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Start at a slow bpm (or thingy as you call it) and work up from there. Most metronomes that I know of default to a 4/4 setting, so there's no need to adjust that. Set it at 40 bpm, and play along, and then when you get that down bump it up a few bpm and play along. Lather, rinse, repeat.

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Most metronomes have no default meter, they just beat at the desired tempo.

 

40 bpm is SLOW. When I used to work on really fast pieces, I rarely went below 60 bpm.

 

Practice slow. When you have it down, increase about 3 bpm. This is the usualy percievable difference point for most people it seems. If you can play it, go up another 3. Continue until you can't play, and back off 6 or so until you have it very comfortably at that tempo.

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Originally posted by sunburstbasser

Most metronomes have no default meter, they just beat at the desired tempo.

 

 

I guess "default" wasn't the right term for me to use when I said that most of the metronomes I work with are set to 4/4. The meter is adjustable (how much so depends on the metronome), however I've yet to turn on a new, unused, digital 'nome and not get 4/4. I'm not sure if the 'nome would retain the meter you had it set to if the battery died, though.

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Originally posted by Melville



I guess "default" wasn't the right term for me to use when I said that most of the metronomes I work with are set to 4/4. The meter is adjustable (how much so depends on the metronome), however I've yet to turn on a new, unused, digital 'nome and not get 4/4. I'm not sure if the 'nome would retain the meter you had it set to if the battery died, though.

 

 

How do you know if your metronome is set to 4/4 and not 5/4 or 7/8?

 

Mine just clicks.

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Originally posted by The Insomniac



How do you know if your metronome is set to 4/4 and not 5/4 or 7/8?


Mine just clicks.

 

 

Mine is digital. It tells me what time signature it is in.

 

I'd still like one of those more decorative type metronomes, that is wooden and has the actual pendulum. Mainly for decorative uses, but I'd love to get a piano to put under it and then learn to play.

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Originally posted by The Insomniac



How do you know if your metronome is set to 4/4 and not 5/4 or 7/8?


Mine just clicks.

 

 

Mine does all of the standard beats and note patterns. It's amazing what some of these things will do these days.

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Originally posted by Bassius


you may wonder 'how much do i practice" etc sometime in the near future...


i had a music prof. tell me something when i asked him that question...


he said


"do it till it doesn't suck"

 

 

And thus, the explanation as to why lug continues to play. Futile, yes...but an explanation none the less.

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