A metronome is a device that produces a steady pulse to help musicians play in time. The pulse is measured in BPM (beats-per-minute). A tempo marking of 60 BPM equals one beat per second, while 120 BPM equals two beats per second.

A metronome is commonly used as a practice tool to help maintain a steady tempo while learning difficult passages. It is also used in live performances and recording studios to ensure an accurate tempo throughout the performance or session.


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EDIT: Something like that is the indicator LED of the LFO section in Retrosynth. When you sync the LFO to the tempo and set it to "" and a square waveform, you get a blinking metronome light. But fire up the whole plugin and cover the whole screen for just a tiny LED? There must be a better solution, right?

Looking for a simple app to play along with, that I can clearly see the beats and bars, and can take odd time signatures, and adjust BPM. (so instead of listening to a click track - I am visually following a metronome)

There must be some good drummer apps out there that are visual metronome with a large onscreen readout.

Any Ideas?

@Mayo said:

Looking for a simple app to play along with, that I can clearly see the beats and bars, and can take odd time signatures, and adjust BPM. (so instead of listening to a click track - I am visually following a metronome)

There must be some good drummer apps out there that are visual metronome with a large onscreen readout.

Any Ideas?

Sometimes I feed the click to outputs 3-4, which are fed to an external mixer (in my setup) and use the meters on the mixer as an external visual metronome. If your audio interface has output meters and an extra channel or two, you could accomplish that on the interface.

This is really a great tool. and it is free. It has tons of metronome options for verbal callout, time signature, divisions, etc.

Most importantly (for your use) it receives tempo over Ableton Link. And it can give a visual flash on 1 or on each beat.

The TECHNOLOGY exists. The Stereo Memory Man With Hazarai can save presets with tempos, along with a flashing light. I don't think anyone is making a visual metronome with presets at the moment though.

With the rhythm watch you could almost tap it with your foot. Even check out the metronomes without presets, and during practice write down your bpm next to the song on the set list. Then you could save money.

Is there any benefit to using a normal metronome ? Should I keep trying ? With the visual one everything is much easier. Tweet !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1445120298060-0'); }); Replies (10)

Mark BouquetEdited: April 24, 2019, 2:12 PMĀ  Have you considered a Peterson "Body Beat Pulse Solo" device? It will plug into your mobile phone, or any metronome with a headphone jack. And with Peterson's own metronome app the device will even subdivide beats. I'll leave it at that and let you look it up, except to say that I think they're great.Ā 

Mary Ellen GoreeApril 24, 2019, 3:08 PMĀ  If you're a complete beginner, practicing with a metronome at this point is more than a bit premature. You should be focusing on correct left and right hand positions, and landing on the pitches in tune. There's plenty of time to work on rhythm with a metronome once holding the instrument and producing a good sound has become more automatic.Ā 

Cotton MatherApril 24, 2019, 6:17 PMĀ  I can't stand visual metronomes myself, but that's me.

I think you will be more precise with a standard metronome (we react faster to sounds than sights), and that's what you want when you're *learning* a piece. It also lets you look out the window and contemplate life while you work.Ā 

Catherine KostynApril 24, 2019, 7:31 PMĀ  I'm not a teacher, and only returned to the violin 5 months ago. I wasn't a complete beginner, remembered more than I thought I would, but it's only been about a month since my teacher started me working closely with a metronome as things become more challenging than they once were. Like Timothy I use a Korg, mine is a tuner/metronome combination and there are various options for the metronome and other things that are nice to have and can be useful. It's also pretty inexpensive.Battery life is great, speaker is in the front (not the back like some), and you do have the option to turn the sound off and use the light if you wish. Personally I don't think that would work for me as I'm reading music, but that's me. I'm easily enough distracted from the music to play by ear as it is! _60/Ā 

