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"It is fantastic! It does everything I was hoping it would do. It will be very useful in my musical endeavors. I am very pleased. This app will be excellent for any drummer practicing any exercise in an "open-closed" style. I especially like that the acceleration is completely even, instead of speeding up in increments after a certain number of measures. That, coupled with the capability of setting long periods of time for the acceleration lets the drummer concentrate completely on what their hands are actually doing so they'll get the most benefit out of practicing this way."
— Tim R.
"Your program is excellent, and I will be using it a lot."
— Andrei K.
"I didn't really know I needed this but it's actually a very useful app. Great for practising. Simple but full featured. Soon I'll be shredding like Malmsteen!"
— Andrew B.
"Killer app! Must have for every musician in training. Make training fast forward with this metronome! Try it, love it."
— Kalderod
"This is a VERY useful app for practice. I realize a lot of people like to rush when they play, and this app could vindicate them ;) but it is an incredibly useful practice tool. Start out on the A side with a very comfortable tempo and put the "real" tempo on the B side. As you drill passages, you can stop the progress from A to B at any time by a quick tap to the "pause" button. At that point, the metronome stays on the present tempo. When you feel you can go faster, hit "pause" again and it will continue its journey towards the faster tempo. You can take all day to get there or you can do it fairly quickly via the "slope" slider, which tells you how long it will take to reach full tempo. There are about a dozen different sounds available for the clicks. This app saves you the distraction of having to manually change the tempo on your metronome all the time- you can know that after, say, 20 minutes, you'll be at full tempo (where it will stay until you tell it to do otherwise.) This app doesn't help for mixed meters (get "Musician's Metronome" for that!) but it is a good tool for practicing, along with the Peterson tuner app, Jam Player, and Musician's Metronome. Accelerando is very reasonably priced and is extremely useful- highly recommended for serious musicians/students. Update- The developer recently added a fine-tune adjustment which eliminated my one gripe with the app. You can now set it for "start at 87 and end up at 113" etc. Bravo! Now easily worth 5 stars."
— ASOTuba
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I was unwilling/unable to keep up to Apple's ever-changing requirements and removed the app from the App Store. It was good while it lasted.
As a side note, I am developing a hardware version of The Accelerating Metronome. A prototype exists and you can watch it on YouTube.Accelerando Metronomo, an accelerating metronome app for the practicing musician, is designed to help musicians with speed-building practice in a relatively hands-free manner. You specify two tempos, and the metronome will gradually accelerate from one tempo to the other. Besides alleviating the need to repeatedly interrupt finger exercises to increase tempo adjustments, the metronome also provides a smooth, thorough tempo experience (instead of skipping a few bpm each time a button is pressed, as a typical metronome would require). A few other features make the app very useful, such as "Wave Mode", Tap Tempo, user-selectable sounds, and choice of rhythms. Tempo range is from 20 bpm to 600 bpm. Accelerando Metronomo can also produce steady tempo like a traditional metronome.
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- rated a "Killer App" by apps4idevices.com