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Hi, how're you doing? Justin here.

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In this video today we're gonna be checking out my new app

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which is the Justinguitar Time Trainer Metronome.

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It is a metronome - but it's got a whole heap more to it.

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It's got three training tools which are gonna really help you develop

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your own internal sense of time.

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Now I'm gonna give you the quick spill about them now

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for those who don't wanna sit through the whole ten minute explanation.

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There's three training modes.

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The first one is called "Bar Breaks"

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which basically stops the beat for a bar or more

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which is a great rhythm guitar development tool.

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So you'll be playing along for three bars with the click

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and then it's gonna stop for a bar,

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you have to keep time and then be playing perfectly in sync

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when the beat starts again.

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For one bar it's not too bad but two, three, four bars is getting harder,

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up to eight bars, that's gonna be a real tough one.

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Mainly I use it for rhythm guitar

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but you can use it for scales or to improv or solo guitar - whatever.

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It's a really good one for developing that kind of your own internal sense of time

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which is a really, really important thing to develop.

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Second training tool is the "Random Beat Drop".

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A lot of guys get, when they're playing with the metronome a lot,

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really rely on that click to be playing in time.

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So what this one does is gradually and slowly and randomly start muting the metronome clicks.

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And you'll find it when you're practicing along with it,

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you gradually get used to the metronome not being there.

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It's kind of removing the safety blanket slowly.

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Great one for doing with your scales as well.

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So, you know, you should be practicing with a normal metronome, too, on my app.

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That is really important.

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We've got one of those built into this of course but

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the "Random Beat Drops" are really a good kind of,

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you know, it gets you out of just really religiously always playing with the metronome, you know,

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- which is a very important skill.

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And the third one, which is one that I've wanted in a metronome for years and years,

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I've called it the "Speed-Upper" which basically is:

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start tempo and end tempo and a duration

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and it's gonna gradually speed up from one tempo to the next tempo

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over the course of that five minutes or whatever.

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You can go from 80 to 100 or whatever

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which is a really, really, super-dooper useful thing for your practice time.

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You know, I'm using it everyday for my own practice as well.

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It's a great thing.

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Of course, it is a full-featured metronome as well.

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We have accents, a few different sounds, tap tempo

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and our audio engine is extremely accurate.

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Most of the apps that I've seen around are not very accurate at all.

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In fact, some of them shouldn't really be even for sale, I think,

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'cause they're probably damaging more than help you by playing along with them.

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The beats were all over the place

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and some of the tempos were completely mislabeled as well.

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So you think that you're going along with 140

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and you're actually going at about 110 or something.

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It can be pretty drastic.

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So just be careful with that.

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I'm not trying to do the big sale on my one

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but my one works and if you do decide to go for a different one

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I'd do a little bit of checking-up to make sure

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that it's working good and that it's accurate, too.

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So, now we're gonna go to a close-up

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and I'm gonna show you all of the features

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and how to use this thing.

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I hope you enjoy it.

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It's available from the Appstore

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and, as I said, from the Android Store some time very soon.

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OK, here we go for an in-depth look at the Justinguitar Time Trainer Metronome.

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We start, of course, by clicking on that little icon,

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quick splash screen and we're onto the main page

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which has the little swinging metronome head-thing,

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the pendulum, the little bit grill behind will light up with the beat.

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Next line down we've got the tempo which is in beats per minute.

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The minus button, of course, will slow the tempo

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and the plus button will increase the tempo.

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Something slightly...there's obviously...

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just pressing and holding will move in increments of ten

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from whatever you want.

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So it can be usefull if you're trying to change tempo quickly.

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We've got a mute button.

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Pretty obvious, it's gonna make the metronome silent when you hit that.

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And underneath here we've got a volume control

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which is a volume slider.

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It's also controllable by using the plus and minus volume buttons

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on the actual iPod itself - or iPhone or whatever it is that you're using.

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We're gonna leave the Trainer just for a second.

