Keep time with the Ritmik metronome.
Set the tempo, choose the meter, and let the beat run while you play. It is part of the Ritmik app, so the rhythm you are reading and the click you are following live in the same place.
Set the tempo, choose the meter, and let the beat run while you play. It is part of the Ritmik app, so the rhythm you are reading and the click you are following live in the same place.
Start slower than the piece. Drag the pendulum until the hands are comfortable, then read the marking to know where you are.
Four beats for a maqsum, nine for a Roman havası. The accent bar redraws itself so you can see the measure before you hear it.
The first beat is accented, so you always know where the measure turns over. Open a rhythm from the library and read it while the click runs.
The default click covers most practice. The other four exist for when it stops being enough, a loud frame drum sitting on top of a thin tick, or a measure you would rather hear counted than feel.
The default metronome tick. Short and narrow, so it stays out of the way of what you are playing.
FreeA harder wooden attack. Easier to pick out when a frame drum is covering the click.
Ritmik ProA ringing tone that carries past the attack, so the beat is still there a moment later.
Ritmik ProA rounder, softer sound than a click. Gentler to sit with over a long practice session.
Ritmik ProA voice counting the beats out loud. The quickest way to find where one is in an aksak usûl.
Ritmik ProMaqsum is a 4/4 Arabic rhythm and the clearest way to see what a metronome is actually for. The click marks four beats. The strokes do not all land on them, and that gap is the part worth practising.
Open Ritmik in your browser to write and hear a rhythm, or get the app to practise it with the metronome running.
Open RitmikYes. Tempo, meter and the default click cost nothing. A few alternative sounds, the woodblock, the bell, the pulse and the spoken count, are part of Ritmik Pro.
From 40 to 240 BPM, which covers everything from a slow usûl study to a darbuka solo. Each tempo shows its Italian marking, Largo through Presto, with a plain description underneath.
Yes. Beats per measure and beat value are set separately, so aksak usûls in 7/8, 9/8 and 10/8 are as easy to dial in as 4/4. The accent bar above the steppers shows one block per beat.
Yes. The downbeat is accented, so you can hear where the measure starts without counting it out. That is what makes an odd meter playable rather than just audible.
The classic click is there by default. Ritmik Pro adds a woodblock, a bell, a pulse and a spoken count, which is useful when the click disappears underneath a loud frame drum.
The metronome is part of the Ritmik app for iPhone and iPad. The browser studio at ritmik.net plays your written rhythm back at any tempo, which covers most practice on a laptop.
