WEBVTT 00:00:05.060 --> 00:00:06.988 Hi, how're you doing? Justin here. 00:00:06.988 --> 00:00:09.885 In this video today we're gonna be checking out my new app 00:00:09.885 --> 00:00:13.271 which is the Justinguitar Time Trainer Metronome. 00:00:13.271 --> 00:00:15.860 It is a metronome - but it's got a whole heap more to it. 00:00:15.860 --> 00:00:18.837 It's got three training tools which are gonna really help you develop 00:00:18.837 --> 00:00:21.610 your own internal sense of time. 00:00:21.610 --> 00:00:23.626 Now I'm gonna give you the quick spill about them now 00:00:23.626 --> 00:00:26.609 for those who don't wanna sit through the whole ten minute explanation. 00:00:26.609 --> 00:00:29.374 There's three training modes. 00:00:29.374 --> 00:00:31.542 The first one is called "Bar Breaks" 00:00:31.542 --> 00:00:34.974 which basically stops the beat for a bar or more 00:00:34.974 --> 00:00:38.349 which is a great rhythm guitar development tool. 00:00:38.349 --> 00:00:40.640 So you'll be playing along for three bars with the click 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:42.408 and then it's gonna stop for a bar, 00:00:42.408 --> 00:00:45.657 you have to keep time and then be playing perfectly in sync 00:00:45.657 --> 00:00:48.284 when the beat starts again. 00:00:48.284 --> 00:00:51.755 For one bar it's not too bad but two, three, four bars is getting harder, 00:00:51.755 --> 00:00:53.920 up to eight bars, that's gonna be a real tough one. 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:55.433 Mainly I use it for rhythm guitar 00:00:55.433 --> 00:00:59.254 but you can use it for scales or to improv or solo guitar - whatever. 00:00:59.254 --> 00:01:03.345 It's a really good one for developing that kind of your own internal sense of time 00:01:03.345 --> 00:01:05.969 which is a really, really important thing to develop. 00:01:05.969 --> 00:01:09.120 Second training tool is the "Random Beat Drop". 00:01:09.120 --> 00:01:11.414 A lot of guys get, when they're playing with the metronome a lot, 00:01:11.414 --> 00:01:14.131 really rely on that click to be playing in time. 00:01:14.131 --> 00:01:19.768 So what this one does is gradually and slowly and randomly start muting the metronome clicks. 00:01:19.768 --> 00:01:23.053 And you'll find it when you're practicing along with it, 00:01:23.053 --> 00:01:25.873 you gradually get used to the metronome not being there. 00:01:25.873 --> 00:01:28.791 It's kind of removing the safety blanket slowly. 00:01:28.791 --> 00:01:31.370 Great one for doing with your scales as well. 00:01:31.370 --> 00:01:34.289 So, you know, you should be practicing with a normal metronome, too, on my app. 00:01:34.289 --> 00:01:35.919 That is really important. 00:01:35.919 --> 00:01:37.858 We've got one of those built into this of course but 00:01:37.858 --> 00:01:40.356 the "Random Beat Drops" are really a good kind of, 00:01:40.356 --> 00:01:44.613 you know, it gets you out of just really religiously always playing with the metronome, you know, 00:01:44.613 --> 00:01:47.003 - which is a very important skill. 00:01:47.003 --> 00:01:49.585 And the third one, which is one that I've wanted in a metronome for years and years, 00:01:49.585 --> 00:01:54.085 I've called it the "Speed-Upper" which basically is: 00:01:54.085 --> 00:01:56.529 start tempo and end tempo and a duration 00:01:56.529 --> 00:02:00.083 and it's gonna gradually speed up from one tempo to the next tempo 00:02:00.083 --> 00:02:03.293 over the course of that five minutes or whatever. 00:02:03.293 --> 00:02:04.950 You can go from 80 to 100 or whatever 00:02:04.950 --> 00:02:09.684 which is a really, really, super-dooper useful thing for your practice time. 00:02:09.684 --> 00:02:12.582 You know, I'm using it everyday for my own practice as well. 00:02:12.582 --> 00:02:13.836 It's a great thing. 00:02:13.836 --> 00:02:16.681 Of course, it is a full-featured metronome as well. 00:02:16.681 --> 00:02:19.840 We have accents, a few different sounds, tap tempo 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:22.527 and our audio engine is extremely accurate. 