A browser-based drum rhythm game. Notes scroll down the screen and you hit the matching drum pad in time — like Rock Band, but it runs entirely in your browser with no server, no dependencies, no install. Just open index.html.

Works with keyboard, Wii Rock Band drums, Xbox/PS Rock Band drums, Guitar Hero drums, or any USB gamepad. Includes a Remap Pads button to configure any controller.

How to Play

Open index.html in Chrome or Edge
Pick a genre and song
Adjust speed/volume sliders if desired
Click Start
Hit the pads when notes reach the line:
- F = Red (Tom)
- G = Yellow (Snare)
- H = Blue (Hi-hat)
- J = Green (Tom 2)
- Space = Kick (Bass drum)
- D = Crash (off by default)
- K = Ride (off by default)
- L = Tom 3 (off by default)
- Escape = Pause
Right-click any genre tab or song to hide it

Features

18 Genres across two modes: synth orchestra songs + drum beat patterns
119 synth pieces with full synthesized orchestra background
120 drum patterns across 8 genres
Note density toggle — switch between Full and Simple (fewer notes for beginners)
Drums or Orchestra mode — choose whether pad hits play drum sounds or the actual melody note
Speed control — slow down to 50% for practice or speed up to 150%
Volume control — adjustable master volume
Pause/Resume — press Escape or the pause button mid-song
Gamepad Remap — configure any USB drum kit with the Remap Pads button
Hide genres/songs — right-click to hide, "Show All" to restore, saved across sessions
Multiplayer — take turns, scores compared at the end
8 lanes — 5 default pads + 3 extra (Crash, Ride, Tom 3) toggled on via Active Pads
Preview — hear any song before playing
Leaderboard — scores saved locally
Settings persistence — speed, volume, gamepad mapping, hidden items all saved to localStorage
Math-protected reset — Reset All Data requires solving a math problem to prevent accidents

Song List

Nursery Rhymes (15 songs)

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (Traditional, 1760s)
Mary Had a Little Lamb (S.J. Hale, 1830)
Happy Birthday (P.S. Hill, 1893)
Hot Cross Buns (English, 1798)
London Bridge Is Falling Down (English, 1744)
Old MacDonald Had a Farm (English, 1706)
Row Row Row Your Boat (English, 1852)
Three Blind Mice (English, 1609)
Itsy Bitsy Spider (English, 1910s)
Pop Goes the Weasel (English, 1850s)
Chopsticks (Euphemia Allen, 1877)
Lavender's Blue (English Traditional, 1670s)
Shortnin' Bread (Traditional, 1900s)
Jack and Jill (English, 1765)
Humpty Dumpty (English, 1797)

Singalong (20 songs)

Drunken Sailor (Sea Shanty)
Wellerman (NZ Sea Shanty, 1860s)
Molly Malone (Irish, 1880s)
Whiskey in the Jar (Irish Traditional)
The Parting Glass (Irish/Scots Traditional)
Leave Her Johnny (Sea Shanty)
Blow the Man Down (Sea Shanty)
Randy Dandy Oh (Sea Shanty)
South Australia (Sea Shanty)
Roll the Old Chariot Along (Sea Shanty)
Haul Away Joe (Sea Shanty)
Spanish Ladies (Royal Navy, 1790s)
The Skye Boat Song (Scottish, 1884 — Outlander)
Bella Ciao (Italian Partisan Folk — Money Heist)
Amazing Grace (1779)
Auld Lang Syne (1788)
When the Saints Go Marching In (Spiritual)
Oh My Darling, Clementine (1884)
Scarborough Fair (English Medieval)
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean (Scottish, 1881)

Christmas (17 songs)

Jingle Bells (1857)
Silent Night (1818)
Deck the Halls (1862)
We Wish You a Merry Christmas (1500s)
O Christmas Tree (1824)
The First Noel (1823)
Joy to the World (1719)
Away in a Manger (1885)
12 Days of Christmas (1780)
Hark the Herald Angels Sing (1840)
O Come All Ye Faithful (J.F. Wade, 1743)
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (English, 1500s)
What Child Is This (English, 1865)
Angels We Have Heard on High (French, 1862)
O Holy Night (A. Adam, 1847)
Good King Wenceslas (Finnish, 1582)
We Three Kings (J.H. Hopkins Jr., 1857)

Folk (8 songs)

Oh! Susanna (Stephen Foster, 1848)
Greensleeves (English, 1580)
Camptown Races (Stephen Foster, 1850)
Red River Valley (American, 1870s)
Home on the Range (American, 1870s)
Yankee Doodle (American, 1770s)
Turkey in the Straw (American, 1820s)
Danny Boy (Irish, 1910s)

Spirituals (8 songs)

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (1862)
Go Down Moses (Traditional)
Wade in the Water (Traditional)
Kumbaya (Traditional)
Michael Row the Boat Ashore (1860s)
He's Got the Whole World (Traditional)
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen (Traditional)
Battle Hymn of the Republic (1861)

World (8 songs)

Hava Nagila (Jewish/Israeli, 1918)
La Cucaracha (Mexican Traditional)
Frere Jacques (French, 1780s)
Cielito Lindo (Mexican, 1882)
Waltzing Matilda (Australian, 1895)
'O Sole Mio (Italian, 1898)
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (American, 1908)
She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain (American, 1890s)

Ragtime (8 pieces)

