This metronome can play drum rhythms such as paradiddles, and dance rhythms with a mix of different note sizes. You can also use it as a Flamenco metronome. Select from a drop list of examples or enter a new rhythm. Optionally add swing or practice your rhythm with a gradually changing tempo (e.g. getting faster and faster or slower and slower over a number of minutes).
Here is a paradiddle played slowly in Bounce Metronome Pro:
In the program itself you can play it at any speed, also use gradually changing tempo e.g. set it to gradually play the paradiddle faster and faster.
To find it, download Bounce Metronome Pro, and select the Drum & Dance Metronome from the drop list. You get a free 30 day Test drive - with all the features completely unlocked.
Here is another face on view of the paradiddle played slightly faster:
The visuals help you play in time with the metronome on loud instruments such as drums even when playing at your loudest and in time with the metronome.
Usually when you are most in time with the metronome, the sound of the metronome tick vanishes - when you most need to hear it!
The drum stick visuals let you keep in time when you can no longer hear the metronome.
Here is a SILENT edge on view of the paradiddle - note how you can still tap in time with the beats very easily. The visuals are so precise you can use them in place of a metronome with sound - as precise as if you had your own conductor to help you keep in time.
If you are into polyrhythms, you can also do things such as play a paradiddle polyrhythmically in the same time as a double paradiddle. See Polyrhythms with varied beat sizes.
As with the Basic Metronome, you can accent or unaccent beats with RIGHT CLICK, skip beats with LEFT CLICK, adjust beat volumes with MIDDLE CLICK or SHIFT + LEFT CLICK. For details see the page about the Basic metronome.
You can also play your rhythm with swing, or practice with a gradually changing tempo, or add a lilt to the bar timings. For more about this see the page about the Pro metronome.
Note. This clip is just to give a taste of what the program is like. Please don't expect it to be perfectly in time especially if you have lots of programs running or your computer is an old one.
The thing is that the clips on this page use a fixed frame rate, so may well stutter on some computers, and be irregular in timing. For details see Animation looping and stutters .
The program itself plays the bounces exactly in time with the intended rhythm no matter what the frame rate is that it is able to achieve on your computer. Try it out for yourself with the free 30 day trial - you should find that the program itself is perfectly in time with no stutters.
You can make any rhythm you can notate using quarter notes, eighth notes and so on (crotchets, quavers etc in UK notation).
You enter the rhythm using the symbols: = - O o . " ' for the various sizes of note, with O for quarter note, and o for eighth note, and combine them e.g. as Oo for a dotted quarter note. Rests made by prefixing the note with an *.
You can alternatively use musical notes or a limited subset of the abc notation.
Your rhythm is then displayed using the smallest note size needed for your rhythm and with skipped beats used to make the note sizes needed for your rhythm. You could make the rhythm using skipped beats yourself. The rhythm notation is just a quicker way to do it for these rhythms.
