Perfecting Your Musical Timing: The Metronome
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Have you ever listened to your favorite guitar player or other musician and found that you are totally overwhelmed by their sense of rhythm or groove?
Human beings are not born with "perfect time" or "internal clocks". All musicians must and will spend much time practicing with a metronome, a drum machine or drum machine software to develop and perfect this necessary skill. Musicians have to learn to keep steady time in spite of their emotional and mental states which fluctuate constantly. So, daily practice with a metronome will help you master all styles of music at any tempo.
Gone are the days of the pendulum-style metronome. In our digital age, you can purchase a metronome with a modest, built-in tuner that is the size of a credit card! Also, drum machines are a great way to practice as long as you can program them really well or the factory preset rhythms may be sufficient for your needs. Just make sure the tempos are steady! Also, some metronomes/drum machines can handle odd meters.
Most musicians are unaware of the various ways to use the metronome to simulate the "feel" of a drummer or rhythm section. Here are the most common ways to use the metronome effectively:
- Set the beat for each quarter note for Latin, Funk, or Rock styles
- Set the beat on "2 and 4" to simulate the way a drummer hits the snare or hi-hat for Swing or "Back-beat" rhythms.
- Set the beat on "1 and 3" for Classical or Reggae.
- When practicing triplet groupings like 3/4, 6/8 or 12/8 set the metronome beat to eighth notes.
- To practice speeding up and slowing down...record the metronome doing this and practice to the play back of your recording.
- After a while, you will know when you are right on the beat of the metronome because you will get the sensation of not hearing the metronome while you play! Essentially, your notes are replacing the metronome beats. This will happen but requires much patience/practice to achieve. Alternately, practice playing behind, ahead and against the beat of the metronome.
- Create your own play-alongs by recording the changes to your favorite songs in a way that the metronome can be heard clearly along with the chord changes.
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