Óscar Herrero launches
the software version of ‘Flamenco Metronome’
The guitar maestro now offers the tool in a USB memory
key
Flamenco-world.com, March 2010
New technologies
are also changing how flamenco is learned. Óscar
Herrero, an expert on study methods for guitar,
now launches the software version of his successful ‘Flamenco
Metronome’. The program is inserted in a USB memory
key, which is accompanied by an installation CD. The tool
is thus ready to be used on any type of computer, with manuals
in Spanish and English. Programmed by Óscar Herrero
and by percussionist Guillermo
McGill, it’s conceived for the study of baile,
guitar, cante and percussion in any flamenco style, and
also to assist professionals at the recording studio and
in composing.
Three years after creating
the ‘Flamenco Metronome’ as a machine, maestro
Óscar
Herrero once again innovates. He now launches on the
market the tool’s software version, presented in a
memory key plus an installation CD. It’s intended
to be exclusively used on PCs or Mac computers by students
of baile, guitar, cante and percussion, with the aim of
understanding the different variants of flamenco compás
and putting them into practice. And it also adjusts to the
requirements of flamenco professionals, both at the recording
studio, and in the process of composing music.
Once installed on the computer,
the user will have the metronome and digital chromatic tuner
on screen with every flamenco style programmed. The manuals
in Spanish and English indicate the instructions for students
or professionals to be able to program, compose new rhythms,
practice and send data to the metronome. In total, it offers
149 different rhythmic formulas, the real sounds of sixteen
percussion instruments (clapping, box drum, heel-tapping,
darbuka, djembe…) and 8 tracks to compose formulas
and songs of their own.
Standing out among its functions
is the option to work with times from 1 to 12, stereo sound
to mix the instruments, speed/tempo from 20 to 400 BPM (beats
per minute) on screen and progressive acceleration or deceleration.
Moreover, it presents twelve light indicators marking the
beats in red, allows mixing the sound of a conventional
metronome and also to mute instruments in the programming
in order to play on the rhythm base.
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