Read the rhythm, hear the count-in, tap every note in time.
Every Challenge run waters your plant. Each point you keep is a drop, and the more drops it gets, the more it grows.
Master a card with 10 clean passes in Challenge runs: every note of the card Perfect, and the note before and after it too, with no extra tap in between. Each set of bars counts once per card, so shuffle for more. Runs with the guide sound or the playhead on don’t count. A mastered card turns to foil and earns its badge.
Everything here lives in this browser only. A progress code holds all of it: your plant’s drops of water and rank, top level, card collection, days played and every set of bars above with its runs. Save it as a file (the safest way) and keep it somewhere safe, or copy the code and paste it into Fruity Beats on another device. Restoring only ever adds: nothing on this device is lost.
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Replay the same bars as often as you like. Shuffle deals four new ones.
Every shuffle deals four bars from the sets you switch on here.
Fruity Beats is a free rhythm reading game for music students, teachers and anyone learning to read rhythm. It uses the fruit method: say the fruit, tap the rhythm. A grape is a quarter note, le-mon is two eighth notes and wa-ter-me-lon is four sixteenth notes. New to reading music? Start with the free lessons: twelve short, interactive steps from feeling the beat to triplets and 12/8.
Pick a time signature (4/4, 3/4 or 12/8), switch on the rhythm sets you want, from easy fruit cards to syncopation, dance grooves and famous tunes, then read four bars, listen to the count-in and tap along. Every tap is scored Perfect, Good or Miss. Practice mode loops the bars you find hard, and a share link sends a friend the same rhythm to beat your score. It runs in any browser on a phone, tablet or computer, with nothing to install.
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Space play · L listen · N shuffle · P practice · T time signature · 1–4 pick bars · Esc stop · any key taps