? On Timing And Practicing With Metronome, Just picked one up and have viewed Kris's 101 lesson |
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Dec 3 2007, 09:07 PM
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Hi Gerald,
As you have just found out, useing a metronome can be a more little complex when you are not just picking easy to count values such as 16th notes, 8th notes etc. You have also found out that tabs give you no timeing information, for use with a metronome!! Ahhh, but dont worry. This is where the musical notation comes in handy, dont worry you dont have to be able to read music (although i now reval in it   ).When practicing a peice of music, I will break it down a few bars at a time, looking at the information given in the musical notation and use it to play the lick, chord or whatever in correct time. You can still use the tab to give you the fingers, but its a good idea to use the music above to find out how to play it to your metronome. This is where I point you to andrews theory lessons on Time. They are well worth reading carefully, once you have learnt the basic concepts it will make metronome useage alot easier !! Im not big on useing alot of theory in my playing (although i do like to know it all) ,but I am fantaical about timeing because I think it makes for good practice. You can start your Journey HERE Then move on when your ready to part 2 & 3  I hope this helps you a little, just ask if you have any more questions regards matt -------------------- mysql> SELECT * FROM master_name WHERE ((firstname = 'Paul') AND (lastname = 'Gilbert'));
"The Fundimental Difference between Paul Gilbert and Buckethead is that Paul Explores the Good side of the force, while Buckethead Explores the Dark Side of the Force" :) |
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Dec 3 2007, 09:11 PM
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Thanks for the response! I didn't realize Andrew had a post on timing.
p.s. Buckethead rules!!!!! |
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Dec 6 2007, 04:17 PM
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QUOTE (Gerald @ Dec 6 2007, 02:49 PM)  For jamming I'll keep that to when my roommate and I are making a beat. I need to get my butt going on a PC so I can jam out to the backing tracks for the lessons and create my own backing tracks in cubase. Matt - how do you practice with the metronome? Do you take a scale or mode and put on say 80bpm, to work on say 16th triplets then bump it up bit by bit? Jamming with a mate is a great idea, especially if you have to good beats to play too. When I play with my instructor we choose a good beat and then work together, usually he does Rythm (cause thats what he does best)and I do leads When I practice with the metronome on a daily basis, I work with it many ways. Once such way is picking a scale and useing licks and phrases I have already learnt and applying them all over the fretboard. A good example of this is Pavels Ionian Speed picking Lesson. I will typically either use the metronome too keep time, or the the backing track if I can. I typically use the metronome when I practice any GMC or other exercies, and especially with 3-note per string and Sweeping stuff. These days I rarley use one for practicing pentatonics because I have gotten to the point where my playing is fluid in that area. When I first started though, I used my metronome to practice all the pentatonic licks I had learnt from kris's videos. And yes, its a great idea to start out as slow as you need, and working up say 5 bpm at a time. In summary, practice all the pentatonic licks you can learn useing your metronome. Then when your ready apply them useing all the scale boxes you have learnt from the Pentatonic shifing vids. So you will be able to slide around the fretboard doing funky licks in key with no problems! Remember the best thing about pentatonic boxes is, once you have masterd improvising in one key - you can shift the same boxes around to use any key you like!! p,s if for loads more awsome ideas and penta licks check out the various Pentatonic lessons from David , Gabriel and Ivan etc. You can mix and match ! This post has been edited by mattacuk: Dec 6 2007, 04:32 PM -------------------- mysql> SELECT * FROM master_name WHERE ((firstname = 'Paul') AND (lastname = 'Gilbert'));
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