Finger-drumming search

Here's an interesting idea: a finger-drumming music search engine. Sometimes we know what kind of music we're in the mood for without knowing an exact genre name or artist, but maybe you could tap out a rough rhythm pretty easily. One of the most distinctive elements of most musical styles is their drum beat. A finger-drumming search engine would turn that beat into a fingerprint that you could match by tapping a screen or a microphone to the rhythm you want.

There are already music search engines like Musipedia or Shazam, but none that are designed to specifically pick up on drum beats. Mostly that's because they assume you're looking for a particular piece of music. I think it would be interesting to search through whole genres and even different tempos within a genre.

Plus it'd mean the desk-drumming skills I have acquired over the years can be useful at last.