RB3 - Posted - 11/04/2023: 21:05:45
This is an excellent video tutorial for learning to use a metronome.
I started using a metronome back in the Seventies. When I bought the metronome and first attempted to use it, I had just learned the Earl Scruggs version of Blue Ridge Cabin Home out of the Scuggs instruction book. I had been playing the song incessantly, and I thought I was playing it pretty well, so I decided that it would be a good candidate to try first with the metronome. Try as I may, I could not get in sync with the metronome. So, I did exactly what you demonstrate at the beginning of your video. I progressively reduced the complexity of what I was trying to play until I was able to get in sync with metronome. Then as I became comfortable with the metronome, I began to reintroduce more complexity, and it didn't take long before I was playing the song, with the metronome, at the appropriate tempo. Learning to use the metronome was the best single thing I ever did to improve my playing.
I'd be interested to see you expand the scope of your video tutorial to include a discussion of the relationship between the number of clicks per minute of the metronome and the number of beats per minute of the music as specified by the time signature of tablature or standard notation. I think this is often a source of confusion for beginners who are trying to learn to use tablature and/or a metronome.
Edited by - RB3 on 11/04/2023 21:15:36
