May
13
Heart Monitor Metronome
I had a funny idea today to use my heart as a metronome. It's obviously not a rock-solid tempo, but it would be an interesting exercise in bodily awareness while playing. The concept seems simple enough. I just need a heart monitor that beeps like those hospital machines, but it seems everything available just displays the heart rate without indication of every beat. No reports of musical applications appear on Google either. I sense another nerd project in my future.
jason (16 May 2008 at 9:25am)
Problem solved...
Buy one of those heart rate monitors from any Sporting Goods store. The kind that you strap the sensor around your chest and read out your stats on the supplied watch while you work out.
I had an early lesson one Saturday, so I decided to teach and then go work out. I taught in my workout clothes with the heart rate monitor on (I thought I would measure how many calories I burned during a 30 minute lesson). As soon as I fired up the amp, there was my beat (tink, tink, tink, tink).
It comes through loud and clear.
Joe (16 May 2008 at 10:08am)
Ha! That's awesome, thanks.