00:02:22.527 --> 00:02:25.683 Most of the apps that I've seen around are not very accurate at all. 00:02:25.683 --> 00:02:28.162 In fact, some of them shouldn't really be even for sale, I think, 00:02:28.162 --> 00:02:30.645 'cause they're probably damaging more than help you by playing along with them. 00:02:30.645 --> 00:02:32.769 The beats were all over the place 00:02:32.769 --> 00:02:35.999 and some of the tempos were completely mislabeled as well. 00:02:35.999 --> 00:02:37.483 So you think that you're going along with 140 00:02:37.483 --> 00:02:39.452 and you're actually going at about 110 or something. 00:02:39.452 --> 00:02:41.152 It can be pretty drastic. 00:02:41.152 --> 00:02:42.696 So just be careful with that. 00:02:42.696 --> 00:02:44.683 I'm not trying to do the big sale on my one 00:02:44.683 --> 00:02:47.456 but my one works and if you do decide to go for a different one 00:02:47.456 --> 00:02:48.971 I'd do a little bit of checking-up to make sure 00:02:48.971 --> 00:02:51.754 that it's working good and that it's accurate, too. 00:02:51.754 --> 00:02:54.006 So, now we're gonna go to a close-up 00:02:54.006 --> 00:02:55.592 and I'm gonna show you all of the features 00:02:55.592 --> 00:02:56.916 and how to use this thing. 00:02:56.916 --> 00:02:57.883 I hope you enjoy it. 00:02:57.883 --> 00:02:59.335 It's available from the Appstore 00:02:59.335 --> 00:03:02.363 and, as I said, from the Android Store some time very soon. 00:03:03.163 --> 00:03:07.628 OK, here we go for an in-depth look at the Justinguitar Time Trainer Metronome. 00:03:07.628 --> 00:03:10.856 We start, of course, by clicking on that little icon, 00:03:10.856 --> 00:03:13.309 quick splash screen and we're onto the main page 00:03:13.309 --> 00:03:16.654 which has the little swinging metronome head-thing, 00:03:16.654 --> 00:03:20.327 the pendulum, the little bit grill behind will light up with the beat. 00:03:20.327 --> 00:03:24.151 Next line down we've got the tempo which is in beats per minute. 00:03:24.151 --> 00:03:26.795 The minus button, of course, will slow the tempo 00:03:26.795 --> 00:03:29.399 and the plus button will increase the tempo. 00:03:29.399 --> 00:03:31.723 Something slightly...there's obviously... 00:03:31.723 --> 00:03:35.344 just pressing and holding will move in increments of ten 00:03:35.344 --> 00:03:36.378 from whatever you want. 00:03:36.378 --> 00:03:39.141 So it can be usefull if you're trying to change tempo quickly. 00:03:39.141 --> 00:03:40.712 We've got a mute button. 00:03:40.712 --> 00:03:44.159 Pretty obvious, it's gonna make the metronome silent when you hit that. 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:46.650 And underneath here we've got a volume control 00:03:46.650 --> 00:03:47.963 which is a volume slider. 00:03:47.963 --> 00:03:53.679 It's also controllable by using the plus and minus volume buttons 00:03:53.679 --> 00:03:57.787 on the actual iPod itself - or iPhone or whatever it is that you're using. 00:03:57.787 --> 00:04:01.162 We're gonna leave the Trainer just for a second. 00:04:01.162 --> 00:04:03.309 We've got over here a tap tempo. 00:04:03.309 --> 00:04:06.456 Very, very useful when you're trying to figure out the speed of a song. 00:04:06.456 --> 00:04:08.476 If you literally just start tapping that: 00:04:08.476 --> 00:04:12.878 Each time you tap, it's gonna be doing an average of the taps that you've done. 00:04:12.878 --> 00:04:15.545 So we've just covered that one with 97 00:04:15.545 --> 00:04:18.833 if we hit play it should be more or less the same tempo 00:04:18.833 --> 00:04:22.212 which is a really great feature when you're trying to work out stuff 00:04:22.212 --> 00:04:24.730 you know, trying to work out a tune or whatever. 00:04:24.730 --> 00:04:26.619 It's a really important feature. 00:04:26.619 --> 00:04:28.651 Underneath that we've got the accent. 00:04:28.651 --> 00:04:32.662 So, accent is controling a louder or slightly different note 00:04:32.662 --> 00:04:34.629 to let you know where you are in the bar. 00:04:34.629 --> 00:04:37.685 So, in normal playing you're gonna be in 4/4 00:04:37.685 --> 00:04:40.030 which is gonna give you an accent on beat 1 - 00:04:40.030 --> 00:04:44.679 2,3,4, 1,2,3,4... 