Perfecting Your Musical Timing Using a Metronome Tuner
Have you ever found that you are totally overwhelmed by a sense of rhythm or groove while listening to any musicians or in fact your favorite guitar player?
All humans are not born along with “internal clocks” or “ perfect time”. Every musician will spend much time practicing using a metronome, a drum machine software or a drum machine to develop perfectly this necessary skill. The metronome has to be tuned using a metronome tuner. With their emotional and mental states fluctuating constantly, musicians have to learn to keep a steady time. So it is necessary to practice daily with a metronome tuner to master all styles of music at any tempo.
Forgotten are the days when the pendulum-style metronomes were used. In our modern age, we can purchase a metronome and a metronome tuner, which is modest, built-in in the size of a credit card! Even drum machines are a good way to practice as long as one can program them well or it is preset in the factory. Just be sure that the tempos are steady! Similarly, some metronomes/drum machines can handle odd meters.
Most musicians are unaware of the various ways to use the metronome to simulate the “feel” of a drummer or rhythm section. Here are the most common ways to use the digital metronome effectively:
1.Set the beat for each quarter note for Latin, Funk, or Rock styles
2.Set the beat on “2 and 4″ to simulate the way a drummer hits the snare or hi-hat for Swing or “Back-beat” rhythms.
3.Set the beat on “1 and 3″ for Classical or Reggae.
4.When practising triplet groupings like 3/4, 6/8 or 12/8 set the metronome beat to eighth notes.
5.To practice speeding up and slowing down…record the metronome doing this and practice to the play back of your recording.
