Holy moly. Great exercises! If anyone else is here 7 years later, I made some notes and a overview for myself. Exercise 1: Swing 2 & 4 -- [Previous video] -- Set metronome to half speed, and use clicks as 2nd & 4th beat. -- Also use on pracicing new tunes. Exercise 2: Slow Jam (Torture) -- [Previous video] -- Set metronome to 20 bpm. One note in a scale per click. Exercise 3: 4 On 4 Off -- [Previous video] -- Set Time Guru to play 4 beats, then pause for 4 beats. Exercise 4: One, One and Done -- 0:11 -- Set up to hear first beat of the first bar, the first beat of the second, and silence for 2 bars. Exercise 5: Syncopation Nation -- Set Time Guru to play the (2e&)a and the (4e)&. (see the video) Exercise 6: The disorienter -- 4:47 -- Variation of exercise 1. Set Time Guru to click beat 2, and try to keep time with this. Exercise 7: Song form exercise -- 7:06 -- Just the downbeats in a 12 bar blues. Set to click first beat in bar 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 9. First 3 blog post: somuchsound.blogspot.com/2012/10/improve-your-groove-7-metronome-tricks.html Last 4 blog post: somuchsound.blogspot.com/2013/02/improve-your-groove-part-2-7-metronome.html
The great, or probably the greatest lesson for all of those who want to feel and keep rythm. And this is crucial for each musician, so this lessons are crucial for each musician, or the one, who wants to became so. Sean, thanks a LOT. P.S. BTW I can't imagine, what are those two jerks, who set dislike fort this lesson? Or, maybe they have tried to repeat after Sean and failed. :)
Thanks so much for providing these hard yet enjoyable exercises! I wish at least one of my three drum teachers so far had recommended this kind of advanced metronome use. It seems just a couple of weeks of practicing like this improves your time much more than years of traditional metronome practice, and most importantly, it's SO MUCH FUN! :) Great job, Sean, keep up the awesome work! Matt form Montenegro
super stuff, thanks.. I'll be spending some "time" to nail down the 1st vid properly before graduating to this one - you've got all the hallmarks of a real studio pro! thanks again for sharing.
Thanks, brother. Thats a smooth lesson. Really appreciate your taking the time to share it. I’m headed straight to yer blog and then dusting off the metronome.
Fantastic stuff. I really liked all of these. Another one my friend showed me was: setting up a 5/4 rhythm, with the beat on the one. Then play over that as repeating 4/4 rhythms. So the beat ends up on 1 of bar 1, 2 of bar 2, 3 of bar 3, 4 of bar 4, silent through bar 5, then on the 1 again for bar 6.
Great! I'm applying for Oberlin and the clarinet teacher said he can't accept me if I don't improve my rhythm (don't worry I'm a junior I have time), so this is a BIG help!
+Mauriziobarenboim You'll be fine. But there really is no replacement for working with a metronome. The problem is making it fun and not a chore. As long as you're creative with the use of it, you'll enjoy the process and do it more. Good luck at Oberlin!
I'm not even involved in this exchange and I must say that's pretty awesome of you. Great exercises man, you're like that really great VHS tape I never returned to the library in 1997- without the guilt or late fee.
Sean, I am using this as part of my drum practice and I am finding it quite helpful. Thanks for taking "time" putting these 2 Metronome videos together.. All The Best and Thanks Again.. Eric
Absolutely awesome videos! It's easy to find lesson videos on just playing or soloing but not a lot of videos on unique ways to use the metronome and to work on timing technique. I can't waitron try these! New subscriber!
Thanks Sean for sharing your skill-building ideas. After seeing these, I had the idea that a (scarily) useful learning tool would count you in, and then randomly hit some small subset of beats. The user would be able to set things like num of measures, num taps, and such. I headed to Avi Bortnick's site, and indeed Time Guru has a random mode (video shows how it works). (And for anyone who likes melodic blues-rock-funk, Avi's video "Rolling Pin" is quite fun to jam to.)
+Fernando Lavado I use one on my Mac called Metronome that is free but you'd have a harder time doing some of the more advanced exercises with it. I imagine a Google search will turn up something. You might try to get a software sequencing program or drum machine as that will be easier to the later exercises with.
