I’ve tried all sorts of metronome soft­ware. Frankly, much of it is dreck, expen­sive dreck. I hate it when some­one wants to charge as much for a metronome pro­gram as an actual metronome would be. Let’s be hon­est, hav­ing to have boot up my com­puter just to get a rhyth­mic click-click is a pain. If you’re charg­ing $30 for that lit­tle bit of week­end cod­ing you threw up on the web, then I’d rather get myself a small elec­tronic box that fits in the palm of my hand and prob­a­bly even has a tuner; much bet­ter value and convenience.

I was about to give up on the thought of a soft­ware metronome alto­gether when I got weird. Not only is it free, but it is much more usable and flex­i­ble that any other pro­gram I tried. With the abil­ity to use nearly fifty sounds it’s like hav­ing a mini drumkit. I just pick out some of the many sam­ples and go to town. If I’m just doing fin­ger exer­cises then I use it straight up. But the real beauty of this is its abil­ity to do arbi­trary time sig­na­tures, a fea­ture you don’t really find else­where. If you want to get the hang of play­ing in 5/4 then do your­self a favour and down­load this.

http://​www​.pinkandaint​.com/​w​e​i​r​d​m​e​t​.​s​h​tml

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