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Andy Schonauer

Andy Schonauer

Professional drummer, Berklee College graduate, and creator of SYNKD metronome app and Count Clap Tap rhythm method; based in NYC.

Jun 1, 2026

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23:13
I suppose, I suppose why, why do you make, why did you make an app, and why do you think that it, that it supports that kind of learning?
23:19
Um, so we'll go way, way, way, way back to the end of the '90s.
23:26
Um, I was, I was going to music school, and we were working out of a really dense rhythmic book called Rhythm and Meter, uh, by this great drum teacher named Gary Chaffee.
23:39
Um, and we had to do, play back all these reading exercises, but none of us knew what these rhythms actually really sounded like.
23:47
They were all broken quintuplets and septuplets and things with lots of rests, and no metronome really played that back.And so it was, you kind of was like guesswork.
23:57
Like, I think this is what it sounds like, but there was no real way of really knowing.
24:02
Um, so I was always wishing that something was available to do it, and this is way before apps even existed.

23 MINS LATER

46:58
[chuckles] Now we're gonna play the piece from list A," et cetera, et cetera.

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