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gato
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RE: Delcamp Forum (in reply to Ricardo)
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Metronomes can't change your sense of rhythm, either you feel one kind of music or you feel another. It's in your upbringing, you have a sense of 'auto rhythm' with the musical and rhythmic biases that became natural to you; a forum can teach you things but it cant change what is your natural. What you have to do is choose carefully the music and rhythm that you hear and feel and play that. It's a hard lesson to learn, but a metronome is nothing but a tool to calculate rhythm, tempo and syncopation. It's the same with harmony and melody, if you hear the blues you hear the blues, if you hear bluegrass, you hear bluegrass, if you hear flamenco you hear flamenco. You have go with your ear, and your feeling of tempo. It doesn't mean that you are a bad musician if you can't play everything, and it doesn't mean that you can't appreciate foreign and/or different kinds of music. Some people actually have self concience feelings of anexiety when they listen to what they consider strange and different music. The important thing is that we all practice tolerance and get along with our different and unique tastes and most importantly our many diverse cultures around the world.
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Date Jun. 14 2007 1:30:22
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gato
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RE: Delcamp Forum (in reply to duende)
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I have different kinds of rhythm, and different kinds of musical tastes, but there are kinds of music that I just can't get. With the kinds of musical tastes that I have it came rather quickly. A metronome can inprove your musical skill, but what you are not accoustomed to comes rather hard, and I think it's not worth it to fight rythmic and tonic orientation, you have to make that decision for yourself, and it is very hard to change, it's like trying to learn languages later in life. You orient as a child. But, when, I want to understand something, and I want to tap it out I will reach for a metronome, and use it as I said because 'it is a tool,' I'm sorry if that is a harsh attitude to you, that is all it is, and that is the way that I feel. I didn't mean to sound so grim, but it's very good to accept things instead of denying them, when all it is is conditioning, and it's very hard to break.
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Date Jun. 14 2007 8:38:12
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ToddK
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RE: Delcamp Forum (in reply to gato)
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Metronomes can't change your sense of rhythm, either you feel one kind of music or you feel another I think you're extremely mistaken here. A perfect pulse is a perfect pulse, any where in the world, and in any kind of music. What you're describing is the different ways in wich different people "Swing" the rhythm. IE, the small diversions of certain beats, accents etc etc.. For instance, the way the "and's" are closer to the following downbeats in a Jerez bulerias. Depending on where you are in the world, and the style of music, you will have varied amounts of swing/ push and pull, in the rhythm. BUT! At the center, is still perfect quarter note pulse. As far as learning/training to be a great musician, internalizing a perfect pulse with a metronome is an absolute must. The only alternative is training with other players whom have already developed a perfect pulse. I practice with a metronome all the time. It really keeps my rhythmic equalibrium calibrated. I think this is one of the most important things you can do for your playing.
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Date Jun. 14 2007 9:16:03
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