Another excellent video Brad. My trombone teacher at ESM emphasized using the metronome as the "+" of the beat similar to your approach of the back beat. Trying to get started playing a simple scale in whole notes was certainly challenging at first but it helped to think of the metronome as a hi-hat and the process certainly sharpened my rhythmic accuracy and awareness. The trusty "Dr. Beat" metronome (I'm dating myself) was great for dialing in the subdivisions and then muting the front half of the beat!
Absolutely agree! And you’re less likely to practice and learn wrong notes but going too fast too many times. If you practice wrong notes/rhythms/etc, you might learn them!
Comment on Level 8. At one point I was feeling like a scale-whippersnapper until I took some jazz-musician's advice to use the metronome as a substitute for a snare drum (2 and 4). Talk about a humbling monkey wrench. Thanks to this video, I'm going to order another slice of humble pie since I 'forgot' about this. Yeah... level 10 is psyching me out already! Nice "the lick" reference... ( 10:11 )
I've heard applications of level 10 in electronic music with an instrument part being doubled on a lower octave playing a dotted 8th behind and I always liked challenging myself to count the pulse and try to sing along with the late melody.
So useful! I’ve been struggling with a syncopation piece because I get distracted by the metronome clicks , sight reading and finger placement. I’ll try out your methods on a simpler piece before trying syncopation, thanks!
Syncopation can be so difficult! Also consider playing slowly, with rubato, without the metronome and make sure you understand the rhythm first. Then tighten up the time and get more strict with a steady beat without rubato. Then add the metronome to make sure you’re actually doing it right. Good luck!
Nice! Those tempos are extreme, but I don’t know why so many metronome makers fall in the same relatively narrow range. There is sometimes need to go slower than 40 or faster than 240. Way to go, Yamaha!
It's worth saying 4 and 6 are the same in a way. The end goal isn't necessarily "to play faster". It's to play comfortably and sound good at a range of tempos.
They’re related, but I think they’re definitely different. Sometimes you don’t need to work a price up to tempo, so level 4 isn’t necessary, but it’s still wise to play at a variety of tempos to make sure you’re comfortable within a range.
Here's another one. The disappearing metronome! On guitar it would be plucking a muted string so that the completely overlap. You can go extra nerdy and record yourself doing this to better self evaluate. Got it from Justin Guitar.
Hey, I’ve been loving your videos man. I just wanted to ask though if you may have accidentally made your 2nd to last video private within your music theory playlist.
Hey there! Glad you’re enjoying! That was just an old draft of another video that got uploaded with corrections and tweaks. (The 5 levels of improvisation video). I’ve removed it. Thanks for letting me know!
Learning to play the violin. I quickly found the traditional metronome is not loud enough as the violin is so close to the ear. With a metronome app I can increase the volume. Plus I have features like setting different time signatures.
Yes and no, in my opinion. It’ll force you to stay in time like a metronome does, sure. But a playalong will typically also include some indication for how the song should sound - either by an accompaniment playing similar rhythms or even an example recording. Studying with a metronome keeps you in time but also has you do all the other steps (like reading rhythm) by yourself. This is a great skill for becoming more independent when you need to learn a piece that doesn’t have any recordings or playalongs.
They’re complimentary but different tools. You might use one of the metronome techniques in the video in a piece from TomPlay that’s really challenging and you need to slow down to the extreme, slower than the accompaniment will go. And as otherwise mentioned, even with 80 000 scores, there’s lots of pieces and exercises that are not on TomPlay that you’ll want to use a metronome to work on. And many of the. Ore advanced metronome exercises are technical time exercises that just need to be practiced in isolation. So I’d say they’re different but complimentary tools!
They say it’s really important to keep the sense of beats in general, up, down and mid beats, is it really that important and to what extent is it important like just keeping the beat sense or also keeping the sense of up and down etc beats? And more importantly how to be able to do each naturally?
That takes a lot of practice and effort at counting while thinking about it! Eventually it becomes unconscious and automatic, but there’s no hack to just turn on perfect beat awareness. Spend a few weeks playing long tones and counting carefully, out loud if you can. Make it part of your warmup. Use the metronome. It’ll happen!
You can ask me! If it’s quick, I’ll answer here. If it’s more in depth, we could set up some lessons. Otherwise, the music theory subreddit can be pretty useful. Or other music communities there.
Like “in the pocket”? All the things I talked about before and after. It means in a groove, playing with good time/rhythm, a good “beat”, strong synergy among the musicians. Ya dig?
It’s a metaphor. IE It fits. It feels good. It lines up. Its satisfying. It’s in the pocket. Not being in the pocket means not groovy, not in time, not lining up beats at the same time, rushing, dragging, not in control of a consistent tempo. It doesn’t fit. It doesn’t feel good. It’s not satisfying. It’s not in the pocket.
