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The main features of this program.
In the shot above, the clock face is shown with the hand in 3-4 Up. The right hand panel shows the method - Plain Bob Doubles. Under that the Touch selector - A Plain Course. The lower large box contains a statement of your current place and your next work.
The File menu, Opens a tutorial document. There are nine methods - Plain Bob in Minimus, Doubles, Minor, Triples and Major, Grandsire in Doubles and Triples, plus St.Martins and St.Simons Doubles.
The View menu, allows the prompting level and blue line to be configured at any time.
Use the Menu option: File / Open Select the method from those available in the list and click Open. The tutorial will load. Under the method name is a drop down box containing the words Plain Course this also contains a list of touches that may be selected. Any selection must be made before proceeding. Leave the selection as a plain course. Select which level of textual and Blue line prompting you want from the Menu option: View
Click the Pick Bell button. The numbers buttons are now available. Click the bell you want to learn. If you have chosen a working bell, the hand on the clock is positioned at your start point. There will be no hand for hunting or cover bells. The Blue line now appears too.
Click the Go button. Enter the place you make at your first handstroke. If correctly entered, the clock hand steps on and the Blue line moves up. You may review a section of the work by rewinding and going forward again. To start again, click Reset.
The large message box tells you which button to press if you forget.
This program was originally created to help new recruits learn the simple methods like Grandsire and Plain Bob. Feedback to the author suggested the Method Tutor may also be helpful in learning more complex methods too. As a result of this feedback an separate installer has been created that adds an additional set of tutorial documents. If you are just learning the simple methods don't install these documents for the moment as all they will do is clutter the list of names you get when opening the tutor. Come back and install them when you find the need.
In addition to the Nine methods included with the standard download the Forty Eight extra methods available are listed here. The methods are grouped by stages, eg Minor, Triples, Major. Each stage can be selected individually, so there is no need to install Maximus if you ring in a six bell tower.
On the second screen of the separate installer, hover the mouse over the list to see the methods list in the area below the list and click the tick box to install that bunch of tutorial files. Tick the method group(s) you want to install and then click on the Install button which is coloured blue in this picture. |
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In the panel below this text. Click on the section of the panel containing the underlined file name. This is an installer for this application.
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Once fully downloaded, install the Bellringing Program. You don't need to be on-line. Find the file you downloaded with Windows Explorer, double click the Icon which looks like this. The installer will instruct you what to do. When completed, you may delete the downloaded file or copy it to another computer. |
| Method Tutor File Size 121Kb |
Click the link on the left to download Version 3.06 of this program |
| Additional and Advanced Methods File Size 64Kb |
Please read the "Additional and Advanced Methods" paragraph above before Clicking the link on the left. |