Meet the Mixers: Practice Tools from Marimba Warehouse

Five new practice apps are coming soon to Marimba Warehouse: Melody Mixer, Groove Mixer, Grid Mixer, Tenor Mixer and Bass Mixer. Each one writes a fresh, properly notated exercise every time you press Mix It Up, then plays it back with real recorded sounds. You get endless new reading material, and it's never the same page twice.

A look inside

Each mixer writes a fresh exercise in clean notation, ready to play along with. From top to bottom: Melody, Groove, Grid, Tenor and Bass.

Meet The Mixers

Mixer	Who it's for	What it writes
Melody Mixer	Band and orchestra students, mallet players	Sight-reading melodies in any key and clef, from simple quarter notes to dotted rhythms, ties, double stops and snare rolls, played on the instrument voice you pick
Groove Mixer	Drum set players	Rock/Pop, Swing and Shuffle grooves with ghost notes and hi-hat articulations, on a recorded drum kit
Grid Mixer	Snare and battery players	Rudiment and sticking grids with accents, flams, diddles and rudiments built in
Tenor Mixer	Quads, quints and sixes	Tenor parts with drum paths, crosses, scrapes, scrape rolls and double stops, notated the way modern features are written
Bass Mixer	Marching bass lines (3, 4 or 5 drums)	Split patterns like Split Singles, Bug-a-duhs and Lasers, mixed with unisons and rim clicks

Features in every mixer

• Mix It Up: one click writes a brand-new exercise from the settings you choose.

• Real notation: clean, engraved sheet music, not a grid or a guess.

• Recorded sounds: playback uses real instrument samples, so it sounds like the drum or instrument you're reading for.

• Practice controls: tempo you can type in, metronome, count-in, loop and a release measure to land each repetition.

• Your settings, your level: choose the rhythms, patterns and difficulty, from first-week beginners to advanced players.

• Share links: send an exact setup to a student or section with one link.

• Print or save: save any exercise as a PDF for the stand or the folder.

• Any screen: works on a computer, tablet or phone.

Why it helps

Students stop memorizing the page and start reading it. Every exercise is new, so the skill that grows is sight-reading, not recall. Hearing it played back on real sounds shows exactly how it should feel at tempo.

Teachers get unlimited material at the right level in seconds. Set the rhythms and patterns for a lesson, then send the link so every student practices the same thing at home.

Directors and section leaders can warm up a full line on the vocabulary your show actually uses: tenor crosses and scrapes, bass splits, battery rudiments, all in standard notation.

Plans and free trial

Every plan starts with a 3-day free trial and then bills monthly.

Plan	What's included	Price
All Mixer Apps	All five mixers	$10.99/month
Melody Mixer	Melody Mixer	$4.99/month
Groove Mixer	Groove Mixer	$5.99/month
Marching Mixer Series	Grid, Tenor and Bass Mixer	$7.99/month

The mixers launch soon at marimbawarehouse.com. Create a free member account now and you'll be ready to start your trial on day one.