Drums Game for Kids

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Play Drum Beats online for free. Drum Beats is an HTML drumming game where players hit a simulated drum following a chosen piece of music. Symbols move horizontally along a timeline showing what to hit and when. Hitting the symbols with successful timing improves the player's score.

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Compose a song!

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BeepBox is an online tool for sketching and sharing instrumental melodies.

All song data is contained in the URL at the top of your browser. When you make changes to the song, the URL is updated to reflect your changes. When you are satisfied with your song, just copy and paste the URL to save and share your song!

BeepBox is a passion project, and will always be free to use. If you find it valuable and have the means, any gratuity via would be appreciated!

Instructions

You can add or remove notes by clicking on the gray rows at the top. BeepBox automatically plays the notes out loud for you. Try it!

Notes go into patterns, and you can edit one pattern at a time. Those numbered boxes at the bottom of the editor are the different patterns you can edit. Click the other boxes to move to a different part of the song, or click the arrows on the currently selected box to swap which pattern is played during that part of the song.

BeepBox can play several rows of patterns simultaneously, and each row has its own set of patterns. Most rows can play melodies or harmonies, but the bottom row is for drums.

The purple loop underneath the numbered boxes controls which part of the song is currently repeating. Move the loop to listen to a different part of the song, or drag the ends to expand the loop to include the whole song.

When BeepBox has focus (click on its interface above), you can use these keyboard shortcuts:

Spacebar: play or pause the song

Z: undo

Y or Shift Z: redo

C: copy pattern from selection

V: paste pattern into selection

1-8: assign a pattern number to selection

Arrows: move selection

[ ]: move playhead backward or forward

Shift & Drag: select part of a pattern (long press on touch screen)

Check BeepBox's edit menu for more!

In the note pattern editor, you can click and drag horizontally on a note to adjust its duration. You can also click above or below an existing note to add more notes to be played simultaneously, which is called a chord.

ADVANCED: Drag vertically from an existing note to bend its pitch, or drag vertically from above or below the note to adjust its volume. Drag on the numbered pattern boxes to select multiple patterns to copy and paste parts of your song.

BeepBox has many more features. Try playing with the buttons and menus on the right side to find out what it can do! You can also click on the label next to each option for a description of what it does.

Check out some of these songs that other people have posted on Twitter! If you find something you like, you should let the creator know! And if you see any beginners asking for advice, maybe you can help them!

About

BeepBox is developed by John Nesky, also known as @shaktool.

BeepBox does not claim ownership over songs created with it, so original songs belong to their authors.

Neither John Nesky nor BeepBox assume responsibility for any copyrighted material played on BeepBox. No songs are ever received, recorded, or distributed by BeepBox's servers. All song data is contained in the URL after the hash (#) mark, and your song data will not leave your device unless you copy and share the URL.

BeepBox does not collect, track, or share any user data.

You can download an offline version of BeepBox to use when you don't have access to the internet. The features are otherwise the same.

You can download and use the source code under the MIT license. In particular, you can use the synth code as demonstrated here to play BeepBox songs in your own JavaScript projects!

Those who yearn for simpler times can find the old version of BeepBox here.

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BeepBox is an online tool for sketching and sharing instrumental melodies. All song data is contained in the URL at the top of your browser. When you make changes to the song, the URL is updated to reflect your changes. When you are satisfied with your song, just copy and paste the URL to save and share your song!

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Use your mouse or the keys of your computer keyboard to make the drums sound (the keys are listed on the left of the drums).

Press the play buttons next to the songs in the top left corner to start the music.

Try playing the drums in time to the music or copying the drumming in the song- listen carefully to do either.

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