CHARTBLAZER:DRUMS chart · mark up · play

Everything in the box

From a blank page to a gig-ready set.

ChartBlazer is a fast chart builder, a real notation engraver, a sample-playing practice tool, and a stage-ready setlist, all in one web app on your tablet.

Charting

Song-form, not bar-by-bar

  • A row per section Intro, Verse, Chorus, each with bar count, energy level, and a lyric cue.
  • Any meter 4/4, 6/8, 5/8, 7/8: free-meter grids, not just common time.
  • Multi-bar grooves Grooves span bars, with condensed one-bar-repeat signs (𝄎).
  • Duplicate & reorder Build a section, copy it, move the form into shape.

Notation

Engraving-quality, web-native

  • Real percussion notation Proper staves, beams, and tuplets. Rendered live, not images.
  • 12 kit voices Kick, snare, toms, hats (open/closed), ride + bell, crash, cowbell, cross-stick.
  • Accent & ghost Per-note dynamics: accent marks and parenthesized ghost notes.
  • Colored cues Highlight text in color and outline whole sections for a glance-read.

Editing

Made for fingers & sticks

  • Tap a grid, not noteheads Big step targets on a touchscreen. The notation engraves live as you tap.
  • Copy / paste bars Reuse a bar across the groove, across grooves, across sections.
  • Undo / redo Deep history with keyboard shortcuts. A burst of edits undoes as one step.
  • Stylus markup Pen, highlighter, and notes over the chart, pressure-sensitive.

Sound

Hear it on a real kit

  • Real acoustic samples Recorded drums (CC0) for every voice, not synth approximations.
  • Velocity playback Accents hit harder, ghosts softer: the chart plays as written.
  • Play any groove A ▶ on every groove: loop it at the chart tempo while you read.
  • Built-in metronome A hideable click + visual beat at the chart’s tempo.
  • Reference track Pin the original recording (YouTube or Spotify) to a chart and play it right there.

Reading

The whole song on one page

  • Two-column newspaper flow Flip a chart into two columns that read down, then across, so an entire song fits one page or screen.
  • Size every element A− / A+ scales the whole chart at once; each section has its own fine-tune on top.
  • Your columns, your widths Drag column edges to balance cues against notation; rows stay tight so more of the song fits.
  • Page width Normal, Wide or Full — let the chart use the whole screen on a tablet in landscape. Remembered per device.
  • Prints as laid out The two-column flow carries straight into print and PDF; the page is re-laid out to fill the paper, so notation stays big.

Gig Blazer

Your whole set, on stagePro

  • Setlists Group charts into a named, ordered gig. A song can live in many gigs.
  • Stage view Page song-to-song with a tap, swipe, or arrow keys, and the screen stays awake for the whole set.
  • Reorder & cues Nudge songs into order with a tap; add per-song transition cues (“count-in 4”).
  • One PDF for the set Print the entire setlist to a single document.

Anywhere

Tablet-first & offline

  • Install it Add to the home screen: launches fullscreen, no browser chrome.
  • Works offline Charts and setlists you’ve opened are there when the venue wifi isn’t.
  • PDF export Clean browser print for everyone; one-click PDF download on Pro.
  • Nothing to install first It’s the web — open a link and go.

Together

Share & community

  • Private or public Keep a chart to yourself, share it privately with the band, or publish it to everyone.
  • Share with your bandPro Send a chart to a bandmate by @handle: they read, play and clone it. Creating a private share is Pro; receiving one is free.
  • Clone & make it yours Start from anyone’s public chart: it becomes your own copy.
  • Comments Feedback on public charts, with moderation built in.
  • Browse Search and sort the community’s charts by popularity.