r/Percussionists

Hello everyone,

A little over a year ago, I created two metronomes that I personally really like.

I use them almost every day in my own practice, and I find them cool, and genuinely useful.

But it seems like almost nobody else is using them, so I’m probably missing something.

Here are them:

https://youcoolele.com/en/120/great-simple-metronome

https://youcoolele.com/en/121/accelo-metronome <- accelerating one, I use it to work my speed

I've tried to add many useful stuff.

But apparently, that’s still not enough to make people want to use it.

So I’d love some honest feedback:

Why wouldn’t you use this metronome?

What feels wrong, unclear, annoying, unnecessary, or missing?

How could it be improved?

Absolutely any answer would help me.

Thanks a lot!

It wasn’t really part of mine, but I was reflecting that everyone has to play attached BD and cymbals sooner or later in their career. For me most recently it was an opera.

Not that hard to do consistently but difficult to not sacrifice sound quality imo

I'm playing percussion in Shrek and although I've been playing percussion for decades I've always shied away from drums and Shrek has a good deal of hand drumming. I've played basic conga and bongo rhythms, but djembe and dumbeck is where I'm getting stumped. I've tried to look up how to read djembe music, but I can't find anything that explains it on a multi-lined staff. I think I understand the different hits (bass, tone, and slap) and that you rest when it's just a note stem, but the music will have 3+ different notes plus slaps and I'm confused to what note translates to each type of hit and where I would hit on the drum. Can anyone help explain this to me or make a staff key? Thank you!

*this is for a community theatre and I will be using whatever instruments the high school has. I don't know if they have a djembe or dumbeck and might end up playing on a conga or something.