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You mean for half tempo, like in level 5? Literally just think of the click as being aligned with the eighth (rather than the quarter, like you usually do). In this case the quarter would get two clicks, because a quarter is worth two eighths.
@@BradHarrison thank you but how would you play eighth notes using a metronome once you get to non half tempo? because the eighth notes are off the click of the metronome and idk how to play them that way
Subdivide. Two notes for every click. Get your teacher or a musician to show you. Or we can set up some lessons if you like. Check my site to get in touch. Www.bradharrison.ca/lessons
It’s impossible to nail the pacing for everyone. Some people will always want the video to go slower while others just want you to get on with it. Which part would you have liked me to spend more time on? Where did you get lost?
Would you like to work on any of this with me, one-on-one? I teach lessons online! Visit www.bradharrison.ca/lessons to learn more and set up a time!
@@BradHarrison sometime in the future
Another excellent video Brad. My trombone teacher at ESM emphasized using the metronome as the "+" of the beat similar to your approach of the back beat. Trying to get started playing a simple scale in whole notes was certainly challenging at first but it helped to think of the metronome as a hi-hat and the process certainly sharpened my rhythmic accuracy and awareness. The trusty "Dr. Beat" metronome (I'm dating myself) was great for dialing in the subdivisions and then muting the front half of the beat!
Isn’t it so tough? Such a good exercise though.
Also, dr beat!! I remember that thing. I loved playing with voice mode. So silly.
Slow and steady will always get you to the end more quickly and proficiently that any other way.
Absolutely agree! And you’re less likely to practice and learn wrong notes but going too fast too many times. If you practice wrong notes/rhythms/etc, you might learn them!
When you're a kid: "Ugh... the metronome 😩"
When you're an adult: "WHERE'S MY METRONOME??"
Haha. True!
Thank you for sharing these insights Brad! 🎶
And many thanks to you!
shut ur yap
I used his 3000% to learn my scales. It was brilliant! 👍👍👍👍
I’m so glad! Isn’t it almost unreasonably effective? Many people just want to skip those middle steps.
I taught this in my orchestra class.
Thanks, I needed that!
Glad you enjoyed!
no you didnt
Comment on Level 8. At one point I was feeling like a scale-whippersnapper until I took some jazz-musician's advice to use the metronome as a substitute for a snare drum (2 and 4). Talk about a humbling monkey wrench. Thanks to this video, I'm going to order another slice of humble pie since I 'forgot' about this. Yeah... level 10 is psyching me out already!
Nice "the lick" reference... ( 10:11 )
It can be so disorienting! Great workout though.
last (or second) triplet partial of beat 2, one click every 2 bars is a great test of internal time and mental focus ... and ego integrity lol.
Isn’t it such a good work out? So challenging.
Awesome as always
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I've heard applications of level 10 in electronic music with an instrument part being doubled on a lower octave playing a dotted 8th behind and I always liked challenging myself to count the pulse and try to sing along with the late melody.
Intense. Good exercise!
So useful! I’ve been struggling with a syncopation piece because I get distracted by the metronome clicks , sight reading and finger placement. I’ll try out your methods on a simpler piece before trying syncopation, thanks!
Syncopation can be so difficult! Also consider playing slowly, with rubato, without the metronome and make sure you understand the rhythm first. Then tighten up the time and get more strict with a steady beat without rubato. Then add the metronome to make sure you’re actually doing it right. Good luck!
I found this 240 bpm limit was a real pain. My new piano, Yamaha YUS5-TA3 has a metronome clicks from 10 to 500 bpm.
Nice! Those tempos are extreme, but I don’t know why so many metronome makers fall in the same relatively narrow range. There is sometimes need to go slower than 40 or faster than 240. Way to go, Yamaha!
It's worth saying 4 and 6 are the same in a way. The end goal isn't necessarily "to play faster". It's to play comfortably and sound good at a range of tempos.
They’re related, but I think they’re definitely different. Sometimes you don’t need to work a price up to tempo, so level 4 isn’t necessary, but it’s still wise to play at a variety of tempos to make sure you’re comfortable within a range.
I like metronomes that provide you an empty bar from time to time, so you can learn to count the silence accurately.
Ooh yeah. Random bar breaks. Great feature!
I would like that kind of metronome. Do you have any suggestions where I can find one.
Time Trainer does it!
apps.apple.com/ca/app/time-trainer-metronome/id502491350
Here's another one. The disappearing metronome! On guitar it would be plucking a muted string so that the completely overlap. You can go extra nerdy and record yourself doing this to better self evaluate.
Got it from Justin Guitar.
Oh that’s a good one!
Holy shit. I spent so long getting to a point where I could do level 8. Didn't know it was that easy ahah
shut up lil bro
Good Breakdown 🎶🎶👍
Hey, I’ve been loving your videos man. I just wanted to ask though if you may have accidentally made your 2nd to last video private within your music theory playlist.
