Rimshot
Rimshot for
Marching band.
A field show lives on its tempo changes: an opener at 176, a ballad at 72, a mixed-meter push into the closer. Build every movement in Rimshot and rehearse the transitions until they're automatic.
Try a gap click
2 bars of 4/4 at 176, 2 bars with the click silenced, 2 more at 176, then 2 bars of the ballad at 72.
Build the whole show
Make a group for each stretch at one tempo and time signature, letter the sections to match your rehearsal letters, and press play. Rimshot runs the show from the first count to the last, so the drop from 176 to 72 lands where it's written, not where someone remembers it.
- Tempo rampsAccelerando or ritardando
- Mixed meterChange it every bar
- SubdivisionsEighths or triplets per group
- Section lettersA to Z
Take the click away
Silence any beat in a group, or every beat for a few measures, and find out whether the line holds the tempo on its own. Click only on 2 and 4, or play two bars on and two bars off like the demo above.
Loop the transition
Start a loop at any measure or rehearsal letter and end it wherever you want. Rimshot counts off two measures between passes, so you can run the push into the closer twenty times in a row without touching your phone.
Clean when the band is watching
A section leader gets judged on whether the whole section lands the change together. Loop the drop from 176 to 72 at home until it's automatic, and rehearsal time goes to cleaning the transition instead of learning it.
Send it to the section
Section leaders and staff can send a show as a link or QR code. Anyone can hear it play right in their browser, then open it in Rimshot and practice to the same tempos at home, on iPhone or Android. With Background Playback on, it keeps clicking through headphones with the screen locked.