RhythmSource Launches New Metronome

RhythmSource™ has set a new standard with the national launch of its new Metronome, the first fundamental patent in metronomes since the 1816 Maëlzel Metronome, which was endorsed by Beethoven and is still used today. The RhythmSource Metronome offers significant advancements over current pendulum-style and electronic metronomes, and a new approach to rhythm that will change music teaching and practice, helping musicians more deeply study, feel and understand rhythm through touch, sight and sound.

The RhythmSource Metronome revolutionary design features a circular "clock" system with lights, sound and pulses, offering total rhythmic immersion and showcasing how rhythm and time are cyclical. This cycle effect occurs harmonically, as notes go around in a circle rather than back and forth, such as in the circle of fourths. By pulling the aural and visual into one aspect, the metronome shows the circular and cyclical nature of time and rhythm, offering students, teachers and practicing professionals a paradigm shift in understanding rhythm and a tool to bring the rhythms of nature into the practice room in a visual way that's never been done before.

Traditional metronomes go tick-tock to beat out the tempo—number of beats per minute. Instead, the RhythmSource Metronome has lights, sounds and physical pulses to sound and visually show the meter, phrase and the cyclical flow of music, allowing musicians for the first time to study with rests, add accents wherever they choose, create crescendi and diminuendi, shading and dynamic phrasing. The metronome's patented user interface brings custom control of each beat's volume, sound or subdivision so musicians can easily create virtually infinite rhythms. With the ability to hear and see rhythm and musicality simultaneously comes more ways to convey rhythm—the backbone of music.

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With the RhythmSource Metronome, students and professionals will get a new sense of understanding rhythm, not just tempo, and will be able to practice music in ways that are more in tune with nature. Previous pendulum-style and electronic metronomes were based on the physical manifestation of pulse—but in nature, pulse is really a full circle and the RhythmSource Metronome reflects this shift from pendulum to circle.

For more information, visit their web site at www.rhythmsource.com.