Nothing to install
No download, no installer, no admin rights, no updates. Open a tab on a work laptop, a school machine or a Chromebook and play in seconds.
Plug in your e-drum kit. Play your songs. No install.
WebEDrums is a drum highway that runs in Chrome and Edge. Point it at a folder of Clone Hero, YARG or Rock Band charts and play them on any USB MIDI drum kit.
No account needed. Nothing is uploaded.
How it works
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Plug in the kit
Connect your e-drum module over USB. The browser asks once for MIDI access and the pads are mapped automatically; adjust anything that is off.
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Pick your songs folder
Choose the folder where you keep your Clone Hero, YARG or Rock Band songs. It stays on your disk; the browser only reads it.
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Play
Choose a song and a difficulty, then hit the notes as they reach the line. Scores and hit stats are saved in your browser.
What you get
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Your charts, four formats
Clone Hero .chart and .mid, YARG .sng and Rock Band Xbox 360 CON files open directly from your folder.
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Any USB MIDI kit
Roland, Alesis, Yamaha, Millenium and others. A guided setup maps every pad and zone, with presets for the common modules.
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The full highway
Pro drums with cymbals and toms as separate notes, Expert+ double kick, Star Power with activation fills, accents and ghosts judged from how hard you hit.
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Tight timing
Web MIDI input with a six-second calibration from your own snare hits, so notes judge where you actually hit them.
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Practice built for drummers
Loop a section, slow it to a quarter of the speed with the pitch kept, and see a heat map of the sections you miss most. Click one to practise it.
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Drum sounds from the browser
Six synthesised kits, from jazz brushes to 808s, for when the module is muted or you play on headphones.
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Lyrics on the highway
The current and the next phrase, whenever the chart has them.
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Works offline
Install it as an app and it loads without a connection. Your songs never left your computer anyway.
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No kit? Use the keyboard
Try any song with the keyboard mapping before the kit is plugged in, or when you are away from it.
Why a browser?
Your charts, not ours
The same Clone Hero, YARG and Rock Band files you already have, read from your own folder. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no store.
Built for drummers
Drums only, so the practice tools go deeper: a per-section heat map, pitch-kept slow-down, kit sounds from the browser and a calibration that uses your own hits.
Compatibility
Browsers
Chrome and Edge are fully supported. Firefox 108 and newer works after a one-time site-permission prompt, but cannot remember the songs folder between visits. Safari has no Web MIDI, so it cannot talk to a kit.
Kits
Any e-drum module with USB MIDI. Tested on the Roland TD-02KV; other modules use the same General MIDI drum notes, and you can remap pads in Settings.
Operating systems
Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS, as long as you use Chrome or Edge. No drivers to install.
Free to play, Pro when you want more
Free
Three plays a day with every feature and no account. A play only counts once you are 30 seconds in.
- 3 plays a day
- A play counts after 30 seconds, so short tries are free
- Practice mode: loops, speed control and the heat map
- Unlimited players, all four chart formats
Pro
Unlimited plays, every day, for $20 a month or $180 a year.
- Unlimited plays, every day
- Pro on up to 5 signed-in browsers
- Works 7 days offline between check-ins
Common questions
Which e-drum kits work?
Any kit whose module connects over USB as a MIDI device: that covers nearly every electronic kit sold in the last fifteen years, including Roland, Alesis, Yamaha and Millenium modules. The Roland TD-02KV is the kit we test on. Pads are detected from the standard General MIDI drum notes and you can remap any pad in Settings.
Which browsers are supported?
Chrome and Edge fully. Firefox 108 and newer works too, with two differences: it asks you to install a small site-permission add-on the first time you connect a kit, and it cannot remember the songs folder, so you pick or drop it again on each visit. Safari has no Web MIDI, so it cannot talk to a kit at all.
Is it free?
Yes. Every day you get three plays with every feature, with no account. A play only counts once you are more than 30 seconds in, so short tries are free. When the three are used, play resumes the next day, or at once with Pro.
Ready to play?
Plug in the kit, pick your songs folder, hit the notes. Free every day, no account.