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We've got over here a tap tempo.

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Very, very useful when you're trying to figure out the speed of a song.

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If you literally just start tapping that:

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Each time you tap, it's gonna be doing an average of the taps that you've done.

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So we've just covered that one with 97

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if we hit play it should be more or less the same tempo

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which is a really great feature when you're trying to work out stuff

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you know, trying to work out a tune or whatever.

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It's a really important feature.

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Underneath that we've got the accent.

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So, accent is controling a louder or slightly different note

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to let you know where you are in the bar.

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So, in normal playing you're gonna be in 4/4

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which is gonna give you an accent on beat 1 -

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2,3,4, 1,2,3,4...

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You can hear, it's just a slightly different note.

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Now, if you are playing in 5/4, you just hit that once to make the accent 5.

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Anything to do with 3, you'd move it down-

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sorry, I'm having trouble touching the right thing

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'cause I'm looking at it from kinda behind

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but anyway, there we go - so if we've got it on 3:

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1,2,3...

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We've got a little waltz thing going on, right?

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So, that's the accent control.

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Now all of this is changeable in the settings.

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So if you click the little top icon there

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you've got a range of different sounds,

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the default sound we were just listening to,

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MPC, cowbell, more cowbell and wood.

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And you can also independently control the volume of the beat

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and the volume of the accent.

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So, that's a really useful thing to be able to do as well.

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Now, the big thing with this is the "Time Trainer", it's the training modes.

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If we hit the "training mode" we get a little training mode menu options.

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So, we've got "trainer off", of course

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and we've got "Bar Breaks", "Random Beat Drop" and the "Speed-Upper".

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So we're gonna start with "Bar Breaks"

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which is probably the most useful, I think,

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of the three that I'm using a lot still

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and have been using for many years just in another way, using ProTools.

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We hit the "edit" button and we have the kind of most important settings

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that you can use for these "Bar Breaks".

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The first thing is "bars solid at start".

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Now, whenever you're gonna be making the metronome silent for a while

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or you're having a bar break,

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you really wanna make sure, at the beginning of the exercise

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that you got a good number of bars to get yourself in the groove properly

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and that you're feeling the tempo well.

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So at least four bars I would suggest as a "bars solid at start"-setting.

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We've got "random mute off" for the trainer,

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I'll explain that in a second.

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then we've got "bars solid" and "bars muted".

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Now, this is a good default setting for you if you're starting off with this.

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It's gonna be playing the metronome as normal for three bars

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and then it's going to mute the metronome for one bar

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and come back in again for three bars solid, then muted for one bar.

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So, it gives you a chance to get in the groove

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and then it's gonna be muted and you've gotta try

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and stay in time so when the metronome comes back in

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you're perfectly synchronised with the click.

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This is a great exercise.

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Really, really solid thing to be doing.

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It'll help your internal time a lot.

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There's also "random bar mute".

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If you select that as being on, you can then select a random bar mute percentage.

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So if you click on that you might have,

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say, 50% which would mean that half of the bars are going to be randomly muted.

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That might mean you get two in a row and then one or three in a row

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and then a couple on and a couple off

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'cause it's random. It's not on/off/on/off.

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But I don't recommend you use that to start off with.

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I think as a good starting setting

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you want the "bars solid" at three, "bars muted" at one

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and the "bars solid at start" set to four.

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You go back from here now.

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When you leave this one to go back to the thing,

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if you've changed anything, you wanna hit the "done" button,

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not the "back" button.

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That's really important, otherwise your settings won't work.

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So, I'm gonna turn the tempo right up here for a second

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just so you can clearly hear what's going on.

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And then we hit play, we'll have four bars solid, then three bars solid

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one bar off, three bars solid, one bar off.

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So here we go,play: 1,2,3,4, 2,2,3,4, 3,2,3,4, 4,2,3 ...