Because you asked nicely, I transcribed what I played on the video and made a chart with TAB. It's now available at the end of the article on my blog. You can find the address to the blog listed in the About section just below the video. The url is also in the video itself. Enjoy.
Great lesson! There's not enough emphasis placed on the study of rhythm (imho). Any suggestions on where to find more of this kind of stuff to work on? If not I guess I can always work out some ideas on my own. Thanks for sharing this kind of approach at using a metronome to instill better time and feel! Brilliant.
Sean Driscoll Absolutely! We (guitarists) spend at least 80 to 90+ percent of our time backing singers or single note instruments (horns. sax etc.) ....but too many lessons on how to play lead guitar!!! I'm glad I noticed this fairly early on and had a good teacher whip me into rhythmic shape! lol Which I still need more work on after about 35yrs. ! (I added you to my google+ circle; hope that's okay by you?)
Great lesson!! Thank you. Do you have any thoughts on alternatives to sub-dividing beats with numbers? For instance subdividing beats with a drum groove, melody, words/poems, dance or using Indian rhythm language. I'm a primary school teacher and am interested in how some of the ideas/exercise top notch musicians like yourself could be made more accessible to them. Thanks again for the lesson!
+Ben Brooklyn In Western music we do have word and syllable schemes for subdividing ("1-e-and-a, 2-e-and-a" etc. for 16th notes "tri-pl-et" for triplets) but they're nowhere near as developed as the Indian classical tradition.
It's so useful and saves me having to write out stuff like this in Guitar Pro. If you are interested, I have a guitar app out too called Guitarmageddon. Thanks again!
Hi promiscuite -- I'm sorry I don't. I did a little googling but most of what I came up with was simple metronome programs. A free drum machine might be a better option. Try Hammerhead Rhythm Station or orDrumbox (google them). Hopefully they'll help you out.
Jazzer caster Thanks -- I had to think about your question for second and do the math... That's right! I was using an app that I had chosen a 4/4 bar for but muted beats 1, 3 and 4 but you could absolutely just set a metronome to 55bpm and hear it as beat 2 in a 4/4 bar and it would be the exact same concept.
Thanks for the compliment! I'm still playing and teaching! Just no extra time to run a blog unfortunately. I'm a professional musician and that takes up most of my time, though now I have a lot more time on my hands like most people. You can keep up with me here if you're interested: instagram.com/somuchsound/
When you first start out, absolutely. But you’ll be surprised how quickly you begin to feel the time if you are conscious of it. You start to feel longer groupings of bars - 4, 8, 12 and 16 bars or even more.
@@SeanDriscollSoMuchSound Im practicing counting it out loud, but its not consistent and i can only play scales and syncopated chord rhythms when practicing with the click at 20 BPM, or the click only playing on the syncopations. Been practicing for 2 weeks now but no improvement at all though, hope i can get better and not need have to count out loud anymore, its getting really tiring!
troy low it takes very much patience and you have to count ... i am already more than 3 years playing,i don't count as it comes naturally but i face some problem during some songs...and i need to count it... so practice first with metronomes and then it's automatic
Thanks for asking -- I do have a couple videos planned but being a full-time musician means crazy hours and I'm not great at managing them. I'll definitely make a few more though.
For a long time You do not record new videos,what is the reason? What do You think about recording exercise from William Leavitt books? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leavitt (in my country, these books are not available besides, I can not read notes fluently)
Thanks for writing. I haven't done a video for awhile because I'm a freelance musician and the bulk of my time is spent either practicing, getting new gigs, playing gigs or preparing music for gigs. It's really time consuming. With that said, I do have some posts on my blog coming shortly and a few new videos regarding BeBop language using Charlie Parker solos as guitar material. Thanks for your interest, I really do appreciate it.
Al Di Meola has a good short video on here about keeping time where he talks about playing against the time at the 2:33 mark : ruclips.net/video/2HIY_IPIvCI/видео.html
I am a drummer and I wish all guitarists in the world would learn from these videos!
As a Guitar player i feel you..
i'm a guitarist but i don't need these as my sense of time is impeccable
You are a drummer...and you speed up, play fills in the middle of a verse and are unable to play behind the beat
Holy moly. Great exercises! If anyone else is here 7 years later, I made some notes and a overview for myself.
