Alarm clock with MPD

Hi there. I'm currently using MPD to wake up with just these 2 commands
sleep 6h && mpc play
But i'd like to have some script able to turn up the volume progressively. The ideal parameters would be: [% of starting volume], [% of final volume] and [time step]. I'm relatively new to linux, so if someone can help scripting, I will be thankfull.
PS: I think MPC can be useful for make this script.

This is what I have been using to make sure I don't oversleep. It works quite well:
#!/bin/bash
### Wake-Up Alarm ##############
# Version 0.1 by Scott Garrett #
# Wintervenom [(at)] gmail.com #
# In case we are connected to an amplifier.
volume Master 20
# So our Last.fm account doesn't get filled with night-playlist entries.
killall mpcscribble
mpc clear
mpc load 01-Night
mpc next
mpc play
# Wait until the time specified by the user (in %H%M format) to wake up.
echo "Sleeping until $1."
until [ "`date +'%H%M'`" = "$1" ]; do
sleep 2
done
# We can start scrobbling again.
mpcscribble &
mpc pause
# Crank the volumes past eleven!
volume Master unmute
volume Master 100
volume PCM unmute
volume PCM 100
volume Beep unmute
volume Beep 100
speak It is time to wake your ass up
# Guarenteed to wake the whole dorm wing up when connected to an amplifier.
# (Needs ALSA's PC speaker beep emulation.)
beep -f3200 -l200 -d30 -r50
volume Master 0
mpc clear
mpc load 99-Everything
mpc next
mpc play
# Gracefully increase the volume of our music after having the living demons
# waken within you.
for ((x=0; x<100; x++)); do
volume Master $x
sleep 0.1
done

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