Jeff Berlin be damned, I like a metronome

[justinbass]

I recently started playing with a metronome to learn harder/faster parts. I take a riff that I can't play at speed, and play it at 100bmp, than 104, 108, ect until I have it down at 20 bpm faster than I need to know it. After that, playing it at speed seems easy and slow. I just spent the last hour playing the same 4 bars over and over and over. It has helped me recently A LOT, and that's that.

[Super Bass]

I've just started to use one too, like JUST started. Last week

 

Its much better. Its helping me because I'm trying to read music and I can do it at my own pace now.

[chubrocker]

I thought JB was all about using metronomes? He's all about "practice, practice, practice" and "read music, read music, read music."

[Zebra]

Metronome=best practice tool ever.

[Fiery Furnace]

I tried to metronome whenever I could but it got annoying sometimes.

 

 

Then I bought a drum machine... it made it a lot easier, it's a lot more natural to play along with then a constant beep.

 

I'd recommend it to anyone looking to improve their chops; I picked up an Alesis SR-16 for $40 and it's an excellent drum machine.

[rummy]

When I was learning hard guitar solos, I always used a metronome. I find that learning slapping is very similiar to shredding, and can be achieved with a metronome pretty easily.

[Zebra]

Some things that help me with a metronome: pick a tempo and stick with it for a while. Like 20 minutes or something.

If you change tempos, take a little break in between. Switching from one tempo to another on a dime will mess with your head a little, since that old click is still ringing in your head. Especially if the two tempos are similar.