MP3 Metronome Tracks for your iPod

Trent-Drummer · #1 09-03-2010, 02:19 PM

Guys and Gals,

I was sent this on Facebook today by a friend of mine and thought it might be of use to fellow drummers.

http://www.MetronomeTracks.net

They are basically some free mp3 metronome tracks you can put on your iPod for practice. I just download them and they sound great.

Enjoy!

AnOasis · #2 09-03-2010, 03:46 PM

Weird. My metronome has a headphone jack. That seems to work pretty good.

Trent-Drummer · #3 09-04-2010, 01:56 AM

Yeah well I don't have a metronome and I'm sure there are plenty of others out there who don't also - so it's a great alternative. But thanks for your 'useful' comment...

Fuo · #4 09-04-2010, 02:39 AM

I would get a metronome imo. Having a different MP3 for each every tempo/beat combination could get tedious and hard drive consuming...

Although... you can make your own too, for free, using Audacity's "Generate Click" feature (which is nice when you're traveling and forget your 'nome).

Another nice option is using notation software, that has MIDI playback, like Finale, Sibelius, or MuseScore (free/open source) and just making a simple one measure with 1/4 woodblocks or something and putting a long repeat around it. I did this to create "quiet count" play-along (3 measures of ticks, 1 measure rest). This is also nice because the tempo can be easily changed without creating a whole new file.

Migaluch · #5 09-04-2010, 03:21 AM

free mp3 metronomes? When i spent 10 bucks for one on itunes????

Mega-Pissed... ill try to check it out. :)

deryck · #6 09-04-2010, 09:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Trent-Drummer

Yeah well I don't have a metronome and I'm sure there are plenty of others out there who don't also - so it's a great alternative. But thanks for your 'useful' comment...

Your sarcasm isn't needed. Show some respect and don't act like a snob.

Considering how inexpensive metronomes are and how cumbersome having to flip through an MP3 player would be.. I'd pay for the metronome.

Spinozalove · #7 09-04-2010, 09:59 AM

There are planty of free metronome downloads on the net. I think it would be easier to download a free metronome than have tracks on your ipod, unless of course you do not have a computer in your practice space.

lopex · #8 09-04-2010, 11:55 AM

Thank you for this. So useful! Cheers for this dude. Much appreciated.

yesdog · #9 09-04-2010, 04:10 PM

Here is a link for a metronome for any one who has an ipod touch or I-phone. 1.99 I think its one of the best metronomes I have ever used. to many features to describe. check out the link

http://frozenape.com/Tempo/Tempo.html

Migaluch · #10 09-04-2010, 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by yesdog

Here is a link for a metronome for any one who has an ipod touch or I-phone. 1.99 I think its one of the best metronomes I have ever used. to many features to describe. check out the link

http://frozenape.com/Tempo/Tempo.html

Just to add to this, i have heard that the iPhone and iTouch metronomes are inaccurate. Is that true?

yesdog · #11 09-05-2010, 06:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Migaluch

Just to add to this, i have heard that the iPhone and iTouch metronomes are inaccurate. Is that true?

I have used for shows and the recordings sounded dead on. Download it set to 60 bpm and time it. if it does sixty beats in one minute I would consider that accurate. I have been using this app for a while now. I have never heard it hiccup and I have tested with my other metronome at the same tempo, it was dead nuts on with it, I let them click together for a couple of minutes and nothing changed.

Trent-Drummer · #12 09-05-2010, 10:13 AM

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Originally Posted by deryck

Your sarcasm isn't needed. Show some respect and don't act like a snob.

Considering how inexpensive metronomes are and how cumbersome having to flip through an MP3 player would be.. I'd pay for the metronome.

I simply replied to a sarcastic comment with sarcasm - I was just trying to help out people and so telling me you have a metronome already is of no use to anyone and doesn't need to be posted in this thread - for those people who don't, then these mp3 tracks seem like an easy alternative - for me anyway.

Most of the online metronome's I have used and heard are inaccurate. Majority are built using flash and are unable to be 100% accurate - it's a fact. Also people seem to think these days every second person owns an iphone or ipod touch - it's simply not the case. There are far more people out there with regular ipods that don't take apps and this will suit those people.

Take it or leave it but I was just under the assumption this was a drummers forum where we try and help out each other as much as we can - my mistake?