Video pages: Gravity Bounce - Polyrhythm 3/4 over 4/4 - Conducting Patterns
Time Signatures and Other Rhythms - Polyrhythms - Fractional Beats per measure
conducting patterns - odd time signatures - polyrhythms - all in one page
Conducting Patterns Videos All in One Page
The Gravity Bounce Conductor is a visual metronome For Windows to help you keep time. So, I decided to do these videos from the performer's point of view. For more about this feature, see the main conducting patterns page.
Use the icon at bottom right of any of the videos to view it full screen - the icon with arrows pointing outwards to the four corners. When you show the animation in the software you can also show it full screen - so this gives a good idea of what it is like.
Sreen animations from Bounce Metronome Pro. To play these rhythms at any tempo, get the software:
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Of course the animations in the software are higher quality since these videos are compressed for small download size. Also - if you find that the visuals hesitate in any of these movies - the downloaded program doesn't do that as it is especially designed to play the visuals accurately in time no matter what the CPU load on your computer.
Note - the animations aren't meant to exactly duplicate the movements of a human conductor - some things are easier for a human to do and some things are easier for software to do - though if you want to be able to input your own conducting patterns by hand e.g. conduct one measure of the time signature with the mouse - this is on the "to do" list for the future.
Bounce Metronome Pro beats your rhythms with the precision of a conductor's baton or drum stick. This helps you keep in time and improve your sense of tempo and rhythm.
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Or visit the RobertInventor Youtube site for more videos of Bounce Metronome Pro. Or go back to Conducting Patterns
Bounce Metronome Pro Settings used for the videos on this page
I might add this "look" as a preset to Bounce Metronome Pro in a future upload.
Meanwhile here is how to set it up to show the animations just as in these videos:
Notice how you can hear the beats stereo pan to left and to right to follow the motion of the batons. You can switch that feature on in the Stereo Pan (Ctrl + 50) window - switch on Auto Pan and then in the How to Auto Pan drop list, select Follow the Bouncing Balls.
If you want the appearance of a white conductor's baton as in these videos, then switch on Cone only (hide bouncing balls) in Bouncing Balls - 3D Visuals (Ctrl + 226) and set it to PURE WHITE.
Then still in Bouncing Balls - 3D Visuals (Ctrl + 226), if you want to hide the tempo dial as in these videos, select Image instead of Image and Tempo Dial from the Tempo Dial and Sky drop list.
Then to hide the blocks etc for a simpler look, switch off Blocks, parts strips etc in the same window.
Tweaking
To make the movements of the baton larger as for this page, vary the "Compress hits towards focal point in Bounce Patterns (Ctrl + 227) according to preference.
Also adjust the horizontal and vertical scale in Bouncing Balls - 3D Visuals (Ctrl + 226). Then to adjust the position within the window (or exported video) you can use Alt + right click to drag on the 3D Bounce window.
Oh and I also unselected the Blue with Distance option in the More version of Bouncing Balls - 3D Visuals (Ctrl + 226) - just because for some reason the Blue with Distance feature makes the sky less contrasty when you export it to a saved video (I think because for some reason the export to video uses a slightly earlier version number of OpenGL).
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