Holy moly. Great exercises! If anyone else is here 7 years later, I made some notes and an overview for myself. Exercise 1: Swing 2 & 4 -- 0:40 -- Set metronome to half speed, and use clicks as 2nd & 4th beat. -- Also use on pracicing new tunes. Exercise 2: Slow Jam (Torture) -- 2:55 -- Set metronome to 20 bpm. One note in a scale per click. Exercise 3: 4 On 4 Off -- 4:35 -- Set Time Guru to play 4 beats, then pause for 4 beats. Exercise 4: One, One and Done -- [Next video] -- 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 [Next video] -- Set Time Guru to play the (2e&)a and the (4e)&. (see the video) Exercise 6: The disorienter -- [Next video] -- Variation of exercise 1. Set Time Guru to click beat 2, and try to keep time with this. Exercise 7: Song form exercise -- [Next video] -- 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
I get the metronome exercice at a slower pace, but when you practised on your tune at 2.30 i don't see how you / can t hear if beats 2 and 4 fall in the right notes. My ear cannot process both sounds at that speed.
But i would also say it is very important to incorporate what you don't know into what you know, blend it in, so it feels natural. He does that in this lesson. Great player.
Every so often you stumble on a video that's not part of a weekly "x things to do" that's part of a revenue driving youtube channel but a piece of advice that is meant to last.
@@SeanDriscollSoMuchSound bruh what was theat toxic comment, man I have been dying toget someone to explain to me why the fuck guitarists call modes positions, and then positions #'s for the fret. its so fucking confusing, from a piano playter. Glad you're alive! this was a killer lesson. for scale sequencing.
Thanks man. I do have an Adam Rogers transcription in the can. That will probably be out in a couple weeks after I figure out the best way to teach what it is he's doing.
8 years tutorials, tips & tricks and so on videos on youtube were so much useful, meaningful.Like you could really learn to do things and think for yourself and develp.
as a serious student of percussion I must say he killed that 20 bpm exercise, every note was right on point! It's not that easy (especially to lock in right away without letting such a slow tempo sink in to the mind / body for a while)
These are all great exercises. Thanks for the post. I'm always looking for & trying to come up with my own "metronome games." To add a twist to metronome on 2 & 4: try to put (hear) the clicks on the "& of 1" and the "& of 3." This is an extremely difficult exercise I got from a drummer. It's hard enough to just hear it, it's a whole other difficulty level to actually play something along to the click like this. You can also do something similar in time feel 3/4. I learned this from a guitarist: place click on 1 and the "& of 2" (you should be feeling the dotted quarter note pulse). And another twist on that exercise, place the click on the offbeat of anyone of those 3 beats--I'm currently working on "& of 1." Metronome needs to be set at a slow pulse. It's extremely difficult, but it will definitely improve your time-feel & groove.
...or even 32 off, or even something where you've gone the whole day off musical meditation style then just come back on time - you could quit metronome practise after that for good.
Hey Josh-- for the first 2 & 4 exercise I'm using a metronome on my computer called Metronome which you can download for free. The other two metronomes I use are on my iPhone, one called TimeGuru for the last exercise and one called Tempo. Links to all of them are on my somuchsound.blogspot site.
