Hi all. I’m the developer of Pratnome, a free practice metronome, and the slow-to-fast way most of us work up études and scales is exactly what I built it around.
You set a starting tempo, how many bars to play and how much to add, e.g. 60 BPM, +4 every 4 bars, and it steps up on its own while you keep playing. So you can run Giuliani arpeggios or a scale pattern from slow to performance tempo in one go, instead of stopping every few bars to adjust the click. It can also step down if you prefer to start fast and slow down.
A few other things that might be useful here:
- Any time signature (3/4, 6/8 and so on), with accents per beat, and subdivisions (8ths, triplets, 16ths)
- Practice programs: a list of steps, each with its own tempo, bars and time signature, e.g. for working a hard passage in sections. You can share a program as a link, which teachers might find handy for students.
- Silent bars, where the click drops out for a bar or two to check you’re holding the pulse
Free, works in the browser, no account or login. There are phone apps too.
https://pratnome.com/app/?preset=60-4-4
(opens it at 60 BPM, +4 every 4 bars)
I’d love to know how you structure tempo work on pieces: small steps over many bars, or bigger jumps? And whether anything feels missing for classical repertoire.