Online Metronome
I found a great resource, which is an online metronome. You click to start and stop and adjust the tempo. You can also tap the foot at a certain speed and it will tell you what the tempo is. It is downloadable or you can just run it online. And all for free.
Now, be careful with metronomes. They are a very powerful and important tool in learning to play music. However, you don’t want to perform like you have a metronome in your brain. After you learn a song and get all the accuracy you want, you need to loosen up a little or it won’t feel alive. It will sound like a robot.
Metronomes are also used for click tracks in recording. You lay down a track with clicks if you want to keep all the tracks together. But, like I said, there are problems with sounding too mechanical and losing some feeling this way.
Metronomes are also useful when learning to play really fast passages. You can start at a really slow tempo and gradually increase the speed as you practice over and over and over and over. This helps to ensure that when you get to the really fast speed, you will play with more accuracy and it will be easier.
Another way to use a metronome is to check to make sure you are playing the song at the speed recommended by the composer. It helps to check periodically throughout the song and also to make sure you are counting correctly when learning rhythms. But, don’t hang on to the metronome too long or you’ll sound like a computer midi file.
where is the online metronome
If you click on the red letters that say online metronome at the top of this article, it will take you there. But, this is the link address in case it’s hard to find.
http://www.seventhstring.com/metronome/metronome.html
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