How to Use A Metronome - Practice Technique
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Here is a lesson on how to use the metronome in your practice.
We start by simply clapping simple rhythms with a metronome. Then we try playing something simple on the fiddle: open strings, and then scales. Finally, we try looping small pieces of a tune with the metronome before doing a whole tune with the metronome.
There are lots of free metronome apps. I also sometimes use this youtube channel in lessons: • Video
part one: clapping
quarter, half, eighth notes
patterns: tucka, hoedown triplets
start at 80-100 bpm
part two: fiddling
do all of the above on the fiddle.
then try on a 1 octave D scale.
part three: tunes
try to play very simple tunes with the metronome
start by looping one small part
bile em cabbage
twinkle little star
oh susannah
wabash cannonball
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Alrighty. Play every day, have fun 😀 and thanks for making music 🙏
Now, go fiddle with it...
Jason 🎻
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I'm learning classical violin - but this video was invaluable! My teacher has been driving home the importance of keeping in time, but hasn't given me the tools that this video did to achieve this! Thank you - and subscribed!
Neil O'Rourke We are here for you Neil! Keep up the good work!
Just started using a metronome and discovered i was extending some notes and shortening others. Thanks for the great tips and its back to the clapping for me.
Very good and helpful video. Thank you. Many videos out there just talking about how good and how helpful metronome is. Who cares about it if you trying to learn how to use metronome. You go directly to it. Everything you say is right to the point. I like it very much. Thank you again
Awesome video my kid is 8 and has the idea to where to stop and start and getting the idea. Many thanks.
Thank you for great lesson , my second time watching. Need to start and stay with it.
This lesson is amazing and very precious. Thanks for sharing this. Grateful to you!
I like this video. I've been playing violin for a few years now, and I think my sense of rhythm is my weakest link. The metronome really frustrates me because I'm trying to listen to my intonation and pay attention to my bowing, and in the background I have this ticking, and when I feel myself off beat, then I lose everything. I am trying to do simple exercises with the hope that over the next year, I will be more comfortable practicing my pieces with a metronome. Right now, I'm working on Vocalise, which is super slow, and you nailed it. Slow is HARD. :)
My cello teacher was always telling me that my timing was off. That enfuriated me because she never tells me how she was to expect me to bow in time with the metronome and had even told her that stomping, clapping or pizzicato is a far cry in keeping time with bow!! Thnx video was of great help.
Picco bow, glad to hear this is helping you. Thanks for watching my channel.
Excellent tutorial- thanx
Your vids have helped me improve my fiddle playing so much. If I'm having a difficult practice I remember: Jedi knight technique, slow down. Thank you,
Jenny
Thanks for the tip of sometimes we're not READY for the metronome. I was trying to practice with a metronome from the very beginning when I need to play through it a couple of times and then play with the metronome!!
Thank you! This was immensely helpful!
Thank you from the Uk I need all the help I can get
Happy to help
Thank you for this!! Ive just returned from a one week Bluegrass music school and discovered I cant play inb time; this is just what I need! So used to playing on my own.
+Judy M you're welcome :)
I love seeing on my subscription page, that FiddleHed has a new lesson! Thank you Mr. Jason!
+Linda Davis you're welcome :)
First video clear and I think I got it! Cheers for Fiddle hed!
Good video! I play more classical music but your video applies to ALL types of music. Very helpful!
+Dan Shaskin thanks:)
Fun lesson!
Just what i needed thanks!
Lulu Liz Awesome 👏
thanks, this helped a lot. I didn't know what a long note sounded like with the metronome. I kept ending my bow stroke on the second tick, instead of in the middle of the two.
Thanks Jason! Great lesson!
💕 that was very helpful and well simplified 👍
Thank you!
got a follow-up on the way...
Super sir
Hello!
I have 2 years of violin(learning alone without methods) and never studied tempo. I know how to play really good pieces(maybe 70% good, not bad, but not good) and already know how to translate sheet musics.
Now it all starting get really difficult, so is time to practice a little of tempo.
Nice explanation. Thank you. Subscribed.
Whats the name of the music you used near the end of the video? (Not the metronome cat, before it hahaha). It seems to be irish folk song, and thats the kind of music i really want to play.
Arkansas Traveller
Really good helpful video, Im just getting stuck on the "hoedown" part and how to play that pattern within the beat. Do you have another video elaborating that part?
Hi!
I got a real electron metronome but the battery is dead.
Which iOS or Android app would you recommend?
Cheers.
Sláinte! @fiddleHED
Thanks a lot for this interesting lesson.
I am looking for a few videos of common reels played with the metronome to see how it is properly used.
Is there some sort of chronological order to these you tubes?
Hi. I had so much trouble trying to figure out how to use a metronome and this video was very helpful, but I couldn't figure out why u had more claps when you were clapping to 8ths notes at 120 beats per minute? Could you please explain that would help a lot. Thanks !!!
Eighth notes means you clap twice per beat. j.
Ok thank you so much.
No matter how much I try, I have huge difficulties to play with a metronome ! Is it something that comes easily with the experience or do I have to focus on this point even more before going further more with the fiddle ?
It can take some people a little time. You have to listen to something else while you play. You need that skill when you play with other people. Don't worry about this. Try it again in a few months. Maybe your mind won't be so occupied with other aspects of the fiddle. Play with the Play Along videos. Again, don't worry about this..
Thank you for your advices ! I'll try again later as you suggest, when I'll be more at ease with some songs and violin fingering, bowing, posture...
I would like to buy a metronome because I can never hear the app or computer metronome loudly enough. Do you have any suggestions or recommendations as to which ones are loud enough for fiddle?
+Scuba Cat get an app; use headphones or play through loud speakers
hi dear friend , if i practice 2 hours every day , how long does it take to get 180 ? im in 95 or 100 i think
Everyone's different. Can't say. Just keep at it.
i'm so thankful . i was playing on 55 . after a week i could play 100 . after 3 days , and now i can play 110