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The software conductor or drum sticks of this metronome show each beat crisply to help you to play exactly on beat, even with swing and other irregular beat patterns. Conductors often "bounce" their baton in the same way, so it is like having your own personal conductor to help you hit the beat!

Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Oxford, United Kingdom - September 15th 2009, Robert Inventor announces an update of Bounce Metronome Pro 3.2.

The software conductor or drum sticks of this metronome help you to play exactly on the beat and in time. What a difference it makes!

Features:

* Software Conductor with crisp bounce (ictus) to help hit the beat

* Conducting patterns, bounce inside oval,or bounce back and forth

* Any time signatures such as simple or compound time, and odd time signatures

* Beat subdivisions

* Swing

* Drum and Dance rhythms

* Syncopation

* polyrhythms (cross rhythms).

* Additive rhythms & rhythm cycles

* Accent or skip beats

* Adjust individual beat volumes and times

* Or steady tick

* Practice slowly varying tempo

* Easy to use

Also includes harmonic metronomes and a version of Theremin's Rhythmicon - intricate pitched harmonic polyrhythms varied by the player - the first ever drum machine.

It's extremely user friendly. To get started, you just click one of the preset buttons for the rhythm you want to play, and adjust the tempo with the handy dial.

"You can use it with the sound switched off, as a silent metronome."

You can also practice smooth and gradual tempo changes with the tempo variation feature.

The innovative gravity bounce helps you to play exactly on the beat. This is especially useful when you are learning a rhythm with irregular beat patterns.

"It's like having your own conductor to help you keep in time"

Why do these visuals work so well? It is easy and natural to anticipate the moment when a bouncing ball will hit the ground - so that you can sing, play or clap exactly in time with it.

This technique was used in the "Song Car tunes" towards the end of the silent movies era then for some of the first movies with sound. The ball bouncing on the lyrics helped the audience to sing along. Bounce Metronome now has a separate "Car Tunes" metronome. As with the original movies, the bouncing ball bounces off the words of the song. The shadow below helps to make the moment of the bounce itself easier to see.

Conductors also use the same technique - they will often bounce the baton off an "invisible plane" which makes it easy for the orchestra to anticipate the exact moment of the beat so that they can play along in time.

"The motion is like bouncing a golf ball on pavement. Your performers must be trained to play exactly at the bottom of the beat."
P 19, Brock McElheran, "Conducting Technique for beginners and professionals".

Easy to change the tempo and stop and start the metronome with taps on the backspace or return key while you are playing a musical instrument. This also helps make the program accessible for blind musicians.

The download includes a free 30 day trial with all the features completely unlocked.

For the download, screen shots, and more information visit
http://www.bouncemetronome.com/metronome-software.htm
Direct download link:
http://www.bouncemetronome.com/Setup_Bounce_Metronome.exe

Contact
Robert Walker
Robert Inventor
support@bouncemetronome.com
http://www.bouncemetronome.com/