question "metronome"

hobo

hobo

simple guitar player
When using the metronome, I find that my patience to use one to practice on is like maybe 3 minutes then stop/rest and give it a go again. Is this very typical of your students too? Like when using one is your time about the same or do you/can you practice using one for much longer time.

I do find that using it, my rhythm has greatly improved for single note practice exercises, and for me that is like "wow" maybe there is a little hope :eek:
 
I don't know what the teachers here will say..but this is the reason I usually use a drum machine as it's more fun..rather than just a ticking metronome...although this one is really good and free!...you can make it sound a bit more interesting that the average metronome:

http://www.pinkandaint.com/weirdmet.shtml
 
hobo uncle sam said:
When using the metronome, I find that my patience to use one to practice on is like maybe 3 minutes then stop/rest and give it a go again. Is this very typical of your students too? Like when using one is your time about the same or do you/can you practice using one for much longer time.

I do find that using it, my rhythm has greatly improved for single note practice exercises, and for me that is like "wow" maybe there is a little hope :eek:
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It's just another tool to work with.

I'm not a fan of just using drum loops to practice with though because I think people play more "reflexively" with a drum loop and tend not to pay as much attention to what they are doing rhythmically.
 
I hate useing the metronome, but I use it any way becuase it really does help my shitty timeing.
 
I still practice with the metronome 25 years into my playing career. Drum loops too.

Since I've been playing so much in the way of drums for the classes here I'm going to set up a click for me to play with in class since my time when I drum is so atrocious.
 
i use a metronome if i'm learning something out of a method book. but it does get a bit tiring after a few minutes. so i turn it off, do something else and then turn it back on. i think that's totally ok. just as long as you continue to do it.

i say this to my students on a weekly basis: the metronome is your best friend and worst enemy.
 
I had a problem with a drum machine last night. I was invited over to jam with someone who bought a new Strat, kinda, and he had a new Roland cube with a beat box in it. I don't mind jamming with a mechanical drummer if a real one isn't there, so we started to get into some Am riffing. But when I started getting polyrhythmic with it, playing behind the beat and changing to being ahead of the beat, my friend, a former marine engineer, got exasperated and accused me of losing the beat. He made me play what I was playing again, only with him just watching, and even though he could hear I had a consistent rhythm happening the fact I was behind or ahead of the beat was proof I couldn't stay on it. Mind you, his friends thought this was hilarious, especially when I started singing songs to go with some Am chords.

I think I'm going to get a gold, no, titanium chain, and make my first necklace bling for myself with the mint Roland Dr. Rhythm a friend sold me for $75, with the original vinyl case and instructions. Yeah... not a symbol of cash, but having a drummer on a chain around my neck. Maybe I'll tattoo a bassist name on both arms to be stereo and find a bassist that way.

as always, John Watt
 
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