Filip -> RE: Practising with a metronome (Oct. 5 2019 11:38:23)
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I've been playing guitar for some 16 years, most of the time without metronome. But there was a time around 6 years ago when I sat down to learn Percusion Flamenca by PdL, with a metronome. I started with 60bpm, I would learn a falseta with that tempo and when I had it I would move to the next falseta; then I would increase the tempo. It took me around two months to reach 120bpm with the whole song, and I am convinced that that experience had made me much better guitar player and had made my technique much much better than it was before. Most of the time now I do not use metronome in playing, but I sometimes use it when I am learning new falsetas which definitely improves playing and technique, at least I see the difference. Ricardo's method as shown with Tomatito falseta is very good for me, I learnt parts of Guardian Angel like that. I don't play it regularly anymore, but even now I can play it fairly well and haven't forgotten it. What's interesting is that I can use the same method for warming up and the difference when I play the intro before and after only 5-10 minutes warming can be huge, I have the feeling I get quite a boost especially for the time invested. Currently I am working on Niquelao, I started learning it a few days ago. I also think that starting slowly with a metronome or foot tap (but not too slowly as Ricardo mentioned) is in general very good warm up method. For example, I would start with a falseta, sometimes even whole song, with a metronome slowed down. As early as within 20-30 minutes working like that I gain much better control of my hands and fingers and I have the feeling of the big boost. Whatever I play afterwards is, as far as I can note, much better played and controlled. I do struggle with compas however. With Rio de la Miel falseta for example, I started with a metronome only on accented beats and compas-wise I was playing fine but I noticed that I did not have full control of what was going on in the middle. Then I put a sound tick on every beat and got the falseta perfectly well but I could not play it very well if I used compas metronome, I just got lost. Still working on that. Cheers
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