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“I found it reliable enough to abandon audio clicks altogether and use as a silent metronome, which also makes it useful for deaf musicians. Studio owners could display it on screen in their live rooms to keep players in time without them requiring headphones, while a special screen reader is available to blind musicians too” Martin Walker, PC Notes column in Sound On Sound Magazine
BounceThe 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.
For animations of the gravity bounce, see Watch the Gravity Bounce visuals You get a free 30 day Test drive - with all the features fully unlocked. To get the program go here : To find out about it's other features see Details and Features. If you have already downloaded it and wish to purchase, see Purchase. Note that there is a Money Back Guarantee if you purchase it and then find it isn't suitable for your needs. To find out more about how this innovation is possible, and its background, read on. 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 "Car tunes" movies towards the end of the silent movies era and for the first movies with sound. The ball bouncing on the lyrics helped the audience to sing along with the movie. 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:
There's an animation of this here: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - Sound Car Tune 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." Indeed, you can use this metronome purely visually even without the tick and still play exactly on the beat even for irregular rhythms such as swing. You can switch off the sound for Bounce Metronome and use it for practice as a silent metronome. With this innovation, the visuals become primary, and it becomes much easier to practise rhythms with swing and irregular beats as you can anticipate the exact moment of an irregular beat visually. The drum stick or conductor's baton visuals let you do this. That's why it is so suitable for rhythms with swing and irregular beats. It is like having your own personal conductor to help you keep in time. |
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