![]() Both devices feature metal casings and a chunky bezel on the left that makes for a good grip. The screen of both devices has front lighting and adjustable color. On the other hand, the Kindle Scribe is a tad smaller but sharper with its 10.2-inch 300 PPI display. ![]() For example, I'm not a pianist, my left hand doesn't work smoothly on a horizontal keyboard and my right hand is not very confident on the piano but thanks to the metronome I learned to play difficult stuff that I thought was impossible to learn.Lenovo's E-Ink tablet has a 10.3-inch anti-glare E-Ink touch display with a pixel density of 227 PPI. It's should be used to practice something that is beyond our skills. I don't want to convince anyone but as I said, this is what I've seen in many years of teaching and playing with others musicians.Ī metronome is a tool that makes possible "the impossible". If you want to play something more complex, there's no way.the metronome should be used from the beginning otherwise it will take a very long time to correct all the mistakes learned playing too fast. If you can play a piece reading at first sight, you probably don't need to practice it with a metronome because it's a relatively simple piece. The metronome should be used to force you to play slowly (at the beginning) and to speed up the performance (after you've learned to play it). (If you're playing so slow that you don't have frequent enough clicks to observe and adjust, just double the tempo of the clicks so that they're playing on, for example, eighth notes rather than quarter notes.)Ĭlick to expand.In my experience as a teacher, this is the best way to learn badly a piece. That gives you more "processor cycles per beat", giving you more time to divide your attention between playing and observing/adjusting against the metronome. Just the right-hand part of a tune, or just the left-hand part.Īnother is to play slower. One solution is to play things that don't require as much attention, freeing up more of your attention for the metronome. Next thing you know, there aren't any cycles being devoted to the metronome-you've completely stopped paying attention to it, and you're likely waaaay off by that point. It's the same skill used when playing with other people, which is why I always say that if you can't play with a metronome, there's little hope of being able to play with others (at least not without annoying them).Īnyway, when you then try to play an actual tune, your brain has a lot more to pay attention to! Like a computer chip, you only have so many "processor cycles" to spare at any given moment, and you can easily use them up trying to worry about your right hand fingers, your left hand fingers, the bellows, etc. Even if it slowly sped up or slowed down, you should still be able to play along with it. A metronome is very precise of course, but that's not the point. you're honing the ability to play along with an external reference. ![]() You're not learning to play "like a robot". In fact, I feel that when you practice with a metronome, that's the skill you're building most of all. There's a continuous feedback loop of observing and adjusting, observing and adjusting. What's really going on is that you are playing the note, judging where that note falls in relationship with the "click" of the metronome, then adjusting things accordingly if need be. Or at least get quickly to the point where you were doing it well. ![]() I have no doubt that, if you were to just play one single note with one finger (or just tap the top of your accordion), over and over again in time with a metronome, you could do it pretty well. The thing about playing with a metronome is that it is largely about attention training. stop using it if it takes away instead of adding. Try it, use it and keep it if it works for you. I have a real electric metronome downstairs, but that one I have not used yet. I'm struggling a lot trying to slowly get back in the flow with Free Bass and found that generally speaking, using an online metronome is helping me more than hurting. I have also been playing with arrangers for decades which do have that fixed beat and never change and find that I can most easily follow the set speed without much thought, but I definitely know that I am making speed changes without them. Now, over the years that is the only way that I used a metronome and I found it useful as a tool to give me a predictable and consistent known speed, and there I can say that I did find a strong aid. He told me to never play a song using a metronome, not even when practicing, unless you want to learn how to be a drum machine and suck away passages where speed changes could add to the feeling of a musical piece. My teacher at the music conservatory was hard core against metronomes for all but one case, and that was to be rigorously used with exercises. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |