Clave Rhythm

Clave plays one evening across a city: a rain-wet rooftop at dusk, a basement club under brass lamps, a coast road at night, a terracotta plaza under string lights and a tiled rail tunnel. Each place has its band and two songs, and you sit in with them. Last comes a concert hall, where the band plays six classics.

Hit the notes in time with ten original tracks and six classics such as Ode to Joy. Fill the pedal, loop your part and play the overdub on top.

Notes slide down four lanes towards the pads at the bottom. Tap a lane, or press D, F, J or K, as a note reaches its pad; the closer to the beat, the better the hit (Perfect, Great, Good). Hold the long notes until their tail ends, follow slides into the next lane, hit both notes of a double together and drum fast on a roll. Ten hits in a row raise the multiplier, up to four times. Perfect and Great hits fill the loop pedal: tap it, or press Space, and from the next bar your part plays itself while gold overdub notes for a second instrument come down the lanes. Overdub notes pay double. If you miss, the part you are playing drops out of the song until your next hit.