Exercise 1: Swing 2 & 4 -- [Previous video]
-- Set metronome to half speed, and use clicks as 2nd & 4th beat.
-- Also use on pracicing new tunes.
Exercise 2: Slow Jam (Torture) -- [Previous video]
-- Set metronome to 20 bpm. One note in a scale per click.
Exercise 3: 4 On 4 Off -- [Previous video]
-- Set Time Guru to play 4 beats, then pause for 4 beats.
Exercise 4: One, One and Done -- 0:11
-- Set up to hear first beat of the first bar, the first beat of the second, and silence for 2 bars.
Exercise 5: Syncopation Nation
-- Set Time Guru to play the (2e&)a and the (4e)&. (see the video)
Exercise 6: The disorienter -- 4:47
-- Variation of exercise 1. Set Time Guru to click beat 2, and try to keep time with this.
Exercise 7: Song form exercise -- 7:06
-- Just the downbeats in a 12 bar blues. Set to click first beat in bar 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 9.
First 3 blog post:
somuchsound.blogspot.com/2012/10/improve-your-groove-7-metronome-tricks.html
Last 4 blog post:
somuchsound.blogspot.com/2013/02/improve-your-groove-part-2-7-metronome.html
Much love and appreciation
that was the coolest 12-bar blues i've ever heard at the end there
The great, or probably the greatest lesson for all of those who want to feel and keep rythm. And this is crucial for each musician, so this lessons are crucial for each musician, or the one, who wants to became so. Sean, thanks a LOT.
P.S. BTW I can't imagine, what are those two jerks, who set dislike fort this lesson? Or, maybe they have tried to repeat after Sean and failed. :)
+Ред Фокс Thank you my friend, kind of you to say.
Well this definitely makes using the metronome more interesting ...
Glad you think so!
One of the most inspiring lesson I've came across on RUclips
you remind me of my guitar teacher I had during my jazz studys
+michel roy Thank you!
Thanks a ton Sean
Thanks so much for providing these hard yet enjoyable exercises! I wish at least one of my three drum teachers so far had recommended this kind of advanced metronome use. It seems just a couple of weeks of practicing like this improves your time much more than years of traditional metronome practice, and most importantly, it's SO MUCH FUN! :) Great job, Sean, keep up the awesome work! Matt form Montenegro
I still watch this video at least once a month. Nailed it.
super stuff, thanks.. I'll be spending some "time" to nail down the 1st vid properly before graduating to this one - you've got all the hallmarks of a real studio pro! thanks again for sharing.
As a kazoo pro studio musician this is just golden
Thanks, brother. Thats a smooth lesson. Really appreciate your taking the time to share it. I’m headed straight to yer blog and then dusting off the metronome.
Fantastic stuff. I really liked all of these. Another one my friend showed me was: setting up a 5/4 rhythm, with the beat on the one. Then play over that as repeating 4/4 rhythms. So the beat ends up on 1 of bar 1, 2 of bar 2, 3 of bar 3, 4 of bar 4, silent through bar 5, then on the 1 again for bar 6.
That is a great idea, love it.
Great! I'm applying for Oberlin and the clarinet teacher said he can't accept me if I don't improve my rhythm (don't worry I'm a junior I have time), so this is a BIG help!
+Mauriziobarenboim You'll be fine. But there really is no replacement for working with a metronome. The problem is making it fun and not a chore. As long as you're creative with the use of it, you'll enjoy the process and do it more. Good luck at Oberlin!
thank you very much it is very helpful!
i'm the metro gnome
wonderful excersices
Thank you!
These are great, thank very much!
I guess this triggered me more to start learning Jazz too. Thanks!
I'm not even involved in this exchange and I must say that's pretty awesome of you. Great exercises man, you're like that really great VHS tape I never returned to the library in 1997- without the guilt or late fee.
I wish you could be my teacher!
Sean,
I am using this as part of my drum practice and I am finding it quite helpful.
Thanks for taking "time" putting these 2 Metronome videos together..
All The Best and Thanks Again..
Eric
+Cheektowga I'm really glad to hear these exercises are useful to other instruments.