00:04:44.679 --> 00:04:47.140 You can hear, it's just a slightly different note. 00:04:47.140 --> 00:04:52.143 Now, if you are playing in 5/4, you just hit that once to make the accent 5. 00:04:52.143 --> 00:04:54.508 Anything to do with 3, you'd move it down- 00:04:54.508 --> 00:04:57.598 sorry, I'm having trouble touching the right thing 00:04:57.598 --> 00:04:59.493 'cause I'm looking at it from kinda behind 00:05:00.674 --> 00:05:01.854 but anyway, there we go - so if we've got it on 3: 00:05:02.577 --> 00:05:04.173 1,2,3... 00:05:04.173 --> 00:05:06.051 We've got a little waltz thing going on, right? 00:05:06.051 --> 00:05:08.767 So, that's the accent control. 00:05:08.767 --> 00:05:11.427 Now all of this is changeable in the settings. 00:05:11.427 --> 00:05:13.274 So if you click the little top icon there 00:05:13.274 --> 00:05:14.886 you've got a range of different sounds, 00:05:14.886 --> 00:05:16.842 the default sound we were just listening to, 00:05:16.842 --> 00:05:19.502 MPC, cowbell, more cowbell and wood. 00:05:19.502 --> 00:05:22.820 And you can also independently control the volume of the beat 00:05:22.820 --> 00:05:24.823 and the volume of the accent. 00:05:24.823 --> 00:05:28.361 So, that's a really useful thing to be able to do as well. 00:05:28.361 --> 00:05:32.202 Now, the big thing with this is the "Time Trainer", it's the training modes. 00:05:32.202 --> 00:05:36.676 If we hit the "training mode" we get a little training mode menu options. 00:05:36.676 --> 00:05:39.062 So, we've got "trainer off", of course 00:05:39.062 --> 00:05:43.255 and we've got "Bar Breaks", "Random Beat Drop" and the "Speed-Upper". 00:05:43.255 --> 00:05:44.620 So we're gonna start with "Bar Breaks" 00:05:44.620 --> 00:05:47.112 which is probably the most useful, I think, 00:05:47.112 --> 00:05:49.266 of the three that I'm using a lot still 00:05:49.266 --> 00:05:53.957 and have been using for many years just in another way, using ProTools. 00:05:53.957 --> 00:05:58.404 We hit the "edit" button and we have the kind of most important settings 00:05:58.404 --> 00:06:00.261 that you can use for these "Bar Breaks". 00:06:00.261 --> 00:06:03.287 The first thing is "bars solid at start". 00:06:03.287 --> 00:06:06.369 Now, whenever you're gonna be making the metronome silent for a while 00:06:06.369 --> 00:06:07.803 or you're having a bar break, 00:06:07.803 --> 00:06:10.121 you really wanna make sure, at the beginning of the exercise 00:06:10.121 --> 00:06:12.656 that you got a good number of bars to get yourself in the groove properly 00:06:12.656 --> 00:06:14.585 and that you're feeling the tempo well. 00:06:14.585 --> 00:06:19.630 So at least four bars I would suggest as a "bars solid at start"-setting. 00:06:19.630 --> 00:06:22.853 We've got "random mute off" for the trainer, 00:06:22.853 --> 00:06:24.602 I'll explain that in a second. 00:06:24.602 --> 00:06:27.051 then we've got "bars solid" and "bars muted". 00:06:27.051 --> 00:06:30.371 Now, this is a good default setting for you if you're starting off with this. 00:06:30.371 --> 00:06:33.071 It's gonna be playing the metronome as normal for three bars 00:06:33.071 --> 00:06:36.157 and then it's going to mute the metronome for one bar 00:06:36.157 --> 00:06:39.918 and come back in again for three bars solid, then muted for one bar. 00:06:39.918 --> 00:06:41.820 So, it gives you a chance to get in the groove 00:06:41.820 --> 00:06:43.925 and then it's gonna be muted and you've gotta try 00:06:43.925 --> 00:06:45.965 and stay in time so when the metronome comes back in 00:06:45.965 --> 00:06:48.466 you're perfectly synchronised with the click. 00:06:48.466 --> 00:06:49.843 This is a great exercise. 00:06:49.843 --> 00:06:52.603 Really, really solid thing to be doing. 00:06:52.603 --> 00:06:54.635 It'll help your internal time a lot. 00:06:54.635 --> 00:06:56.998 There's also "random bar mute". 00:06:56.998 --> 00:07:01.836 If you select that as being on, you can then select a random bar mute percentage. 