Humanome vs Wheelhouse Beats

Hey, musician! Having a strong internal clock is important anytime you’re in charge of the beat. Metronomes, with their perfect time, can help build that strength. But you and your bandmates don’t have perfect time. We’re human. We fluctuate. Humanome teaches you to hear an irregular tempo and adjust your playing to it, as you must always do to stay in the pocket with other non-metronomic human beings. Humanome sensitizes you to playing more responsively and accurately – more in the groove – with any external time source, whether it’s precise or not: a metronome, a click, a drummer, a band, a sequence, a track. How it works: Humanome encourages listening. It trains you to react, moment by moment, to a fluctuating external time source. Humanome‘s varying click and limited session time enhances focus and engagement in ways a metronome doesn’t. Humanome stresses the importance of the phrase and allows for odd time signatures. Each Humanome session is randomly generated and unique. A session is around 3 minutes long and has three parts: an initial 2-phrase segment of straight time, followed by the main body of the session’s shifting tempos, followed by a 1-phrase ending segment of straight time. Setting up each session: Speed is the Humanome’s initial tempo, from 1 to 5. Intensity is how frequently the tempo will change. Beats per measure indicates time signature. By default, Humanome accentuates the first beat of each measure. This can be disabled in More Settings. Select INHUMANOME if you want to kick the Humanome into true madness from any Intensity setting. Tempo changes will be much more severe. This gives you four additional intensities. More Settings: Measures per phrase. Much of the world’s music comes in 4 or 8 bar phrases and that is Humanome’s default setting. You can change that here. *2 multiplies each Speed setting by two, from *1 to *5. Remember: It’s not a metronome. It’s a Humanome. GO!

Virtuoso guitarist Charlie Hunter has assembled a world-class set of drummers for you: • JT Bates (Bonny Light Horseman, Anaïs Mitchell, Big Red Machine, Taylor Swift) • Jeremy “Bean” Clemons (Burning Spear, Harry Connick Jr., Mavis Swan Poole) • Corey Fonville (Butcher Brown, Nicholas Payton, Kurt Elling) • Chris Gelb (Megg Farrell, Vince Giordano, Café Society) • Brevan Hampden (Phil Cook, Charlie Hunter, Ani DiFranco, Al Strong, Hiss Golden Messenger) • Terence Higgins (Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Widespread Panic, John Scofield, Allen Toussaint, Ani DiFranco) • Derrek Phillips (Brett Eldredge, LeAnn Rimes, Hank Williams Jr., Charlie Hunter, Mike Farris, Gloria Gaynor) • Bobby Previte (Guggenheim Fellow, Greenfield Prize in Music, NEA Fellow, Creator/Director of The Improvisation Workshop) • Carter McLean (Roy Ayers, Bernie Worrell, Fred Wesley, Victor Wooten, Jamie McLean, Lion King on Broadway) • George Sluppick (Albert King, Charlie Hunter, JJ Grey & Mofro, Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Morgan James, Sha Na Na) Each drummer recorded a special set of beats for Wheelhouse, and played those beats all the way from stone-cold slow to smoking fast. Wheelhouse stitches these together so you can play any tempo in between. As well as this huge range of tempos, most beats have an option of 1, 2, 4, or 8 measure phrases or loops. We've worked hard to make each one of these make musical sense. Like a metronome, Wheelhouse is a great tool for playing time, but even more, it‘s for helping develop your feel. For any kind of instrumentalist — playing with Wheelhouse will help you become a better musician, better listener, and better collaborator. For drummers — take a deep dive into how these pros use subtle sounds and dynamics to elevate a groove. And some of our biggest fans are songwriters, who use it to work out new material. It‘s more fun and more musical! Don‘t miss Brevan‘s Latin section, with four different percussion parts you can mix. And if you need a little inspiration, try rolling the dice for something new. Wheelhouse is independently made — your subscription goes directly to the musicians and keeps the app going. You'll have a ten-day demo from installation, and you can register your email with us for another ten days.