Announcing: New mini games and challenges on Aerodrums 2!

We’re brimming with excitement to bring you the first wave of Aerodrums 2 mini games and challenges!

We know Aerodrummers have been waiting for this feature for a while, and we’re delighted to now roll out four mini-games for you to enjoy and test your skills: World’s Fastest Airdrummer, Sync or Swim, Tempo Tower and Speed Reader.

These games provide a mixture of accuracy, timing and speed-based challenges. We’re also announcing our online global leaderboard, laying down the gauntlet for Aerodrummers to compete alongside each other. Check out the leaderboard here, and see if you can knock Richard, Yann, Liam and Maria down the pecking order!

Our mini games represent the first and only practical, interactive system for a drummer to train coordination, ambidexterity and limb independence. We’ve developed some world-first technology here – and you can read more about how and why in our press release!

Here’s what you can expect from our mini games and challenges:

Speed Reader

Think fast – this is a sight reading challenge where speed is key.

You’ll need to play a randomly generated pattern as fast as possible. You can try this one with just sticks, or test yourself with a version including foot markers.

Either way, with a bit of practice you may find you don’t need to look at the right/left labels at all – and work simply via the colours. 

Let us know if that’s a useful shortcut 😉

World’s Fastest Airdrummer 

Are you the world’s fastest airdrummer? Stake your claim!

Follow the sticking pattern over 60 seconds and we will measure the number of correct hits you perform. How many hits can you accurately play in 60 seconds?

Test yourself with singles, doubles and feet singles – and let’s find out how your speed compares to Aerodrummers across the world!

Tempo Tower

Take on our timing challenge with TEMPO TOWER!

The rules are simple: time your hits to a metronome, placing each scrolling block as it aligns perfectly with the block below.

How tall can you build the tower?

Sync or Swim

Rid yourself of distractions and get ready to SYNC OR SWIM. This is a coordination challenge where you will need to hit the specified subset of hands and feet in unison. Oh, plus you only have 60 seconds to get through as many patterns as you can.

We think this might be a low-scoring game… prove us wrong?!

Here are some words from Richard, Aerodrums co-creator:

“This is a call-out to our Aerodrumming community – let’s see what you’ve got! Our new mini-games and challenges are an open invite for Aerodrummers across the world to show us their skills, speed and accuracy on Aerodrums 2.

These timing and skills challenges take Aerodrumming to a new level. We’re delighted to launch this new Aerodrumming experience for our creative drumming community, and we can’t wait to see who climbs up the leaderboards!”

Aerodrummers can set a leaderboard name and country from the Configuration panel – our advice is to do this before starting to play the new games, to avoid having the default nickname (“Anonymous”).

Access our mini games and challenges for free!

The Aerodrums mini-games series is free to existing Aerodrums 2 customers, available as a software update via the Aerodrums 2 app (iOS, Android, Mac, PC, Chromebook, Meta Quest). 

A special mention to our Aerodrums 2 Kickstarter backers who may remember our sneak peek of some of these games a couple of years ago 👋

Further mini-games and challenges are scheduled for release throughout 2027, including multi-player functionality.

Got any questions? Email support@aerodrums.com or DM us on social media. See you on the leaderboards!