Getting more out of StickTempo
Everything here is already built — these are just the parts that are easy to walk past. One of them shows up as a tip on the home page each day; this is the whole list.
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The tempo ladder can raise the tempo for you — it steps up when you rate a run clean, and eases off when you don't.
How the ladder decides -
Stone's own instruction is to play each line twenty times without stopping. The default rep count here is set to match it.
Why twenty -
Starting too fast is the most common way to waste a practice session. There is a tempo where you can play it clean — begin there.
Picking a starting tempo -
Your practice history is kept on this device: weeks on target, days in a row, and a calendar of the last eight weeks.
See your practice -
There are four click sounds — the default, a woodblock, a stick on rim, and a softer one for practising late.
Change the click -
The click volume goes above 100%. On a phone speaker next to a practice pad, you will probably want it there.
Turn it up -
Dark mode follows your system by default, and you can pin it either way.
Appearance -
Each exercise has two stages: every note clicked, then only the beat. The second is where the sticking becomes yours.
How to practise a page -
There is no account, so nothing syncs between devices — but you can export your progress as a file and load it anywhere.
Back up your progress -
The triplet pages are not just the same stickings faster — the accent lands somewhere different every bar.
Practising the triplets -
Exercise 5 on the first page is the single paradiddle. Several of the patterns you already know by name are in here.
Which ones are rudiments -
Days off are part of practising well. The weekly target here is four days out of seven for exactly that reason.
Your weekly target -
Stone meant the first page to be worked for weeks, not finished in a sitting. There are 24 exercises on it.
Working the first page
Tips can be turned off in Settings, and they stop on their own once you have seen them all.