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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Mar 29, 2023 ^^
Rating : 4.944 (14/987 LTDR)
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What is going on with this "we" hate metronomes comment? Don't lump me in with that comment. I like them and use them a lot. Not during songs but during practice it is on most of the time. Maybe after 30 years of drumming the internal clock might be good enough to play without it but for now it is not so i have to use one.
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For a Christmas worship team, we were playing with a click track and doing a version of Little Drummer Boy. There was a 4 beat intro for the drums to do a thing. Even with the click track, somehow, I got done with my 4 beat in just over 3 beats on the click. There was a awkward silence and then everyone came in. I knew what I had done right away and had to laugh.
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Holy Cow Jack! Not only did you smoke that song, it looks like you did it using your less dominant hand! I'm a 63 year old drummer playing since age 5. Oh yeah... I was also born with Cerebral Palsy with limited use of my legs. I've recently lost all use of my legs and am trying to come up with a working kit utilizing my hands for both the kick and hats. I wanted to stop by and give you the insane props that you deserve!
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When I fist started taking drum lessons I bought a Roland RMP-5 Rhythm Coach. It has 16 metronome sounds, the only one I really like is the stick click sound. It has a very fast attack and very fast decay. I still think that is about the best metronome sound with a muted cow bell being 2nd.
The cool part about the stick click is if you click your sticks in time with it, the sound just disappears.
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I love metronomes, as long as I can set a sound that isn't grating to my ears. Usually, I look for either a woodblock, or a cowbell sound. I often use one sound for beat 1 & another sound for all other beats, depending on the music I'm working on. Generally, I view the metronome as another musician with whom I'm grooving. I can play ahead, together, or behind the metronome, just as I would another musician. The Pro Metronome app is what I've been using for the last several years. It has a gap-click rhythm trainer, a practice mode to gradually increase the tempo, & the ability to save playlists. I only like one out of the thirteen sound settings, but that's enough for me.
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I love this conversation.
I didn't play to a click for a very long time and the only thing I believe I suffered from is coming out of my fills that fast throwing the beat off by at least a sixteenth depending on how fast I was playing. I love playing to a click now it keeps my grooves steady and my fills clean but my band wants to do songs that drag in parts especially at the end (think of Black Sabbath) so much I have to abandon the click and play by feel.
Also it doesn't help to be the only one to hear the click when the guitar player doesn't know how to follow the drummer. I have heard that I'm playing the song too slow and I'm playing to the bpm that was given to me. Oh the life of a drummer.
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I don't like them live, but in the studio, absolutely. I use a cowbell for my metronome sound. I don't have an accented 1 just a straight cowbell. The feel is better to me. I have had situations where someone has sent me tracks where I'm replacing drums and the track wasn't originally recorded to a click. In that situation I'll record a track of me playing cowbell so I have that one sound that is above the rest.
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@meropale
1 year ago
I'm not a drummer but I love what metronomes can do. I am learning piano. The metronome really isn't there to make you an unfeeling robot; it's there to help you control your rhythm.
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