Romeo in Guitar World Jan 2006... tabs?
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Jaen
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I have it up to about 120, but still kinda sloppy. GOD DAMN this is hard, but it's so badass so I want to keep trying. This is the first time I've done this kind of metronome practice since high school.
War_Blade
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I can do the first bar at at romeo's speed, but it just goes downhill from there. everytime i throw on my metronome it really throws me off. I am in a really bad habbit of not using it.
anyone got any tips for getting used to and working with a metronome?
anyone got any tips for getting used to and working with a metronome?
Jaen
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practice hard, but also practice at a natural pace and also remeber that technique is only a tool. I remember back when i was taking piano lessons, i asked my piano teacher how she got so insanely fast and if she could give me any exercises for working on speed; she looked at me as if i were on crack and said: "when the time comes that you need speed for something, you will have it". turns out she was right...
Yngvai X
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Jaen said:
Honestly, I hate advice like this. You don't just "have" speed. Thats like telling someone "when the time comes to sprint 100 yards in 10 seconds you will have it." A better piece of advice I read was this: speed is the byproduct of accuracy. What your piano teacher said, with no offense to her, makes it sound like speed requires no practice, which is 100% false.
Eternal Dragon
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Yngvai X said:
I think its more along the lines of standard piano syllabusses progressing up fairly slowly, so you build yourself up to it. So by the time you're at the top grade you should be able to handle any speed problems. It kinda works when you're young and on your 1st instrument, but once u can play hard stuff on piano then go to guitar, then easy stuff is a lot of the time just too damn boring.
I agree that speed is a biproduct of accuracy, cos thats how I learn on guitar. Full speed until I know it. Doesnt work all the time, but most times its great. There's definately a lot more to it on piano, cos speed requires a fair bit of strength (hence the whole progression thing I mentioned above), but guitar u just have speed from the start pretty much so its only really a problem of accuracy + muscle memory.
Jaen
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Yngvai X said:
she didnt mean it like that, what she meant was more like, as Eternal Dragon said, to progress up to it while developing other skills as well instead of focusing exclusively on speed.
Yngvai X
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War_Blade
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Do guys have any tips for getting used to playing with a metronome? Like some drills or something?
im in a really bad habbit of never using one, and when i do turn it on it throws me off like crazy.
im in a really bad habbit of never using one, and when i do turn it on it throws me off like crazy.
Shredboy
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=pxveHAI26uM&search=Joe Stump
I actually have this whole Stump video, this is what I make people watch who ask me metronome questions.Its a good little segment.
I actually have this whole Stump video, this is what I make people watch who ask me metronome questions.Its a good little segment.
War_Blade
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Eternal Dragon
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Try doin a bit of improv with it to get used to it. I find that sometimes I get so involved with what i'm playing that I totally forget about the metronome, so really its just a matter of concentration. It is important if u intend to keep in time with a drummer one day or something, but maybe a little hard to use with crazy time sigs and stuff.
I've been playing with a metronome almost from the beginning, but as far as getting used to it I would say take something you already know well and set it to a metronome. Start off with something that isn't too rythmically complex. Work up to more syncopated pieces and ones with lots of switching between triplets and duplets, and nastier subdivisions. Start out really, REALLY slow. I mean half-speed or less. Get used to locking into the metronome and taking your queue from it instead of yourself, and getting every rythm and every articulation dead on perfect. Then start working up to full speed, then start pushing it faster, maybe 10 clicks at a go at first, then 5 clicks when you start pushing your boundaries. Lastly, go back to normal speed, without the metronome, and see how good and clean your technique is 
War_Blade
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what i have been doing which is helping is counting in my head.
1234-1234-1234-123456-1234-1224-etc.
1234-1234-1234-123456-1234-1224-etc.
Earth Breather
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My teacher taught me two notes per beat. That is the easiest.
Just use a scale, and play two notes per beat.
Just use a scale, and play two notes per beat.
War_Blade
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well one note per beat would be easier but im am getting a bit better at using it now. I can do it at like below 100 but when i turn up the metronome high to much shit starts going on at once and i screw up. On hard licks like this one for instance. I can do scales no problem though.