The Entertainer (Scott Joplin, 1902)
Maple Leaf Rag (Scott Joplin, 1899)
The Easy Winners (Scott Joplin, 1901)
Elite Syncopations (Scott Joplin, 1902)
Solace (Scott Joplin, 1909)
Peacherine Rag (Scott Joplin, 1901)
The Cascades (Scott Joplin, 1904)
Pineapple Rag (Scott Joplin, 1908)

Classical (24 pieces)

Beethoven's 5th (Opening)
Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg)
Ride of the Valkyries (Wagner) — Apocalypse Now
Mars, Bringer of War (Holst)
Toccata & Fugue in D Minor (Bach)
William Tell Overture — Gallop (Rossini) — The Lone Ranger
Bolero (Ravel)
Also Sprach Zarathustra (R. Strauss) — 2001: A Space Odyssey
Barber of Seville Overture (Rossini) — Bugs Bunny
The Blue Danube (J. Strauss II) — 2001: A Space Odyssey
Night on Bald Mountain (Mussorgsky) — Fantasia
Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dukas) — Fantasia
Swan Lake Theme (Tchaikovsky)
Morning Mood (Grieg)
Flight of the Bumblebee (Rimsky-Korsakov)
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (Tchaikovsky)
1812 Overture Finale (Tchaikovsky)
Habanera from Carmen (Bizet)
Spring from Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
Fur Elise (Beethoven)
Canon in D (Pachelbel)
Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Brahms)
Ode to Joy (Beethoven)
William Tell Overture — Storm (Rossini)

Video Games (5 pieces)

Korobeiniki / Tetris Theme (Russian Folk, 1861)
Turkish March (Mozart)
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (Liszt)
Can-Can (Offenbach)
Kalinka (Russian Folk, 1860)

Chiptune Originals (6 pieces, composed by Claude.ai)

Pixel Quest (Platformer)
Starfield (Space Shooter)
Dragon's Keep (RPG Overworld)
Turbo Dash (Racing)
Dungeon Crawl (Dark Adventure)
Victory Fanfare (Boss Defeated)

Drum Patterns (120 patterns)

Rock (15): Basic Rock, Classic Rock, Punk Rock, Arena Rock, and more
Metal (15): Double Bass, Thrash, Doom Metal, Blast Beat, and more
Jazz (15): Jazz Ride, Bebop, Bossa Nova, Fusion, and more
Hip Hop (15): Boom Bap, Trap, Lo-Fi, Drill, and more
Funk (15): Classic Funk, Ghost Notes, P-Funk, Afrobeat, and more
Latin (15): Samba, Salsa, Reggaeton, Cumbia, and more
Electronic (15): Four on the Floor, Breakbeat, DnB, Dubstep, and more
Country (15): Two-Step, Bluegrass, Rockabilly, Gospel, and more

USB Drum Kit Compatibility

The Gamepad API works with any USB controller. Use the Remap Pads button to configure your kit.

Kit	Connection
Wii Rock Band drums	USB dongle (default mapping)
Xbox 360 Rock Band drums	USB wired
PS3/PS4 Rock Band drums	USB
Guitar Hero drums	USB
Roland/Alesis/Donner	USB-MIDI adapter
Any USB gamepad	Remap to configure

Data Storage

All data is saved to localStorage in your browser — nothing is lost when you close the page.

Key	What's Stored	How to Clear
`drgame5`	Leaderboard scores	Clear button on Leaderboard
`drgameSettings`	Speed + volume	Reset button in Settings
`drgameGpMap`	Gamepad button mapping	Reset All Data
`drgameHidden`	Hidden genre tabs	Right-click → Show All
`drgameHiddenSongs`	Hidden songs per genre	Show N hidden button

Reset All Data clears everything but requires solving a math problem first.

Synthesizer

All sounds are generated in real-time using the Web Audio API — no audio files needed:

Sound	Method
Kick	Sine oscillator, 180Hz to 40Hz sweep
Snare	Highpass noise burst + 180Hz tone
Hi-hat	Highpass noise burst, very short
Toms	Sine oscillator pitch sweep
Crash	Long noise burst, wide frequency
Ride	Metallic ping, bandpass filtered
Strings	Sawtooth + lowpass filter
Brass	Square + lowpass filter
Woodwind	Triangle oscillator
Bass	Sine oscillator, low frequency
Timpani	Sine frequency sweep
Choir	Multiple detuned sine oscillators
Chiptune	Square wave with pulse bass

Tech

Pure vanilla JavaScript — no libraries, no build step, no server
Single index.html file (~4850 lines)
Web Audio API for all sound synthesis
Canvas 2D for the note highway
Gamepad API for drum kit input
localStorage for all persistent data
Works on Windows, Linux, and Mac

Hosting

No server is required to play, but if you want it reachable at a URL, a Dockerfile + docker-compose.yml are included to serve index.html from nginx in a container, plus a DEPLOYMENT.md with a Caddy 2 reverse-proxy config for putting it behind an FQDN with automatic HTTPS.

License

MIT

Disclaimer

Rock Band is a trademark of Harmonix Music Systems. Guitar Hero is a trademark of Activision Publishing. Wii is a trademark of Nintendo. Xbox is a trademark of Microsoft. PlayStation is a trademark of Sony Interactive Entertainment. This project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to any of these companies. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners and are used here solely for hardware compatibility reference.