In short
Time Guru Metronome is an Android training app from Avi Bortnick. It is suitable for developers. It is a great way to take time.
Highlights
Cheaper than a Korg or Dr Beat and do anything they can do
One of the best practice tools I've bought from the Play Store
The perfect metronome app for Android
An excellent app for honing your rhythm using ghost clicks
Love the subdivision options too
Bravo to the developers
Extremely useful for multiple meter practice
And for offering it at such a bargain price
Hats off to Avi for producing a fine metronome
It's so convenient to have on my phone
Completely ignoring any formal structure
Pay no attention to the few poor reviews
Description
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. For the low price of $2.99, 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. It's 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: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNG4SVnE9uQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8uIMesacIk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plyrsq25jkg
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