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I am certain there have been 6 billion of these before but I think its probably a tool that a lot of us dont know many different ways to use them. If you would, could you guys throw some creative ways in which you use them down in a reply to this? I generally only use them to run my 3 notes per string scale patterns or what not with very little knowledge of what is going on other than start slow and get the notes right, then speed up gradually. What other ways can we use these? Or even is there some cool links that we might not know about?

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Some nice exercises that are good for your timing are having the metronome click on anything BUT the beats.

 

Examples:

 

click on the upbeats

click on every 2nd/3rd/4th 16th of every beat/every other beat/only one beat

or same thing with triplets : click on the 2nd/3rd triplet eigth note of every beat

 

Those exercises are very difficult at first, but they can help you improve your timing!

 

Another thing that I practice these days with a metronome is : I play a certain pattern (in my case it's a 4 note pattern) and I set the metronome to a slow speed (60 or slower) thne I play that pattern in triplets, after a few times I go to the next subdivision which is 16th notes, then quintuplets, sixtuplets and septuplets.

This exercises also includes a nice accent shifting.

 

I run that through regular "pseudo"-chromatic fingerings like 1234, 1243, and all the many permutations thereof (there's 24 of them in total if I'm not mistaken). Good for technique AND timing.

 

If you get bored with those patterns you can apply the very same concept to scale patterns or arpeggio patterns which provides more pracitcal use thant the 1234 permutations.

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What else do you do besides practice scales? Play songs? Improvise? Do it ALL to a metronome. Basically it should be on all the time. Otherwise Santuzzo gave some fine ideas for how to better use it.

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click on the upbeats

click on every 2nd/3rd/4th 16th of every beat/every other beat/only one beat

or same thing with triplets : click on the 2nd/3rd triplet eigth note of every beat


Those exercises are very difficult at first, but they can help you improve your timing!






I knew my timing sucked before attempting this but after this :facepalm: I gotz some serious work to do. Thanks for the input fellas.

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