Echo Chain adds memory to the timing problem. You hear a rhythm, hold its shape through a short gap and then reproduce it from beat one.
How Echo Chain works
- Listen to the count-in and pattern. You can choose whether the pattern plays once or twice before your turn.
- Remember the spaces as well as the notes. Rests and offbeats are part of the pattern.
- Use the return count-in. Your echo begins from beat one, so the bar position matters.
- Reproduce the rhythm. TempoLock compares the expected pattern with your taps and also measures their timing.
A 30-level rhythm-memory ladder
The early levels use simple quarter-note shapes. Later levels introduce rests, eighth notes, odd meters, offbeats, syncopation, triplets and longer two-bar phrases. Each step asks you to remember a different kind of rhythm, rather than just more notes.
Normal and Hard
Normal keeps an ordinary count-in reference available during the echo. Hard removes that support after the count-in, so you must preserve both the pattern and the pulse internally.
Scoring balances recall and timing
The overall score is 80% pattern recall and 20% timing. Playing in perfect time with notes missing will not score well, and neither will playing every note but placing them loosely.
| Result | Pattern requirement |
|---|---|
| 1★ | 6,500+, at least 90% recall, max 1 missing/extra tap |
| 2★ | 8,000+, at least 97% recall, 0 misses/extras |
| 3★ | 9,200+, at least 99.5% recall, 0 misses/extras |
| Locked In | 9,800+ |
| Perfect | 10,000 |
Remember the rhythm in chunks
Try hearing a pattern as a few shapes — for example “two close notes, a gap, then two on the beat” — instead of memorising individual timestamps. Chunking the rhythm usually scales better when the patterns become longer.