00:07:01.836 --> 00:07:03.681 So if you click on that you might have, 00:07:03.681 --> 00:07:08.139 say, 50% which would mean that half of the bars are going to be randomly muted. 00:07:08.139 --> 00:07:10.592 That might mean you get two in a row and then one or three in a row 00:07:10.592 --> 00:07:13.478 and then a couple on and a couple off 00:07:13.478 --> 00:07:16.547 'cause it's random. It's not on/off/on/off. 00:07:16.547 --> 00:07:18.723 But I don't recommend you use that to start off with. 00:07:18.723 --> 00:07:20.461 I think as a good starting setting 00:07:20.461 --> 00:07:23.642 you want the "bars solid" at three, "bars muted" at one 00:07:23.642 --> 00:07:26.225 and the "bars solid at start" set to four. 00:07:26.225 --> 00:07:28.553 You go back from here now. 00:07:28.553 --> 00:07:30.830 When you leave this one to go back to the thing, 00:07:30.830 --> 00:07:32.863 if you've changed anything, you wanna hit the "done" button, 00:07:32.863 --> 00:07:33.941 not the "back" button. 00:07:33.941 --> 00:07:36.189 That's really important, otherwise your settings won't work. 00:07:36.189 --> 00:07:39.892 So, I'm gonna turn the tempo right up here for a second 00:07:39.892 --> 00:07:42.122 just so you can clearly hear what's going on. 00:07:42.122 --> 00:07:46.046 And then we hit play, we'll have four bars solid, then three bars solid 00:07:46.046 --> 00:07:47.838 one bar off, three bars solid, one bar off. 00:07:47.838 --> 00:07:54.078 So here we go,play: 1,2,3,4, 2,2,3,4, 3,2,3,4, 4,2,3 ... 00:07:54.078 --> 00:08:00.002 now here: 1,2,3,4, 2,2,3,4, 3,2,3,4, stop, 2,3,4 00:08:00.002 --> 00:08:06.003 1..., 2..., 3..., stop,2,3,4, 1... 00:08:06.003 --> 00:08:07.889 ...and then you're back on again. 00:08:07.889 --> 00:08:08.906 You can see what it's doing then. 00:08:08.906 --> 00:08:10.533 Now at that speed the break wasn't very long 00:08:10.533 --> 00:08:13.638 but you can imagine that at a normal speed or at a lot slower 00:08:13.638 --> 00:08:16.532 that that break is gonna feel a lot longer than that and especially... 00:08:16.532 --> 00:08:20.500 One bar, you shouldn't have too many problems with, two bars is a little bit more tricky, 00:08:20.500 --> 00:08:23.510 as soon as you get above four bars, it can be quite difficult. 00:08:23.510 --> 00:08:27.082 So I'm hoping that you'll enjoy that kinda challenge when you get to that. 00:08:27.082 --> 00:08:29.507 So that's the first of the training modes. 00:08:29.507 --> 00:08:33.179 The second one: "Random Beat Drop". 00:08:33.179 --> 00:08:36.567 A lotta guitar players really struggle when the metronome click's not there. 00:08:36.567 --> 00:08:37.887 They got really used to it. 00:08:37.887 --> 00:08:40.367 When really the metronome should be guiding you on your tempo 00:08:40.367 --> 00:08:42.769 you shouldn't be kinda chasing it or waiting for it, you know? 00:08:42.769 --> 00:08:46.239 So what you should...the idea with this one is that 00:08:46.239 --> 00:08:50.855 a certain percentage of the beats, they're gonna just completely disappear. 00:08:50.855 --> 00:08:54.105 So this is a kinda of a good starting setting. 00:08:54.105 --> 00:08:57.039 So we've got a gradual interval of five minutes 00:08:57.039 --> 00:08:58.966 and gradual is turned on, of course. 00:08:58.966 --> 00:09:02.489 So over the course of five minutes it's gonna start with 100% on 00:09:02.489 --> 00:09:06.551 and then gradually up to 30% of the beats are gonna disappear. 00:09:06.551 --> 00:09:11.172 Now, just for the point of this little demo here, I'm gonna select it as being one minute. 00:09:11.172 --> 00:09:14.938 and I'm gonna turn the beats muted up to 90% 00:09:14.938 --> 00:09:17.125 just so you can really hear what's going on here. 00:09:17.125 --> 00:09:23.454 If we go back and "done", 'cause we've changed stuff and then hit play: 00:09:23.454 --> 00:09:28.732 1,2,3,4 ...,2,3,4 ....,2,3,4 00:09:28.732 --> 00:09:30.177 So, a lot of them are there to start off with 00:09:30.177 --> 00:09:33.918 but over the course of one minute, more and more of them are disappearing 00:09:33.918 --> 00:09:38.662 and the idea would be that you keep playing your scale through this 00:09:39.262 --> 00:09:41.788 and keep managing 'cause when those clicks do happen 00:09:41.788 --> 00:09:44.296 you should be perfectly synchronised with them. 00:09:44.296 --> 00:09:46.332 It's a really, really great fun exercise. 