Gene WieApril 24, 2019, 9:56 PMĀ  I stopped using standard metronomes because for the most part they don't indicate WHERE they are in a given measure. I've actually started using a drum machine software (DM1) on my iOS device, connected to a bluetooth speaker to provide students that need to work on pulse a variety of pop, rock, techno, and other beats while they play everything from long tones to scales to pieces of music. Doing slow practice on difficult passages with a drumbeat going at quarter note = 30-40 is awesome because you can hear most of the subdivided parts of each beat, and each part of the measure is distinctly different.It's been a Renaissance in pulse steadiness and rhythmic accuracy in my grade 4 and 5 string orchestra classes, as well as my elementary ensemble in my youth orchestra--some of my private students have been astounded at the improvement in their rhythmic consistency after a few weeks of doing this. Practicing with a drum machine "locks in" everyone to the pulse in ways a standard metronome doesn't. I was very skeptical at first, but I've been delighted with the results!Ā 

Albrecht ZumbrunnApril 26, 2019, 6:32 AMĀ  Isn't the tick of a metronome much more precisely marking a point in time than a flash and therefor inherently preferable? I say that as someone who does not like that tick at all.My problem with acoustic metronomes is this: Try to work with a quartet and the metronome. All of a sudden you can't hear the thing any more (that used to get on your nerves so terribly when used "solo"!) unless everybody plays pianississimo all the time.I'd like a way to modify the loudness of the metronome but mine does not allow for that (and the old beautiful mechanical ones don't anyway!).Ā 

Steve JonesEdited: April 26, 2019, 6:56 AMĀ  To echo Albrecht, the auditory system has a far more acute sense of timing than the visual. I think I'd find it very hard to synch with a flash faster than about 100/min. The click track generator on Audacity distinguishes the first beat (tick) from the rest of the Bar (tock) and also gives you the choice of other annoying noises like cowbells and pingsĀ 

Albrecht ZumbrunnMay 2, 2019, 2:15 PMĀ  A question about the metronome pointing out the first beat: Does anybody feel this is helpful? I don't. I thought the designers offered the option because it is easy to program and sounds like an additional feature (for which money can be charged). But what does one do with it that helps practicing? googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1445120547957-0'); }); This discussion has been archived and is no longer accepting responses.

In the main part of our study, we presented the budgerigars with auditory and visual cues simultaneously to facilitate the association between the LED key and the reward as per the operant conditioning protocol10,11,12. However, it is important to test entrainment to auditory stimuli alone because this is the modality of interest in the vocal learning and rhythmic synchronization hypothesis5.

Overall, our results demonstrated that the budgerigars can entrain to external stimuli. Phase-matched tapping with the stimulus onset and the frequent observation of NMA by the budgerigars strongly suggested that they were truly entrained to the metronome, even though we did not require them to move rhythmically.

Try to drop this, relying on visual cues is a bad habit and will hold you back. It is easier now because humans are visual dominant. But music is about hearing the beat, not seeing the beat. Use your ears.

Artur, your post is timely - I found myself doing just this last night! I was working on a song that I know pretty well, trying to improve timing and strumming. I found myself losing track of the metronome and playing increasingly quickly, no matter how loud I set the beeps. Like you, I tried looking at the metronome UI to keep pace, and like you I found it was much easier.

I just tried to beat the rhythm on 130 bmp, using the metronome as a visual cue and by sound. The first one is easier. And I can easily memorize tabs by heart, as well as chord sequences.

But anyway, thanks for the advice

I think there is still a compromise solution: first practice with visual cues and then move as quickly as possible to listening to the beat.

But maybe the solution Melody_Mosaic gave is more productive. It is better to try different options and find out what is best

In all ages and countries, music and dance have constituted a central part in human culture and communication. Recently, vocal-learning animals such as parrots and elephants have been found to share rhythmic ability with humans. Thus, we investigated the rhythmic synchronization of budgerigars, a vocal-mimicking parrot species, under controlled conditions and a systematically designed experimental paradigm as a first step in understanding the evolution of musical entrainment. We trained eight budgerigars to perform isochronous tapping tasks in which they pecked a key to the rhythm of audio-visual metronome-like stimuli. The budgerigars showed evidence of entrainment to external stimuli over a wide range of tempos. They seemed to be inherently inclined to tap at fast tempos, which have a similar time scale to the rhythm of budgerigars' natural vocalizations. We suggest that vocal learning might have contributed to their performance, which resembled that of humans. 0852c4b9a8

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