SHREDOMETER!!!!

[LydonB]

So a friend of my former guitar teacher made an invention called a Shredometer. Apparently there are about 6 companies interested in licensing the product, but they want to see that there is sufficient interest in the product.

There is a YouTube video, so go check it out and if you enjoy it, give it a good rating.

 

[JeffTD]

Unless I misunderstand this, it's a metronome with a note-per-second counter?

No offense, but I think this idea is stupid and somewhat annoying - it seems to just promote the theory that 'faster is better' while sounding like a broken Geiger counter.



...and his statement about metronomes not being able to give you an aural representation of notes is wrong - this guy has never seen a Dr. Beat!

 

[AudioPhile777]

I wouldn't buy it... thing is huge... if I'm playing to fast that I can't count the notes... i should be famous enough to pay someone to count them for me.


and since when is it important to know how many notes you're playing per minute/second?

 

[James Murphy]

if you know the tempo you're playing, and you know what rhythmic subdivision you're playing, it's just a simple math equation. e.g., 16ths at 120bpm would be 4x120, so 480 notes-per-minute.

 

[Zack Uidl]

don't see the point...like James said, really easy to do with a metronome.

And AudioPhile777, it is really good for guitar students to know how many npm they can play so they can keep track of progress and see where they need to improve. The students I have that do this improv much faster (from a technical standpoint) than those who do not

 

[AudioPhile777]

And AudioPhile777, it is really good for guitar students to know how many npm they can play so they can keep track of progress and see where they need to improve. The students I have that do this improv much faster (from a technical standpoint) than those who do not

...duly noted.

 

[Damian B]

Yeah, I'm sorry, but just looks like a glorified metronome to me. I mean, maybe if it were really cheap then there might be some interest in it, but considering that it has a powered speaker out, line out, and stuff I'd say it's would probably run around $100 or so. I don't know too many people who would pay that much.

Also, I know it's a prototype, but it's rather big and "clunky" :/

 

[LydonB]

Well, I agree with all of the above ftr. Just trying to help a friend of a friend.

 

[RockGuitarX]

My Shredometer

 

[ParsonsMatt]

So its a drumometer for guitar?

Kind of worthless in my opinion... As has already been stated, if you are playing tight to a beat, its a simple math to figure out how fast you're playing.

 

[DominikJW]

Hmmm.. maybe it'd make more sense if this would be considered as a toy...

 

[The Unavoidable]

If you would look at the second video, you could see what the finished product would look like. Nothing like the prototype.

As for the whole, metronome playing back 17 a second thing, it seems really useless. Sure you could hear how fast it was, but it just gets increasingly harder to keep track of the beat at that speed.

 

[James Murphy]

math people. you should always be aware of what rhythmic figure you are playing, be it whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, 16ths, 8th note triples, 16th note triplets, 32nd notes, and so on, including odd note groupings, etc.... as well as at which meter you are doing so. at that point it's basic multiplication to find your notes-per-minute (rhythm figure/meter x BPM), and then simple division to derive notes-per-second from that (npm ÷ 60). what's the use of just flailing at notes with no idea of the rhythm and meter? once you realize this it's easy to see that, while certainly clever, it's still simply not much more than a novelty item, and definitely not a tool that could/should ever be used for serious practice.

 

[ahjteam]

If you would look at the second video, you could see what the finished product would look like. Nothing like the prototype

A link for the lazy ones:

 

[deanbailey]

I think the idea behind this particular invention is cool but as everyone said here there is another way to solve your own tempo's questions. Same goes for drum rhythms.
However, the invention I assume everyone expected to see would a similar design to the drumometer which counts the notes you play in a certain amount of time, and would be cool if it discounts the dead notes (guitar hero dead notes).

 

[MetalJonesy]

my shredometer, complete with portable child

 

[LydonB]

As soon as I watched the video, all I could think of was the epic Petrucci videos where the dude does the voice overs and claims that Petrucci can play 5 billion notes per second

 

[Metaltastic]

Yup, and using a bee with a bullhorn as his metronome

 

[LydonB]

Yup, and using a bee with a bullhorn as his metronome

 

[-Gavin-]

I can't be the only one that would like to use this during mastubation.... just to see?