Excellent.
Thanks for the lesson! Good sense of timing and feel you have there. The tricks explained are certainly applicable to any instruments.
+J Music Studio That's kind of you to say, thank you.
Great lesson man. Thank you.
Very clear and helpful video. Many thanks !
This might be my first ever youtube comment. Great videos, exactly what I was looking for!
Great tips Sean. Thanks a lot!
Good lessons...thanks. Some trumpet player named Dizzy once said "Rhythm is King!" But what would he know? :-)
Excellent !
Great lessons!thanks man, hope to learn your new lessons.
Wow, 'Syncopation Nation' is tough. Well, all of these on this 2nd vid are. Thanks they will help. I'm excited to get into them.
+Trevor Marty Trust me, I know. But if you only worked with the exercises on the first video, that would be enough material for the next 20 years.
That's gold brother! Keep up the good work!
These videos are great! thanks man
Yes.
Fabulous video thank you for sharing :)
Brilliant. Thank you.
Thanks for these vids!! The swing examples have really helped me immensely.
fantastic, Thanks a lot for the exerxcices, Thanks
excellent! Thank you man
bingo. just what i'm looking for. thanks!
Great great lesson ! Thanks for sharing it !
+Sergio Morel You're welcome!
Absolutely awesome videos! It's easy to find lesson videos on just playing or soloing but not a lot of videos on unique ways to use the metronome and to work on timing technique. I can't waitron try these! New subscriber!
+Tyler Richardson Thank you!
Great stuff man, thank you.
This guy kills.
incredibly helpful--thank u much
your videos are great! consistently good quality content. thanks!
Thanks very helpful
thanks. great vid.
Thanks Sean for sharing your skill-building ideas. After seeing these, I had the idea that a (scarily) useful learning tool would count you in, and then randomly hit some small subset of beats. The user would be able to set things like num of measures, num taps, and such. I headed to Avi Bortnick's site, and indeed Time Guru has a random mode (video shows how it works). (And for anyone who likes melodic blues-rock-funk, Avi's video "Rolling Pin" is quite fun to jam to.)
Cliodyn Cycwatch yeah-- Avi is a great player and I can't recommend Time Guru enough. It's a great tool.
Alright thank you, I'll be looking for those programs
very cool!
So inspiring
Great exercises. 'Would probably help with READING rhythms as well. I know that's not the point of this, though.
Yes bring discipline to reading using strict tempo, slower tempo for new passages learning to read.
wow!!!
Simply great lesson, thanks! question, any suggestion for another metronome program for pc? I have no phone :/ thanks!!
+Fernando Lavado I use one on my Mac called Metronome that is free but you'd have a harder time doing some of the more advanced exercises with it. I imagine a Google search will turn up something. You might try to get a software sequencing program or drum machine as that will be easier to the later exercises with.
Nice tips! Time Guru works on a MacBookPro as well or only on Iphone?
Because you asked nicely, I transcribed what I played on the video and made a chart with TAB. It's now available at the end of the article on my blog. You can find the address to the blog listed in the About section just below the video. The url is also in the video itself. Enjoy.
Great lesson! There's not enough emphasis placed on the study of rhythm (imho). Any suggestions on where to find more of this kind of stuff to work on? If not I guess I can always work out some ideas on my own. Thanks for sharing this kind of approach at using a metronome to instill better time and feel! Brilliant.
+Glenn Michael Thompson I agree there's not enough emphasis on rhythm, especially for guitarists.
Sean Driscoll Absolutely! We (guitarists) spend at least 80 to 90+ percent of our time backing singers or single note instruments (horns. sax etc.) ....but too many lessons on how to play lead guitar!!! I'm glad I noticed this fairly early on and had a good teacher whip me into rhythmic shape! lol Which I still need more work on after about 35yrs. ! (I added you to my google+ circle; hope that's okay by you?)
Great lesson!! Thank you. Do you have any thoughts on alternatives to sub-dividing beats with numbers? For instance subdividing beats with a drum groove, melody, words/poems, dance or using Indian rhythm language. I'm a primary school teacher and am interested in how some of the ideas/exercise top notch musicians like yourself could be made more accessible to them. Thanks again for the lesson!
