Time Guru Metronome
Time Guru will strengthen your internal sense of musical time via random muting.
Thanks everyone for the success of Time Guru! It makes me very happy that so many my fellow musicians find this to be a useful tool. If you have improvement suggestions, please give me feedback at [email protected] ----------------Guitar Player Magazine says: "This ingenious super metronome was developed by funky-as-hell Sco sideman Avi Bortnick. It will leave out beats randomly to force you to strengthen your own inner time-keeping muscles, and it has other cool features for odd meters, drum machine-style patterns, and more...this is an awesome learning, grooving, solidifying tool."NoTreble.com says: "I love the aesthetic and layout of Time Guru. It’s very simple and elegant. Time Guru also offers ability to set randomness of your subdivisions (great for testing your internal clock)... There is one thing that Time Guru does that I absolutely love, and for which, this app will always live on my Phone – at the top of the screen, you will see a series of numbers (1-7). When you press a number, it is set first in a sequence and you can choose a subdivision that will then repeat that number of times (or set it to rest that number of times). Sound confusing? It isn’t, because the layout is so simple. Every time you press a new number, it is set next in the sequence and you choose your continue to choose your subdivisions."Develop your inner sense of rhythm with Time Guru - the only metronome with the ability to mute its sound at random, in sequenced patterns, or both, so that you can assess whether you tend to rush or drag or loose your place with odd meters. Time Guru can periodically leave you on your own so that you strengthen your own internal sense of time, rather than relying on the constant, rigid, external time keeping of a metronome. Its like training wheels that sometimes come up off the ground.Time Guru also features:-the ability to play in different time signatures or sequences of time signatures (additive time signatures)-create rhythmic drum-machine like patterns-save presets for tempo, meter, sound and muting--35 loud sound sets;-Human or robot voice counting in English, Chinese, French, German or Russian - great for teaching!-tap tempo (5 to 300 BPM range)-super accurate, rock-solid timing via a customized audio engine. And of course it can function as a normal metronome. It is the ultimate tool for becoming a rock-steady, time guru.See the instructional videos on Youtube: https://youtu.be/SFBSZ47kP0I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNG4SVnE9uQhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8uIMesacIkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plyrsq25jkg•Minor adjustments to info page•Same swipe-downward to delete behavior
Thanks everyone for the success of Time Guru! It makes me very happy that so many my fellow musicians find this to be a useful tool. If you have improvement suggestions, please give me feedback at [email protected] ----------------Guitar Player Magazine says: "This ingenious super metronome was developed by funky-as-hell Sco sideman Avi Bortnick. It will leave out beats randomly to force you to strengthen your own inner time-keeping muscles, and it has other cool features for odd meters, drum machine-style patterns, and more...this is an awesome learning, grooving, solidifying tool."NoTreble.com says: "I love the aesthetic and layout of Time Guru. It’s very simple and elegant. Time Guru also offers ability to set randomness of your subdivisions (great for testing your internal clock)... There is one thing that Time Guru does that I absolutely love, and for which, this app will always live on my Phone – at the top of the screen, you will see a series of numbers (1-7). When you press a number, it is set first in a sequence and you can choose a subdivision that will then repeat that number of times (or set it to rest that number of times). Sound confusing? It isn’t, because the layout is so simple. Every time you press a new number, it is set next in the sequence and you choose your continue to choose your subdivisions."Develop your inner sense of rhythm with Time Guru - the only metronome with the ability to mute its sound at random, in sequenced patterns, or both, so that you can assess whether you tend to rush or drag or loose your place with odd meters. Time Guru can periodically leave you on your own so that you strengthen your own internal sense of time, rather than relying on the constant, rigid, external time keeping of a metronome. Its like training wheels that sometimes come up off the ground.Time Guru also features:-the ability to play in different time signatures or sequences of time signatures (additive time signatures)-create rhythmic drum-machine like patterns-save presets for tempo, meter, sound and muting--35 loud sound sets;-Human or robot voice counting in English, Chinese, French, German or Russian - great for teaching!-tap tempo (5 to 300 BPM range)-super accurate, rock-solid timing via a customized audio engine. And of course it can function as a normal metronome. It is the ultimate tool for becoming a rock-steady, time guru.See the instructional videos on Youtube: https://youtu.be/SFBSZ47kP0I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNG4SVnE9uQhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8uIMesacIkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plyrsq25jkg•Minor adjustments to info page•Same swipe-downward to delete behavior
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A fantastic tool to internalize tempo and pulse. Does what it says with simple but effective configuration options.
Great for training your sense of time in auditions! As Principal trombone of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and formerly the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, this tool was essential to my audition prep
Overly complicated for a metronome. I've been playing music for 45+ years and have had a variety of metronomes. All have been simple and easy to use. Except this ap, which has nothing intuitive about it and offers no basic guidance on how to use it. Complete waste of money. Avoid it.
No easy way to clear.
No help how to use it
Well I'm sure the non-musician designers and programmers are beaming with pride but this is more like a game than a metronome. It is not intuitive and instructions are useless. ......... Edit 05/01/2021. No, "just start pushing buttons" is for gamers. I recommend a great book for "programmers", "Don't Make Me Think". What does the the row of numbered circles correspond to? Let's start there.
Time signatures can be counted numerous ways depending on the feel of the riff. This was one of the few apps that allows me to program in this very thing. Example 7...1234567,or 1231234, or 1212123,or 1231212...I can even save the different count patterns by the name of the song they represent. Hope this helps.
By far the best metronome app I've found. The random skipping of beats is an awesome feature too. Thanks! (No idea how hard it'd be to implement, but if there was a feature to share presets with other users of the app, that would be incredibly useful)
Love the random mute feature! Also really intuitive for using in compound time signatures with custom groupings.
I love the simplicity of this app and the fact that you can use multiple time signatures in a queue, but I wish you could change the click rate without changing the time signature. To elaborate, right now the click of the metronome follows the time signature (4/4 time signature = 1/4 note click). It would be nice to have an 1/8 or 1/16 note click with an accent on the 1 of the bar instead of being limited to a click rate which is tied to the time signature.