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Visual metronome (extract from What is special about this metronome software) Intro This visual metronome is especially useful as a metronome for drums and other percussion, piano, violin, and other instruments that can play very loud notes, loud enough to mask the sound of the tick when you are exactly in time. It is also suitable for deaf musicians. The visuals also help you to play more exactly on the beat even if you play a quieter instrument such as flute or recorder. Silent metronome Since it can also be used as a silent metronome, it may also be useful for instance in a recording studio if you want a completely silent studio metronome to help with sync. Also means you can practice without a metronome tick in your practice session - some people find the constant tick tock sound of a metronome annoying so if you are in that situation, that it's either annoying to yourself or to someone else - then this may help you. Play exactly in time with a silent conducting metronome - and no more metronome noise :-).

The metronome plays this with sound - also don't worry if the flash animation in this web page hesitates - the metronome doesn't do that
. For details see Animation glitches.

“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

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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"

For animations of the gravity bounce, see Watch the Gravity Bounce visuals

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To find out more about how this innovation is possible, and its background, read on.

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Why do these visuals work so well?

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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."
P 19, Brock McElheran, "Conducting Technique for beginners and professionals", revised edition (1989).

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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