This screen is designed to help you sight-read different rhythms, and tap them out, and to understand rhythmic patterns in different time signatures.
If you reached this from the top MENU, you should see a bar of music with a simple, randomly generated rhythmic pattern. Practice tapping out the rhythm on a table. If you want to keep in time with a metronome, click the pink Start Metronome button. The first beat of each bar is accented. You can speed up the tempo from slow (the default) to moderate or fast, by selecting an option in the tempo panel. The actual musical tempo in crotchet beats per minute will be displayed on the screen.
If you reached this screen from the Learning Guide, the level of difficulty will be pre-set according to your exam body and grade. Roughly, grade 1 = Easy, grade 2 = Fairly Easy, and so on.
When you are ready to check your accuracy, click the green Listen button to hear the computer play the correct rhythm, as a scale on the piano.. You can switch the metronome on by ticking the box labeled Metronome on while listening. You can ask for a one bar metronome lead-in by ticking tthe box One bar of metronome lead-in.
To try a new pattern, click on the blue Next Rhythm button. Each new rhythm will have a different, randomly selected time signature.
On the bottom-left corner, there are four options for the level of difficulty.