{"id":6531,"date":"2015-03-02T07:01:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T07:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=6531"},"modified":"2015-03-02T07:01:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T07:01:51","slug":"turn-off-your-metronome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/turn-off-your-metronome\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn Off Your Metronome"},"content":{"rendered":"

So… my post from the other day<\/a> was obviously a big one…<\/p>\n

With over 400 comments at last count, it’s going to take a while for me to get through them all, but I will… every last one.<\/p>\n

Obviously there are a lot of commonalities between them, and today I want to handle one in particular that really struck me because it can help a beginner save a LOT of time over the years… and if you’ve been playing for a while it can make you feel a lot better about your course from here.<\/p>\n

It’s very simply – the metronome will not count for you, and if you cannot count, the metronome will only serve to remind you of how bad your timing is, not fix it for you.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I know that sounds kind of harsh, so let me elaborate a little bit…<\/p>\n

In my Beginning Blues Guitar<\/a> course, I often play to a metronome when I’m demonstrating an example…<\/p>\n

That is to keep me in time, and to help you get used to hearing the notes at the right time in relation to a beat.<\/p>\n

But for you, especially if you’ve not really played much before, you need to turn the metronome off and count first. Counting out loud is what teaches you where the notes fall on what beat.<\/p>\n

When you can play the piece of music and the notes fall on the right beat, the metronome simply counts beats for you so that your time is consistent. But if you don’t know what beat a note falls on (because you didn’t count it out) then the metronome won’t mean anything at all to you.<\/p>\n

And the constant beeping or clicking will do little more than remind you that you don’t know what you’re doing – and that’s nothing more than frustrating.<\/p>\n

Count out loud until you don’t need to anymore (and you’ll know when that is.) Then you can add the metronome to increase speed and consistency.<\/p>\n

That’s all for today, but you can bet I’ve got a LOT more coming in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So… my post from the other day was obviously a big one… With over 400 comments at last count, it’s going to take a while for me to get through them all, but I will… every last one. Obviously there are a lot of commonalities between them, and today I want to handle one in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6532,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6531\/revisions\/6532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}