How To Practice With A Metronome 

Absolutely! It's like we're inviting the metronome to play with us, instead of the other way around.

Thank you Michael. Truly hope it is helpful 🙏

I haven't seen that video (yet, on my way) but that's exactly the kind of stuff I'm trying to get at here! Thanks for that

Thanks

Thanks for watching 🙂

💯 agreement here 😃

"No they are not!" Jeff Berlin I'm fully kidding 🤣

@@philreid984 haha!! So funny!

Really?

@@pangeaproxima9446 People who practice with a metronome have a better sense of time. It's proven.

Yes indeed! Next level... might have to demonstrate over tunes next time. Trying to keep it 'simplistic'... thanks for watching!

Thanks and I totally agree

Thanks for watching and for the lovely comment ✌️

Busta! Miss you from the live streaming days!! Thank you for watching, as always 🙏

Thanks for watching! #groovy 😃

Pro Metronome does 10bpm. Free too. Love that metronome. Can also set it to shut off for X amount of bars

Time Guru, which I'm using in this video, goes down to 5 bpm... and has a lot of the 'in-n-out' features mentioned in the comment below as well

... and I like getting as little as possible from the metronome as well... usually more like 15bpm

@@bobdeboo8549 nice, thanks for the tip. Ill check that out. Yeah I hang out around 25 bpm these days. Thanks for spreading the good word about slow clicks. It almost feels like a secret sometimes. Deeply important to my time.

Thanks Pickinstone! Finally the rhythm course is out!

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Thanks for watching. Perhaps check out the new course this lesson comes from..."Rhythm Anthology" www.openstudiojazz.com/mastering-rhythm

Yo LiYoung!!

@@bobdeboo8549 Hey!

Was born for this I guess...not a stage name 🙂

Hi. I use an app called 'Time Guru' pretty much exclusively

True

Some possibilities (or mix/match): B flat major, B flat blues scale, B flat mixolydian. (a progression of I ii V I in B flat major sounds particularly "inside" over that bass)

The blues mixolydian hybrid scale is great for solos. Just going through the whole scale doesn't sound great but when you break it apart there are many different phrases and ways to utilize it.

Haha are you high?!

Lol. Facts.

Not sure 'stand alone' but i use "time guru" which can go down to 5bpm (which I've tried... nuts!)

These are practice ideas, similar to weight training "off the field." If you're looking for metric modulation in the wild there are many references... such as Tony/Ron with Miles, or Tain/Hurst, and many, many more...

Relatable comment. Definitely me for a number of years of my musical life. Keep at it!

Yes - that's part of the exercise

not at the moment, but I feel like the onscreen graphics kind of fill that role

Stretch!!!

He’s not saying don’t play quarter notes. He’s saying don’t just think of the metronome clicks as exclusively quarter notes. Spacing the clicks further apart forces you to engage your internal metronome. At least that’s what I took from it.

@@G_Demolished thank you🙏 that's all I'm trying to do... and my example is all 1/4 notes by the way

Quarter notes have the same meaning to me in 3/4 time. It's perhaps a difference in geographical location because if I used the term "crochets" here in St. Louis in a rehearsal my musical partners would not know what I mean...

@@bobdeboo8549 Yeh, I know. It’s an Americanism….and generally it’s not an issue for me but in this case it’s just plain illogical.

Good point, and no disagreement here David! Pretty much all the music I play is Black American Music, or has roots in it! #BAM

Do you Mike! I'm just trying to share some stuff that I like to practice that seems honest. I agree 100% with your experiential sentiment here, by the way.

@@bobdeboo8549 I apologize. I was just frustrated. I'm sure there's value in your knowledge and experience, but while I understood the words in theory, I couldn't connect them immediately your playing and the metronome. It felt like information overload. I would have benefited from a slower more methodical introduction. Almost everyone finds it difficult to play with metronome at first, especially at slow tempos. And while I'm a guitar player (and banjo, though I started on the trumpet) I don't really play jazz - other than something like a T Bone Walker jump blues - but I've listened to a tons of jazz from the early 20s to the 80s. So it seems I should have been able to grasp it. That said, the RU-vid algorithm suggested it, and I thought it would be helpful. Who knows, maybe I'll try it and something will click. Again, sorry. I didn't mean to trash your effort.

@@mikem668 took no offense Mike! appreciate your thoughts and i hear you

that's the next step! we're talking about "time" here, not "feel" by the way. Having solid "time" is crucial, just like having a good "feel" is - but they are not the same thing!