![]() Many would argue that playing only to a metronome can take out some of the fun we should be feeling while practicing. Ding … Click … click … click … Ding … Can You Say Monotonous? Here are five reasons you should (sometimes) put your metronome aside and play with a real drummer instead. With all of that said, are there times when you should turn the metronome off and develop your time another way, a more musical and challenging way than using a metronome to practice? We’d like to think there is. Without an understanding of musical time, we cannot fully understand music. Our ability as musicians or even just casual listeners to recognize distinct patterns in the expression of time and all of its variations is paramount to our response. And, how this time is expressed-be it with the mechanical precision of a metronome or through human understanding and intuition-has long been the defining element of how and why we respond to music. When we talk about “rhythm” what we are essentially discussing is how musicians interpret and perform musical time. It’s an interpretation of the absolute perfection of the time and what we all do in this interpretation is what makes all the difference musically. So, we have to understand that musical time is much more than a precise, mechanical, and absolute concept. ![]() What we are talking about is the interpretation of musical time, something that all musicians (and drummers, in particular) do when they play. Are they absolutely, metronomically perfect? Unless it’s a drum machine or, even worse, edited to line up with the grid, then the answer is clearly “no”. Just consider your favorite drum track or even drum loop. When we speak of concepts like “groove” and “rhythm” we aren’t thinking of robotic precision by any means. It’s one of the first tools you use as you take up an instrument and one you certainly continue to use no matter how many years you continue to play.īut musical rhythm is clearly more than absolute perfect time. That perfection of time, punctuated by an endless stream of clicks at any tempo you desire, will sharpen your time and ability to lock in with it. ![]() There’s no better way to improve your sense of time. Let’s start off this article by getting this out of the way. Bob Marley: “Get Up Stand Up” at 77 bpm.Metallica “Sad but True” Final Album Track. ![]()
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