00:09:46.332 --> 00:09:51.602 Cause especially in this 90%-kinda target area it does get pretty difficult, you know? 00:09:51.602 --> 00:09:53.723 But that's the whole point. 00:09:53.723 --> 00:09:55.368 If it would be easy, it wouldn't be a very good game, would it? 00:09:55.368 --> 00:10:02.807 So, that's the "Random Beat Drop" training tool. 00:10:02.807 --> 00:10:04.688 And this last one: The "Speed-Upper". 00:10:04.688 --> 00:10:07.009 Now, this one's pretty obvious. 00:10:07.009 --> 00:10:10.663 We got a start tempo, an end tempo and the practice duration. 00:10:10.663 --> 00:10:13.099 So, most times you gonna be practicing five minutes. 00:10:13.099 --> 00:10:15.705 Again I'm gonna just drop it down to one minute now 00:10:15.705 --> 00:10:17.379 just to show you the exercise. 00:10:17.379 --> 00:10:23.459 And usually, if I was practicing for five minutes, 60 to 90 might be a reasonable kind of a jump to make. 00:10:23.460 --> 00:10:25.966 If you're right at the top of your performance level 00:10:25.966 --> 00:10:29.010 it might be 80 to 90 or whatever, you know? 00:10:29.010 --> 00:10:31.390 I'm gonna make it a bit more extreme again 00:10:31.390 --> 00:10:33.882 just for this demo here. 00:10:33.882 --> 00:10:37.739 Let's all make it up to 140, let's say, 00:10:37.739 --> 00:10:41.114 over one minute. So we've selected that. "Done". 00:10:41.114 --> 00:10:45.323 So we're gonna start at 60, end up at 140, over a minute. 00:10:45.323 --> 00:10:47.724 which is, like I said, rather extreme. 00:10:47.724 --> 00:10:51.241 You'll see, when I hit play now, the tempo is gonna go down . We've lost our plus and minus buttons 00:10:51.241 --> 00:10:54.331 because we're in this "Speed-Upper" training mode. 00:10:54.331 --> 00:10:57.506 We hit play, started at 60. 00:10:57.506 --> 00:11:00.132 Now, it's not going up every bar, it's going up mathematically 00:11:00.132 --> 00:11:03.212 over the time period that you set which in this case was a minute. 00:11:03.212 --> 00:11:07.939 You can see, it's already picking up because we've gotta get all of the way up to 140 00:11:07.939 --> 00:11:11.200 or whatever it was that I set and you get the idea. 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:14.786 This is really great for working on your scales or arpeggios or anything really 00:11:14.786 --> 00:11:17.485 that you've gotta try and get faster and faster. 00:11:17.485 --> 00:11:19.647 I wouldn't recommend doing it this extreme. 00:11:19.647 --> 00:11:21.722 That's kinda bad really to be honest. 00:11:21.722 --> 00:11:24.332 You're much more likely to be going from, you know, 00:11:24.332 --> 00:11:27.047 100 to 110 or something along those kinda lines 00:11:27.047 --> 00:11:29.473 but you get the idea anyway. 00:11:29.473 --> 00:11:33.137 It's a very, very useful little training tool. 00:11:33.137 --> 00:11:36.990 And of course, if you hit the iButton down in the bottom corner there 00:11:36.990 --> 00:11:39.085 you have the full instructions. 00:11:39.085 --> 00:11:40.912 All of the stuff that I'm just have been going through with you there. 00:11:40.912 --> 00:11:46.003 Now, how to make the most of each one of those different training tools 00:11:46.003 --> 00:11:48.158 and a bit about playing with the metronome. 00:11:48.158 --> 00:11:53.811 How it's best to do that and some links to the forum and other kinda useful things like that. 00:11:53.811 --> 00:11:57.633 So, all of the info is built into the app. 00:11:57.633 --> 00:11:59.419 Well, I hope you enjoyed having a look at that. 00:11:59.419 --> 00:12:04.050 Remember there's plenty much more information and support at justinguitar.com. 00:12:04.050 --> 00:12:08.612 You'll find the applications in the products area - the online store. 00:12:08.612 --> 00:12:12.687 So, I'll see you for a lesson or something like that very soon. 00:12:12.687 --> 00:12:14.285 Take care of yourselves, bye-bye.