Ricardo -> RE: Time Trainer Metronome (Apr. 2 2013 14:17:59)
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ORIGINAL: Ricardo Cool. Yet another potty trainer to replace the good ol' simple click which you can do all the above with. The drop out and speed things and accent etc all fun of course. Drum machine even more fun. How can a simple click metronome do the features? Like dropping a few bars? volume knob. quote:
Is there anything one can do with "the good ol' simple click" that one cannot do with the new "potty trainer" metronomes? I take it that part of your skepticism regarding the latter might be that the sexier features distract from what's involved in developing a solid, inner sense of timing. If so, I think there's something to that. At the same time, if one's metronome includes a visual representation of a 12-beat compas, then can't one improve both one's sense of timing and one's understanding of the larger structure of a complex piece of music? For those of us who haven't been studying music for the past two or three decades, that can be a real asset. Well, I have talked much about this in the past. Look up Victor Wooten metronome example in the archives. Idea being the more metronome you have helping you, the the easier you have it. If your goal is to have good time you need to (in wooten's words) "ween yourself off of the metronome". YOu have to learn to feel all the groove inbetween the clicks and the phrasing of meter too. The metronome clicking is simple and all can be done with only that, until comes the day you don't even really need it but don't mind practicing with it anyway. The click need not always be the 'beat" the click can mean different things relative you your playing, learning to relate your playing to it is key in such a way that (in ToddK wise words) the click appears to be "following you", not vice versa. The trap with the potty trainers is they help and then you become either a person chasing accents, not grooving and controlling time, and worse, your playing ends up to rely on the thing such that without it you are lost.
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