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Metronomes anyone
Does anyone have advice in the area of metronomes?
Mechanical vs. digital
Wooden($200) vs. plastic($24)
Thoughts and observations anyone?
After all these years I thought it might be time to get in time.
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Personally I wouldn’t spend $200, when you can download a free App. I have and old phone on my desk that I use to record sessions. It also has the Fender app on it with whole array of tools like metronome, tuner, chord finder, If I was to have my heart set on a mechanical metronome I would check thrift stores and estate sales.
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My 2 cents… I use a digital one, KLIQ Metropitch. I like that I can set it to beep quarters, eighths, triplets, sixteenths etc. it helps me to hear the upstrums, 1&uh, 1e&a, etc when I am trying to learn a strumming pattern. It has a lot of other features which are easy to look up. Downside might be it can use up your battery supply. I purchased a USB rechargeable one but returned it as I missed some of the features of the KLIQ. I use the metronome alot with Tony’s lessons, usually starting at 30 bpm and working my way up. I do play along, although less frequently, with the PLAY. But I find I like the ability to loop the measures and not pause at the ‘count in’ Tony’s videos have.
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Thanks everyone for the comments. My wife got me a digital and mechanical(plastic case) for my birthday not knowing anything about them. I had never actually used one so didn’t know anything about them either. I have been using an app on my laptop lately to try and get used to using one. Timing is everything in life and in music for sure.
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Playing with a metronome is critical says every music teacher ever.
I have been using this app for a while now (https://gapclick.app/) – I like that I can set it up to ‘skip’ beats which helps me test out how accurate my internal clock is. It also has a lot of other features but I mostly just use it as a straight metronome.
I’ve also found that I enjoy playing with drumbeats more than just a click, so I’ll open youtube and just search for ‘drum track 120 bpm’ (change the bpm to whatever tempo you’re looking for) and there will be a lot of options.
Rock on!
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I can definitely tell that it helps me, but dang it is taking some getting used to. I am trying at the same time to improve my pick accuracy and ability to get the ‘and’ beat to be an upstroke with the pick aka ‘the golden rule of flatpicking’. Many years of bad habits to break. Timing and pick accuracy are paramount. Of course easier said than done. Practice, practice, practice is what works for me. I am on number 1,000,……. attempts at singing and playing “Ripple” by the G.D. Challenging at the very least!!!
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When my grandson started working with me at Christmas to record a few postings, he kept laughing at me because I would get off beat which makes lining up tracks difficto impossible. So I added rhythm to my TAC quarterly goals to overcome my cavalier attitude about timing. (And get rid of the disgrace of having my grandson laugh at his Poppy).
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I had thought, with hubris, for years that my sense of timing was just fine that I did not need a metronome because my timing was just fine. I took Tony’s advice and began to record myself in an effort to post a tune for this site. Lo and behold, my timing was fine EXCEPT… I was not keeping it steady and was varying up and down sometimes right and sometimes not. So now my daily routine has to include some time for timing too! Onward through the Fog
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