The RhythmSource Metronome
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The RhythmSource Metronome Fact Sheet
The first fundamental patent in metronomes since the 1815 Maëlzel Metronome (endorsed by Beethoven and still today’s standard), the Rhythm Source Metronome is a revolutionary teaching and practice tool helping musicians more deeply study, feel and understand rhythm through touch, sight and sound, in an entirely new way.
- Revolutionary, circular clock system with lights, sound and pulses allows musicians to see, feel and hear the meter, phrase, and flow of the music, for a total rhythmic immersion.
- The patented Rhythm SourceTM Metronome sounds and visually shows the meter and phrase, exemplifying the cyclical flow of music. Current metronomes only sound or show pulses (the number of beats per minute) outside of the musical context.
- Created by a musician for musicians—from children and absolute beginners to world-class professionals. Inventor A.C. Lewis is an expert symphony, rock, jazz, punk, Latin and African music percussionist; teacher; and author of Rhythm: What It Is and How to Improve Your Sense of It.
- Patented circular system allows students to see, hear and feel 7 meters—2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8—and 6 polymeters: 2 over 3, 3 over 4, 4 over 5, 2 over 5, 2 over 7, and 4 over 6.
- Provides 25 subdivision patterns, allowing musicians to easily write literally millions of rhythms to practice by, including fives and sevens within fives and sevens.
- Expanded tempo range over traditional metronomes for the serious musician: mm=6 to 360. The range of traditional metronomes is mm=40 to 208.
- Glows in the dark and designed to sit well on a music stand.
- Instead of electronic beeps (notoriously anxiety-producing for musicians) Rhythm Source features nine natural percussive sounds, including the sound of an old-fashioned, acoustic, swing-arm metronome. Each beat and bar of music can be customized with multiple sounds.
- Each beat has an individual volume control, allowing musicians for the first time to study with rests, for development of inner pulse, and add accents wherever they choose, create crescendi and diminuendi, shading and dynamic phrasing – allowing rhythm and musicality to be heard simultaneously, making practicing and teaching easier, more productive and more fun.
- Each beat has a custom control so musicians can pick a beat, change its volume, sound, or subdivision, allowing them to see the beat, touch the beat, and change that beat’s volume, sound or subdivision. The Rhythm Source Metronome’s patented user interface allows the quick and easy creation of millions of rhythms.
- Built-in memory lets musicians save the rhythms and tempos created for each piece they’re practicing.
- Just intoned 14-tone chromatic scale, with each pitch in its most natural harmonic relationship to A-440.
- Beginners and teachers can easily reach out, touch, and change all the beats in the bar, making explanation and understanding of quarter, eights, sixteenth and whole notes immediate, easy, and intuitive.
- Advanced Musicians can quickly write and hear complex contemporary rhythms without the unwieldy menu systems of drum machines
Music is composed of two elements, pitch and rhythm. Of the two, rhythm is more important. — Beulah Forbes, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
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