Real percussion notation · in the browser
Nail the gig.
ChartBlazer: Drums turns a song into a one-page drum chart: sections, bars, energy, cues, and the groove itself, engraved as real notation. Hear it on a real kit, mark it up in your own hand, then run the whole setlist from a tablet on stage, wifi or not.
And you don't start from silence: clone any public chart from the community and make it your own.
The pictures are the real editor. The sample chart is fully editable and playable, no signup, nothing saves.
Edit like a drum machine.
Read real notation.
No dragging tiny noteheads on a touchscreen. Tap big steps on a grid, and ChartBlazer engraves the notation for you as you enter it. A groove runs as many bars as it needs, repeats condensed to the one-bar repeat sign, the way a drummer writes them.
Press play: every groove sounds off real sampled drums, right in the chart. Save the patterns you keep coming back to in your groove library, and drop them into the next song.
Markup · stylus first
Mark it up like paper.
Pen, highlighter, and sticky notes drawn straight onto the chart: pressure-sensitive under a stylus, finger-friendly on a stand. Circle the cue, arrow the fill, scrawl what the MD said. Your ink stays anchored to the music through edits and follows the chart to every device — your tablet, View mode, and the gig stage.
Charting today
- A scrawled page that dies in a coffee spill, or lives on one music stand.
- An engraving app: two hours placing noteheads before you've played a note.
- A folder of exports that drift out of date the moment the arrangement changes.
The ChartBlazer way
- A whole chart in minutes: sections down the page, bars, feel, and the groove. Real notation without the busywork.
- On every device you own, marked up in your own hand, backed up.
- One living chart: edit it tonight, print it clean, hear it first.
Song-form first
A row per section (Intro, Verse, Chorus) with bars, an energy level, and a lyric cue. The way working drummers actually chart.
Built for fingers & sticks
Big tap targets, inline editing, stylus markup with pressure. Made for the tablet on your snare-side music stand.
Hear the real kit
Real acoustic samples, accent & ghost dynamics, and a built-in metronome: play any groove right in the chart, then draw on it like paper.
Layout · one-page flow
One page,
on purpose.
A chart reads top to bottom, one section per line, the way the song plays. Every section gets the room it needs: a busy verse just takes another line, and nothing else on the page moves. Running long? Flip into a two-column newspaper flow and the whole song still fits one page or screen. No scrolling, no page turn mid-chorus.
Then size it to your eyes and your stand: A− / A+ scales the whole chart, every section has its own fine-tune, and the columns drag to whatever balance of cues and notation you read best. Print it, and the two-column flow comes with you, re-laid out to fill the page.
Gig Blazer · Setlists
Your whole set,
in the pocket.
Group charts into a gig: a named, ordered setlist. Pull it up on a tablet and page through song by song with a big tap or a swipe, screen kept awake all night. Print the entire set to one PDF, and it all works with no wifi.
See how it works- 1 Enter The Gates 92 · 4/4
- 2 Battle Belongs 81 · 4/4
- 3 Lion And The Lamb 90 · 4/4
- 4 House Of The Lord 86 · 4/4
- ✦ set break
- 5 Graves Into Gardens 70 · 6/8
Community · share & clone
Somebody already charted it.
Clone it and make it yours.
Every public chart is a starting point: browse the community, play a chart before rehearsal, then clone it: you get your own fully editable copy, and the original stays theirs. Your own charts work the same way: share one privately with the band by @handle, or publish it for everyone. Either way they read, play and clone it, and yours stays yours. Comments make the good ones better; you stay in control.