+Ben Brooklyn In Western music we do have word and syllable schemes for subdividing ("1-e-and-a, 2-e-and-a" etc. for 16th notes "tri-pl-et" for triplets) but they're nowhere near as developed as the Indian classical tradition.
Hi,
great exercices!
I was wondering if you knew an advanced metronome program for windows as I don't own a smartphone?
Thanks
Hello!! Can I contact you on private in some way? Because I want to ask you some questions. It would be much much appreciated!!
Progresion del final
Excellent lesson. Just bought TimeGuru, very useful! Is this your app?
Thanks Shred. TimeGuru is not my app and it is killer. It was created by the guitar player Avi Bortnick.
It's so useful and saves me having to write out stuff like this in Guitar Pro. If you are interested, I have a guitar app out too called Guitarmageddon. Thanks again!
Hi promiscuite -- I'm sorry I don't. I did a little googling but most of what I came up with was simple metronome programs. A free drum machine might be a better option. Try Hammerhead Rhythm Station or orDrumbox (google them). Hopefully they'll help you out.
Please make a jazz guitar scale for melody
Awesome lessons mate! For number 6 you could just put the metronome on 55bpm and hear it as beat 2 in a 4/4 bar right?
Jazzer caster Thanks -- I had to think about your question for second and do the math... That's right! I was using an app that I had chosen a 4/4 bar for but muted beats 1, 3 and 4 but you could absolutely just set a metronome to 55bpm and hear it as beat 2 in a 4/4 bar and it would be the exact same concept.
Hey Sean, thanks for the reply, ha, that's good to know! thanks for sharing these ideas!
Any chance we could grab a chord chart of that last 12 bar progression off you? Maybe even chord frettings too, if that's not pushing my luck? :-\ ;-)
Wow great exercises. What happened to this guy?
Thanks for the compliment! I'm still playing and teaching! Just no extra time to run a blog unfortunately. I'm a professional musician and that takes up most of my time, though now I have a lot more time on my hands like most people. You can keep up with me here if you're interested: instagram.com/somuchsound/
Upload more videos!
Sean I really like your style. Do you ever give Skype lessons?
I do -- you can contact me through my blog which is mentioned up above or on my website, seandriscoll dot net.
when u play, do u count in your head?
When you first start out, absolutely. But you’ll be surprised how quickly you begin to feel the time if you are conscious of it. You start to feel longer groupings of bars - 4, 8, 12 and 16 bars or even more.
@@SeanDriscollSoMuchSound Im practicing counting it out loud, but its not consistent and i can only play scales and syncopated chord rhythms when practicing with the click at 20 BPM, or the click only playing on the syncopations. Been practicing for 2 weeks now but no improvement at all though, hope i can get better and not need have to count out loud anymore, its getting really tiring!
troy low it takes very much patience and you have to count ...
i am already more than 3 years playing,i don't count as it comes naturally but i face some problem during some songs...and i need to count it...
so practice first with metronomes and then it's automatic
why don't you make videos anymore
Thanks for asking -- I do have a couple videos planned but being a full-time musician means crazy hours and I'm not great at managing them. I'll definitely make a few more though.
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For a long time You do not record new videos,what is the reason?
What do You think about recording exercise from William Leavitt books?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leavitt
(in my country, these books are not available
besides, I can not read notes fluently)
Thanks for writing. I haven't done a video for awhile because I'm a freelance musician and the bulk of my time is spent either practicing, getting new gigs, playing gigs or preparing music for gigs. It's really time consuming. With that said, I do have some posts on my blog coming shortly and a few new videos regarding BeBop language using Charlie Parker solos as guitar material. Thanks for your interest, I really do appreciate it.
why not do this on a piano?
Ever heard of a concept called "opportunity cost"?
Is an hour spent doing this better than an hour spent otherwise?
Creabsley
I'm a fan of any of these kinds of exercises where you have to keep track of the time while being creative.
Al Di Meola has a good short video on here about keeping time where he talks about playing against the time at the 2:33 mark : ruclips.net/video/2HIY_IPIvCI/видео.html
Thanks -- that's a great example of keeping the time while playing around it.
A simple 12bb? Haha sure
Thanks!