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now here: 1,2,3,4, 2,2,3,4, 3,2,3,4, stop, 2,3,4

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1..., 2..., 3..., stop,2,3,4, 1...

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...and then you're back on again.

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You can see what it's doing then.

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Now at that speed the break wasn't very long

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but you can imagine that at a normal speed or at a lot slower

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that that break is gonna feel a lot longer than that and especially...

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One bar, you shouldn't have too many problems with, two bars is a little bit more tricky,

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as soon as you get above four bars, it can be quite difficult.

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So I'm hoping that you'll enjoy that kinda challenge when you get to that.

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So that's the first of the training modes.

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The second one: "Random Beat Drop".

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A lotta guitar players really struggle when the metronome click's not there.

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They got really used to it.

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When really the metronome should be guiding you on your tempo

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you shouldn't be kinda chasing it or waiting for it, you know?

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So what you should...the idea with this one is that

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a certain percentage of the beats, they're gonna just completely disappear.

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So this is a kinda of a good starting setting.

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So we've got a gradual interval of five minutes

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and gradual is turned on, of course.

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So over the course of five minutes it's gonna start with 100% on

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and then gradually up to 30% of the beats are gonna disappear.

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Now, just for the point of this little demo here, I'm gonna select it as being one minute.

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and I'm gonna turn the beats muted up to 90%

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just so you can really hear what's going on here.

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If we go back and "done", 'cause we've changed stuff and then hit play:

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1,2,3,4 ...,2,3,4 ....,2,3,4

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So, a lot of them are there to start off with

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but over the course of one minute, more and more of them are disappearing

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and the idea would be that you keep playing your scale through this

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and keep managing 'cause when those clicks do happen

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you should be perfectly synchronised with them.

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It's a really, really great fun exercise.

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Cause especially in this 90%-kinda target area it does get pretty difficult, you know?

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But that's the whole point.

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If it would be easy, it wouldn't be a very good game, would it?

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So, that's the "Random Beat Drop" training tool.

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And this last one: The "Speed-Upper".

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Now, this one's pretty obvious.

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We got a start tempo, an end tempo and the practice duration.

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So, most times you gonna be practicing five minutes.

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Again I'm gonna just drop it down to one minute now

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just to show you the exercise.

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And usually, if I was practicing for five minutes, 60 to 90 might be a reasonable kind of a jump to make.

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If you're right at the top of your performance level

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it might be 80 to 90 or whatever, you know?

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I'm gonna make it a bit more extreme again

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just for this demo here.

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Let's all make it up to 140, let's say,

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over one minute. So we've selected that. "Done".

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So we're gonna start at 60, end up at 140, over a minute.

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which is, like I said, rather extreme.

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You'll see, when I hit play now, the tempo is gonna go down . We've lost our plus and minus buttons

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because we're in this "Speed-Upper" training mode.

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We hit play, started at 60.

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Now, it's not going up every bar, it's going up mathematically

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over the time period that you set which in this case was a minute.

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You can see, it's already picking up because we've gotta get all of the way up to 140

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or whatever it was that I set and you get the idea.

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This is really great for working on your scales or arpeggios or anything really

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that you've gotta try and get faster and faster.

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I wouldn't recommend doing it this extreme.

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That's kinda bad really to be honest.

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You're much more likely to be going from, you know,

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100 to 110 or something along those kinda lines

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but you get the idea anyway.

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It's a very, very useful little training tool.

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And of course, if you hit the iButton down in the bottom corner there

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you have the full instructions.

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All of the stuff that I'm just have been going through with you there.

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Now, how to make the most of each one of those different training tools

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and a bit about playing with the metronome.

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How it's best to do that and some links to the forum and other kinda useful things like that.

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So, all of the info is built into the app.

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Well, I hope you enjoyed having a look at that.

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Remember there's plenty much more information and support at justinguitar.com.

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You'll find the applications in the products area - the online store.

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So, I'll see you for a lesson or something like that very soon.

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Take care of yourselves, bye-bye.