[MARK WILSON DEMONSTRATING THE USE OF BEATNIK]

MARK WILSON: Hi. I'm Mark Wilson. I'm the inventor of the Beatnik Rhythmic Analyzer. There's never been anything like the Beatnik before.

Yes it has a metronome in it and it's built around a drum pad, but it's not a metronome and a drum pad. What makes it unique is the analyzer software that's inside.

This is the screen of the Beatnik Rhythmic Analyzer. It's the width of a quarter note always. So right now, it's set for 16th notes at 60 beats a minute. Each one of these four vertical dotted lines is one of the four 16th notes. So, I started it; now I'm going to play along. I'm going to play what I hear.

Now the solid line, that's my stroke marker, and the object is to put your stroke marker inside the click marker, and when you do it adds to your score, and if you hit outside you can see that score heading for the dirt.

There are different ways to look at the data. I think of it like a big data collection device. It's collecting all the timing of every stroke you make. So as I'm playing, this is the real time view. This is the history view where every stroke puts a single dot on the screen, and it builds these bell curves up so you can see, "Wow! This guy is on, but I'm a little sloppy here. It's just kind of funny because there it should al be even in something as simple as 16th notes at 60 beats a minute." You can see they're building up.

Here's another way to look at it. This is very cool. This is a sideways chart. If it goes up, I rushed. If it goes down, I dragged. It's like a temperature chart. [MARK WILSON STILL DEMONSTRATING THE USE OF BEATNIK] I'm right here now, not doing bad. Uh!

So that's the history view. This is a history view and then the real time view. So, everything I've shown you up till now is in one of the analyzers, the subdivision analyzer.

There are five analyzers in it, and each analyzer looks at the different aspect of your timing and rhythmic accuracy. There's the subdivision analyzer, the dynamics analyzer, the groove analyzer -- the groove analyzer is cool because it doesn' care whether you play on top of the beat, behind the beat, on the beat. You can play off beats and it won't count against you; just don't drift. Wherever you come in, that's where you have to stay.