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• n  clicking pendulum indicates the exact tempo of a piece of music

• Today, she relates the events of April, 22, 1979, with a strong voice, in a beat as steady as a metronome.
• A ticking metronome was set beside a dog.
• Neuroscientist Alvaro Pascual-Leone instructed the members of one group to play as fluidly as they could, trying to keep to the metronome's 60 beats per minute.

News & Articles

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• NOTEWORTHY DEATHS
  Devo drummer with tempo of metronome Alan Myers, the former longtime drummer for the band Devo, best known for “Whip It,” has died after a battle with brain cancer.
  June 27, 2013 - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
• Former Devo drummer Alan Myers, the human metronome who appeared on the seminal new-wave band's bigg
  Former Devo drummer Alan Myers, the human metronome who appeared on the seminal new-wave band's biggest hit "Whip It," has died from brain-cancer complications. Read more...        
  June 26, 2013 - Gawker
• Alan Myers, longtime Devo drummer, has died
  Chances are in coming days when you’re reading about percussionist Alan Myers, who died Monday after a battle with brain cancer, the words "human metronome" will be used. Myers' drumming for punk band Devo came to define the band’s off-kilter sound.
  June 26, 2013 - Los Angeles Times

Quotes

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• Ron Wilson in TSN.ca
  We were having trouble concentrating on where to go,said Wilson. "For example, our (defencemen) moving the puck quickly - we were like a beat slow on the metronome tonight."
• Graeme Murphy in Kansas City infoZine
  In his program notes, Murphy writes, "After the human body, the piano has always been my favorite instrument. It is the music-maker of my memory, and the melodic metronome of my earliest dance training."
• Brad Childress in Minneapolis Star Tribune
  Frank Kush used to use a metronome back there,Childress said.