Hey there! Glad you’re enjoying!
That was just an old draft of another video that got uploaded with corrections and tweaks. (The 5 levels of improvisation video). I’ve removed it. Thanks for letting me know!
Learning to play the violin. I quickly found the traditional metronome is not loud enough as the violin is so close to the ear.
With a metronome app I can increase the volume. Plus I have features like setting different time signatures.
I had this problem when I was younger too! It’s much better now with apps and headphones and speakers.
How does a metronome compare against play along? For example Tom Play. Doesn't that provide everything the metronome does?
Yes and no, in my opinion. It’ll force you to stay in time like a metronome does, sure. But a playalong will typically also include some indication for how the song should sound - either by an accompaniment playing similar rhythms or even an example recording. Studying with a metronome keeps you in time but also has you do all the other steps (like reading rhythm) by yourself. This is a great skill for becoming more independent when you need to learn a piece that doesn’t have any recordings or playalongs.
They’re complimentary but different tools. You might use one of the metronome techniques in the video in a piece from TomPlay that’s really challenging and you need to slow down to the extreme, slower than the accompaniment will go. And as otherwise mentioned, even with 80 000 scores, there’s lots of pieces and exercises that are not on TomPlay that you’ll want to use a metronome to work on. And many of the. Ore advanced metronome exercises are technical time exercises that just need to be practiced in isolation. So I’d say they’re different but complimentary tools!
They say it’s really important to keep the sense of beats in general, up, down and mid beats, is it really that important and to what extent is it important like just keeping the beat sense or also keeping the sense of up and down etc beats? And more importantly how to be able to do each naturally?
Absolutely! I cover a few things to help work in this in level 1.
@@BradHarrison I actually want to know more of how to work to be able to keep the beats sense without having to think about it?
That takes a lot of practice and effort at counting while thinking about it! Eventually it becomes unconscious and automatic, but there’s no hack to just turn on perfect beat awareness. Spend a few weeks playing long tones and counting carefully, out loud if you can. Make it part of your warmup. Use the metronome. It’ll happen!
@@BradHarrison And how to build the sense of beats divisions, like how to know even if we’re correctly performing the beat divisions or not.
Do you have a teacher? Could be something to talk to them about.
TE tuner (Tonal Energy tuner) has a great metronome feature to turn off specific beats. No math.
Down side, it is ~$4
$4?! Sounds well worth it.
I feel like you should make a discord, I have so many questions and I wish I could ask a group of people
You can ask me! If it’s quick, I’ll answer here. If it’s more in depth, we could set up some lessons. Otherwise, the music theory subreddit can be pretty useful. Or other music communities there.
When will rhythm part 3 come ?
shut up
What is a pocket please explain
Like “in the pocket”? All the things I talked about before and after. It means in a groove, playing with good time/rhythm, a good “beat”, strong synergy among the musicians. Ya dig?
@BradHarrison define pocket
Not being in the pocket
Wht is pocket in beats
It’s a metaphor. IE It fits. It feels good. It lines up. Its satisfying. It’s in the pocket.
Not being in the pocket means not groovy, not in time, not lining up beats at the same time, rushing, dragging, not in control of a consistent tempo. It doesn’t fit. It doesn’t feel good. It’s not satisfying. It’s not in the pocket.
This is perfect
No its not
I recommend Piano Marvel and a really great teacher.
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Mama might want to expand her practice techniques.
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how do you use a metronome with eighths or sixteenths?
You mean for half tempo, like in level 5? Literally just think of the click as being aligned with the eighth (rather than the quarter, like you usually do). In this case the quarter would get two clicks, because a quarter is worth two eighths.
@@BradHarrison thank you but how would you play eighth notes using a metronome once you get to non half tempo? because the eighth notes are off the click of the metronome and idk how to play them that way
Subdivide. Two notes for every click. Get your teacher or a musician to show you. Or we can set up some lessons if you like. Check my site to get in touch. Www.bradharrison.ca/lessons
@@BradHarrison what do you mean by subdivide?
I do that to 10... But not 5.. maybe that'll help my 16ths... Thanks
11. "Noodle" improvise to the metronom
3:45
BAHAHAHAH very funny ur rlly unfunny my guy
Metronome - killer of the musicians.
Because it’s hard at first?
Learning to play with a metronome makes you a "killer musician".
@@m4mammoth Because it’s hard at first?
My eMetronome can actually randomly silence beats / bars...
Sounds cool ! Which one is it ?
I think you scared more people away from the metronome with your rushed explanation!
It’s impossible to nail the pacing for everyone. Some people will always want the video to go slower while others just want you to get on with it.
Which part would you have liked me to spend more time on? Where did you get lost?
Didn't scare me away. Didn't feel rushed at all.
Excellent stuff 👏
reallly bad stuff