PRESS RELEASE: Air drumming innovators Aerodrums launch world-first training for drummers

NEW MINI-GAMES FEATURE PROVIDES NEW WAY TO TRAIN DRUMMERS’ COORDINATION
(…AND AIMS TO FIND THE WORLD’S FASTEST AIR DRUMMER!)

Market-leading air drumming company Aerodrums today launches a world-first for drummers: a  drumming system harnessing the recognition of left and right strokes in real time, to deliver interactive mini-games and challenges.

This new series of mini-games and challenges from Aerodrums is designed to help develop coordination, ambidexterity and limb independence, and offers an exciting new way for drummers to practice, improve their skills and compete with Aerodrummers around the world.

The hotly-anticipated new feature uses Aerodrums’ patented motion tracking technology, powered by a high-speed, infrared camera which captures the drummer’s motions and expression in incredible detail.

The first four games, available on the Aerodrums 2 instrument, are World’s Fastest Airdrummer, Sync or Swim, Tempo Tower and Speed Reader, offering a mixture of speed, accuracy, timing and coordination-based challenges.

The new challenges are designed to put the Aerodrumming community through its paces, and an online global leaderboard lays down the gauntlet for Aerodrummers to compete alongside each other:

Speed Reader challenges players’ sight-reading skills, generating random rhythmic patterns that they must perform as quickly as possible.

Sync or Swim tests coordination, requiring players to strike specified combinations of left and right hands and feet strokes simultaneously.

World’s Fastest Airdrummer challenges players to record the highest number of strokes in 60 seconds, with separate challenges for single strokes, double strokes and single-foot strokes.

Tempo Tower tests timing and accuracy against a metronome, challenging players to position scrolling blocks perfectly on top of one another to build the tallest tower possible.

Founded in 2011 by drummer and videogame developer Richard Lee and computer science researcher Yann Morvan, the UK-based company has sold more than 27,000 Aerodrums units worldwide. Aerodrums has been championed by musicians for removing age-old barriers to drumming such as space, noise and portability; empowering drummers who would not ordinarily be able to play where, or when, they like.

Now, as well as providing a dynamic and expressive tool to practice, learn, record and perform via air drumming, Aerodrums 2 uses brand new technology to offer this initial series of four mini-games and challenges for drummers to harness their skills.

Richard, who developed the mini-games software update, said: 

“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.

We’ve always wanted Aerodrums to be about more than just playing drums without a physical kit. These timing and skills challenges take Aerodrumming to a new level, giving players a fun and interactive way to develop their skills while competing with other drummers around the world.

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!”

Aerodrums are a patented, revolutionary development in tools for drummers, with a mission to offer groundbreaking instruments that empower drummers of all levels to practice freely, learn faster, record and perform without boundaries. Unlike Aerodrums, traditional electronic drums cannot tell which hand the drummer used to hit a drum.

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

Musicians can explore a new way to drum by purchasing Aerodrums at aerodrums.com.

See also: Blog – Announcing new mini-games and challenges on Aerodrums 2!