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Playing Speed
I don’t read music and am puzzled as to the timing of the lessons. The tab might show 60 bpm, which I get, but is the play along at 60 bpm the 1X speed, or one of the options (.5X, .75X, 1.25X and so on)? I’m looking for a target speed for each of the challenges.
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@Bainer I’d say that the short answer to your question is that you should play the lesson slow enough that you are not making any mistakes. Once you can play a passage 5 times with no mistake, you can inch up the tempo a bit. Keep doing that until you reach the desired tempo. I think it’s actually harder to play something slower than faster, because all your mistakes are obvious (which is exactly why slow is a good practice tool).
The actual BPM beats per minute you would set your metronome on to reach your target tempo is also a bit misleading. If you set your quarter notes as one click, you might be set at 50 BPM on your metronome. But if you’ve got the same tempo but have some tricky dotted quarter notes to master, you might want to set your eighth notes as one click each…. so your metronome would be set at 100 BPM but your tempo would still be 50 (You just have twice the clicks per measure)
There are some really cool metronome apps out there that have a tap feature. You just tap the screen to the beat and it automatically sets the metronome speed to match your tapped in tempo.
Hope some of that helps!! C
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The 1x play along should be at the normal speed. So if the song is 60bpm, then the 1x play along will also be 60bpm
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Hello – I am relatively new. I am finding that when I switch speeds the sounds get very distorted – almost to the point it’s not worth trying to go faster. Any suggestions on best browsers to use? Thanks,
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