Listen first, play second
The machine plays a beat on the squares. It ticks a bar to count you in,
then it is your turn to play the same thing back on the four pads — same
drum, same place in the bar. The dashed squares on the left are your run-up:
nothing ever lands in there, and nothing you play in there counts, so coming
in a little early costs you nothing. Get the
whole bar right and the next one has one more tap in it. Get anything wrong
and you lose a heart and hear the same beat again. When the bar is full it
starts speeding up instead. On a computer the pads are D F J K.
Free Play has no hearts and no score. Tap the squares to build a beat
of your own and it loops round for ever. It starts two bars long — use the
bars buttons to make it up to four, and slide the grid sideways with
your finger when it is wider than the screen.
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