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I don't like using a metronome, but I find it essential now to keeping myself in time (especially for songs I'm learning or where I have some rough spots). I find it very useful to be able to change the sound--my Snark metronome has a few different sounds that I can run through that may better accompany what I'm playing. Still don't like it, but I think it's really useful.
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I struggle with the metronome for the reason that I can't listen to the beep beep and concentrate on my plying, but perhaps that is what it is all about. I'm working at it. Quote:
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It might tend that way if you routinely work up new material (especially more emotive things) while playing a metronome.
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Folkies used to like to say that Bob Dylan's timing was all over the map and he did pretty good for himself. When you are Bob Dylan, you can do whatever you want, until then you need good timing. I just realized that over the past 2.5 years playing alone my timing has gone into the crapper. I'm now working almost full time with the metronome. I don't like it anymore than anyone else does, but it's one of those things that you just have to do. |
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In my experience, playing with a metronome opens up new ideas for cadence and timing. It’s made me a more dynamic player, if anything. I haven’t seen any evidence that a metronome makes a player mechanical. Last edited by Joe Beamish; 06-23-2022 at 02:18 PM. |
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Eric Skye (who often posts here) has a series of videos where he talks about practicing with a metronome, and setting it on beats 2 and 4. I got the impression he does this a lot, maybe almost all the time he is practicing. His playing is in no way mechanical.
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For me, a metronome is all about listening in real time, and lifting myself above the instrument to hear everything. Far more so than it is about click track timing. Although I can play to a click track if I need to (such as multi tracking Elzics Farewell below). Regarding phrasing: when I was running dulcimer workshops I would switch on a metronome at around 60 bps and play Danny Boy, moving the phrasing around as you would sing it but always coming back to the beat (back to the band) at key points.
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The metronome is a great way to find out if you really know the music. You don’t know it if you have to think about it, and with the metronome you can’t think about the music AND the metronome. Powerful tool.
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Working on the 2 and 4 beat takes a bit of practice but is a pretty cool way to use a metronome because as Eric explains it gives you a bit of space to work within. I also like how Eric for the most part does not focus on just using a metronome but using a metronome to develop your “groove”.
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In Josh Turknett's book, the Laws of Brainjo, he talks about this. Josh is a neuroscientist who plays banjo. The book's all about how we learn, how to practice effectively etc. Lots of interesting ideas. He talks a lot about how learning is building neuro pathways in the brain. Once the paths are there, built correctly, you can play something easily. The question is "how do you know when the pathways are built?". He says the metronome is a good test. If you can play correctly while paying attention to the metronome, then you have truly learned the piece. I imagine other distractions would work as well - like if you play a piece while watching TV or carrying on a conversation.
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Being a classical music lover are a couple of examples of living breathing playing that moves me.
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