Practice Tool (Metronome)

Tempo and meter

What are you working on?

BPMBeats per bar (grouping)Subdivision

Swing appears with the eighth-note subdivision. Write 3+2+2 for a 7/8 bar, 3+3 for 6/8 in eighths.

Count-in

Tempo ladderoff

Plain click at one tempo.

Start BPMTarget BPMStep (BPM)Block (bars)

Keep clicking at the target (otherwise stop after one block there)

Internal pulse drillsoff

The click drops out, you keep the tempo, the dots keep moving so you can check yourself. Musicians hold tempo better than non-musicians once a click stops; these drills practise exactly that moment.

Gap click (G)Bars with clickSilent barsCheckpoint bell when the click returns

Random dropout (downbeats always sound) 0%

Subdivision drill: cycle 1 → 2 → 3 → 4 per beatBars per step

Droneoff

NoteOctaveWave

Drone volume 25%A4 (Hz)

Per-bar sequence (optional, e.g. D3, A3, D3, G3)

A3 = 220.00 Hz at A4 = 440. Viola open strings: C3, G3, D4, A4. Against a sustained tonic, tune intervals by ear; pure intervals sit off equal temperament by:

Perfect fifth +2 ¢
Perfect fourth -2 ¢
Major third -14 ¢
Minor third +16 ¢
Major sixth -16 ¢
Minor seventh (7th harmonic) -31 ¢

Sound and displayClick

Click voiceMute click (M) — drone and dots keep goingAccent the first beat of each group

Master volume 70%Accent 100%Beat 70%Subdivision 40%

Flash the display on the downbeatSweep bar

Rhythm pattern and polyrhythmoff

Pattern on top of the clickPattern volume 60%

Polyrhythm: cross-beats per bar (0 = off)Cross-beat volume 50%

Session plan4 blocks · 28 min

Short blocks that alternate between passages beat one long block on each: clarinetists who switched pieces every 3 minutes kept more the next day than those who practised each piece for 12 straight minutes (Carter & Grahn 2016). Build the plan, press Interleave, then Run.

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Practice logempty

What you did, not how long, predicts what you keep (Duke, Simmons & Cash 2009). Save a session and tomorrow starts from today's best clean tempo. Entries go to the shared practice log on this device.

Presets and link0 saved

Preset name

Link to this setup (voice assistants can open it)

Parameters: bpm, beats (4 or 3+2+2), sub, swing, volume, accent, voice, countin, ramp (60-120x4@4), mode (rate/auto/shuffle), gap (4/2), dropout, drill, drone (A3 / off), droneSeq, a4, pattern, poly, goal, flash, autostart.

Keys and pedals? for help

Bluetooth page-turner pedals (PageFlip, AirTurn, Cicada) send PageUp/PageDown, arrows, or Space/Enter. Any of those modes works: one pedal for “clean”, one for “missed”, or just start/stop.

Space / Enter: start or stop
↑ / ↓: tempo ±1 (Shift: ±5)
→ / PageDown: block was clean (ladder off: +step)
← / PageUp: block was missed (ladder off: −step)
T: tap tempo
1–6: subdivision
M: mute click
D: drone on/off
G: gap click on/off
F: stand mode
Esc: stop, or leave stand mode