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Playing with a metronome

Zé Marques

Free Bird Player
Nov 11, 2019
35
0
I have always found difficult to play with a metronome. I have no idea the certain bpm of a music (because a quarter in 180bpm can be an eighth in 90bpm) and I always lose track of the beat after a minute. What did you guys did to learn how to play with a metronome?
 

Brian Haner Sr.

Papa
Staff member
Legend+
Fucking Legend
Nov 11, 2019
812
3
3,507
Hey Zé,
Set your metronome so 1 is always accented. Most metronome apps allow you to set it to quarter notes, eighth notes, etc. So at any tempo or time signature, you should always know where 1 is.
 

Donnie Keeney

Free Bird Player
Nov 11, 2019
67
13
I agree with Papa Gates. Set it so you an put an accent on the “one” and try to place an emphasis on that beat when practicing. Start with quarter notes then work on subdividing down to eights, triplets, sixteenths, etc