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Ricardo -> RE: Overfocusing on the metronome (Apr. 25 2025 17:24:44)
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ORIGINAL: metalhead
I've hit a problem. I pretty much play all the time with a metronome. However, with bulerias this has led me to being stuck at 200-210 mark. The thing is I'm too cautious of my time and always count internally. Upto 200 it's fine, but as it gets faster, my capacity to constantly keep track of every beat starts falling apart. Actually I don't keep track of playable beats, I track only gaps or silences. So if 6 beats are played straight 8 notes and then there's a gap of 1 1/2 beat, I only track this silence.
But since 200, I try harder to count these gaps due to the increased tempo and it leads to rushing or dragging often. The over consciousness of my timing ironically messes it up. What is the solution to this?
Well for one it seems that is your ball park for now, you might want to focus some intense practice a hair slower than that to dial it in. 190 or so. But even around here you need to start working with the metronome cut in half. Around 95 on up to 100 and once you are doing that well you will see why you got stuck before. It should be a slower "feeling" with you doing more controlled subdivisions. At 95+ the clicks can either be the 12,2,4,6,8, 10 (I recommend this), or, as you get more advanced, you let them express the 1,3,5,7,9,11...why that is actually better is because you are actually controlling the beat and you can micro time a swing such that those up beats (which function like the palmas accents we typically use) feel like on the "back beat" and really groove. From there speeding up is pretty easy.
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