War_Blade
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will enough practice get me used to a metronome, or did it come natural to you guys??? this is pissing me off...
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Earth Breather
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No, it did not come naturally to me. But my teacher has been teaching me discipline with a metronome for about 2 months. Start off slow, then build up the speed very slowly.
War_Blade
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its such a pain in the ass espically for someone at my level, because i could be shreding and having fun, instead i gotta sit down and do boring metronome, that i suck at. My main problem is that i am ether spending to much concentration on the metronome an not enough on the riff, so i fuck up the riff, or vice versa and i fuck up on the metronome.
Shredboy
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The only thing that comes natural is playing along with your favorite tunes.. that alone is giving you foundation for counting and learning time. Just go to basics.. tap your foot along to any song.. and count. Dont get frustrated.. and also dont expect to crank up the metronome to 120 or above and start cranking out scales right away.. work slow.. as a few people have stated. Build up.. dont expect immediate results.
Try to have fun is the key thing.. use stuff at first you really enjoy playing.
Try to have fun is the key thing.. use stuff at first you really enjoy playing.
War_Blade
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Yeah, i just wish i learned metronome use when i was just picking up guitar. I mean i can play trilogy suite full speed but i can hardly run through harmonic miner while using a metronome. I just gotta try to relax i guess. I hope i can get this thing down before summer break is over. Its my goal.
...it's not like you learn it on a day, give it some time, and really work it up, some people have the feelin for it, and manage it straight away, but you should really do some repetitive exercises every day and finally you will hopefully get it, except you are one of those guys who aren't able at all 
As you said that you either concentrate too much on the metronome or too much on the riff it's really showcasing that you need to do it a while.
As you said that you either concentrate too much on the metronome or too much on the riff it's really showcasing that you need to do it a while.
I play acoustic guitar for about 8 years and I just can't use a metronome... 
I bought one in my 2nd year or so, but never played with it, it just didn't work because:
1: I was too bad at the song and needed to 'read' it a bit more first
2: The song didn't request an accurate beat, lots of slow down, changing rithm
3: when it wasn't one of those 2, I just was to frustrated after a while and would almost throw the metronome against the wall :s
but I created a bad habbit that keeps me off from playing a song without mistakes since I always just play the song at a variable tempo for practising... I know this sounds a bit confusing, but I just wish I could change that habbit...
Anyway, I won't try to play this crazy thing since I don't play electric (only acoustic and bass (1 year))
I have other wicked things to play on acoustic (I can post the score if you want )
I bought one in my 2nd year or so, but never played with it, it just didn't work because:
1: I was too bad at the song and needed to 'read' it a bit more first
2: The song didn't request an accurate beat, lots of slow down, changing rithm
3: when it wasn't one of those 2, I just was to frustrated after a while and would almost throw the metronome against the wall :s
but I created a bad habbit that keeps me off from playing a song without mistakes since I always just play the song at a variable tempo for practising... I know this sounds a bit confusing, but I just wish I could change that habbit...
Anyway, I won't try to play this crazy thing since I don't play electric (only acoustic and bass (1 year))
I have other wicked things to play on acoustic (I can post the score if you want
)I recently read a pretty interesting article in one of these mags. Author was professor at medical school and specialized in musician treatment and was a musician (flutist) himself. He explained that in order to develop speed on a given passage one would have to start not slowly but rather as fast as possible because otherwise the brain would not "store" the passage in a certain area where the "ballistic movements" are located. In other words: if you play an example too slowly just in order to build it up your brain may consider it not to be stored in the "ballistic" area and because of this you will not (never?) be able to play it as fast as you would physically can, for the brain cannot transfer stored motions between different areas. I find that really thought-provoking!
ABQShredHead
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Yes, I can buy that argument. I pretty much work things that way since I'm not at all disciplined enough to pull out the knocker. I go slow to learn the fingerings, but then try to run through the passage(s) as fast as possible. I can usually nail it within a few trials. But, I've been playing longer than many people have been alive on this forum... Maybe that has something to do with it as well.
well, I just play... some parts slow, but usually, yeah, the fastest I can...
in the end, it lacks, I can assure you that. You become used to not playing the song through (I mean, without mistakes) , and that's a must. In the end, you can play it fast, yeah, but you'll still miss at the difficult parts, because you didn't practice extra for them.
in the end, it lacks, I can assure you that. You become used to not playing the song through (I mean, without mistakes) , and that's a must. In the end, you can play it fast, yeah, but you'll still miss at the difficult parts, because you didn't practice extra for them.
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