NOTEHEAD
Coming to Steam

EARN YOUR PLACE.READ THE SET.

A sightreading game for electronic drum kits. Real engraved notation, played on your own pads over MIDI. The chart is never the same twice.

Play it in your browser What you need Free. Chrome, Edge, or Firefox, and a MIDI kit.

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


The founding constraint

NOT NOTE LANES.
ACTUAL NOTATION.

Falling blocks teach you to read falling blocks. Notehead prints the drum key every real chart already uses, so practice here is practice for the gig.

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

Two ways to play

SURVIVE IT, OR SHED IT.

Fresh-chart survival

THE GAUNTLET

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

THE WOODSHED

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

YOU NEED A KIT.

An electronic kit, or pads that send MIDI. The keyboard fallback shows the whole game, but it is a preview: reading transfers only with your hands on a 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.
KeyboardF, J, K, L are kick, snare, hi-hat, ride; more keys cover the rest, shift plays a ghost. Enough to see the game, not to learn it.
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.