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Yes. The free tier does everything to build, hear, and print a chart: up to 25 charts, real sample playback, a metronome, markup, offline reading, and browser print to PDF. Pro adds unlimited charts, Gig Blazer setlists, and one-click PDF downloads including a whole setlist as one file. $59/year or $9/month, with a card-free 30-day trial on every new account.

Two reasons, both on purpose. First, a chart isn’t sheet music. It’s the reminders a drummer writes for themselves: sections top to bottom, how long each runs, a groove where it applies, and the cues to find your place. Nobody writes out every bar. Second, every chart is one drummer’s plan for one gig: bands cut verses, repeat a chorus, bring the bridge down to a whisper, whatever the song needs that night or whatever the musical director calls. A chart maps the song as that drummer plays it, not a transcription of what the original drummer recorded. If a community chart is close but not your arrangement, clone it and bend it to yours. That’s the point.

Some charts describe the groove in shorthand (“4 on floor”, “16 hats”, or a row of letters like K--- S---) instead of notes on a staff. That is usually a tool limitation rather than a preference: the app a chart was written in didn’t do drum notation at all, so shorthand was the only way to get the part down. It is often the faster read, too: on a dark stage “4 on floor” registers quicker than a bar of engraved sixteenths, and plenty of drummers write that way by choice. ChartBlazer engraves real drum notation, so anywhere you want a groove spelled out you tap it onto the step grid and it appears on a staff. Both live in the same chart, section by section. Keep whichever reads faster for you.

A brand-new account can make one chart to try the editor. Verifying your email (free, one click on a link we send you) unlocks all 25 free charts. It also protects account recovery, so it is worth doing right away.

Yes. Everything you create is yours and stays fully editable forever. If a trial or subscription lapses you keep every chart; you simply cannot create past the free cap until you are back under it or subscribed. No hostage data, ever.

For reading, yes. Open a chart or setlist online once and it is cached so it opens offline later — venues have bad wifi. You can install ChartBlazer to your home screen like an app. Editing while fully offline is on the roadmap.

It is built tablet-first: big tap targets, inline editing, and pressure-sensitive stylus markup. You tap grooves onto a coarse grid, never by dragging tiny noteheads on a touchscreen, and ChartBlazer engraves the notation for you.

Free accounts print through the browser (the Print menu, or File → Print). Pro adds a one-click download: we render the PDF on our side, so you get a finished file with no print dialog to set up and the same page setup every time, and a whole setlist comes down as one PDF. Both print the chart itself — sections, cues and notation, re-laid out to fill the page so the notation stays big enough to read on a stand. Pen marks and highlights stay on screen, and a Description toggle in the Print menu decides whether your working notes come along.

Share a private chart with your band by @handle or email: they can view, play, print, and clone it without it ever being public (sharing privately is a Pro feature; receiving a shared chart is free). Or publish it to the community. Either way the people you share with can clone it: they get their own editable copy, and your original stays yours.

Yes, that is what ChartBlazer is for. Your chart is your own reading of the song: its sections, bar counts, feel, and the grooves you would play. The one thing to keep short is the Cues column, because song lyrics belong to their writers and publishers: use a fragment that tells you where you are, not the verse itself. The Copyright page (linked in the footer) has the details, and explains how to ask us to remove something.

You don’t have to. Browse the community and clone any public chart into your account: it becomes your own editable copy, and that is the quickest way to start from something real. There is also a worked demo chart under “sample charts” on your chart list: read it, play it, and use it as a template for a new one.

Send your existing charts to support@infoblazer.com (PDF files only) and we’ll do our best to convert them into ChartBlazer charts for you. Every app’s PDF is a little different, so no guarantees a given chart will make it, but anything that converts lands in your account fully editable.

Use “Send feedback” in your account menu (you can attach screenshots), or email us. We read everything and reply.

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