How to practice with Metronome - Tips & Tricks 

When was the last time you practiced with metronome?😝

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Holy shit I forgot I was watching this at 1.25x and at 3:42 I almost decided to give up piano forever.

That's why tempo and rhythm are so important.

Even my teacher never taught me this way. Annique you are the best !

I recently started playing/learning piano. And yes...playing with a Metronome just shows me how "wrong" I play without :D

Very nice. I didn't use the metronome much in my younger years, but more recently, I have become very adept at it. It works especially well for me to avoid getting too fast and out of control when first learning a piece. Everything feels more structured, and progressing to the final tempo without mistakes is a lot easier.

I had never understood why playing in cut time was different than playing in common time. I really appreciate the way this was explained, especially with the use of Chopin.

Im currently practicing for a concert in a week, and this is so usefull. Thank you

I love using the metronome, it forces me to often continue with parts i might just end up procrastinating on, simply cus of the click 😂

This method is so very helpful! Thank you!!! I'm getting back into guitar after MANY years out of practice and even when I first started learning I still had no real concept of learning with metronome. So, really, thank you for simplifying this concept. It really took the intimidation out of giving this a whirl as someone who is now self educating.

I use the metronome quite a bit, I find playing slowly and loud coupled with slowly and soft (soft works great with medium as fast tempos as well) helps quite a bit to get a piece more secure. I think the loud practice makes you commit to the right notes and makes you more confident in where everything is, whereas soft practice helps you play more efficiently, clearer, and helps you figure out how to relax in difficult passages. Often slow practice softly helps me play a piece faster.

The metronome is your best friend. It's like the stabilisers on your bike on that ramp in the bowling alley. Practise slow for half an hour and you'll find yourself able to do it fast.

I'm a drummer, i always practice with a metronome. But i'm not so strict with the time-signatures because it's way too funny to play a 3/4 that it sounds like 4/4 (and the other way round), just to confuse the listener :) What you say about the pulse is very important. It's crazy how many musicians don't seem to get it and also treat the metronome like an enemy.

I started relearning the piano again (from VERY basic lessons) and this explanation made me understand how to use a metronome better. Thank you so much! PS. The bloopers are cute

Beautifully explained, thank you so much ❤

Thanks Annique! I've always had a hard time practicing with a metronome and after watching your video I realized I had a hard time because I was doing it all wrong. This helped a lot! Could you do a video on how to go about developing better finger control? For example, in Beethoven's Pathetique 2nd movement where the right hand needs to make the melody standout from the accompaniment being played by the same hand. I guess general tips and tricks on playing piano (as in opposite of forte) would be extremely helpful. Thanks again for putting these videos together!

Thank you so much ❤️i had a problem working with the metronome, but you helped me to be able to work with it better. 🌹If you can, please explain in more detail in the following videos.🙏🏻💙thanks 💐

I usually don't know how to use the metronome, thank you so much for the useful tips

I love practicing with the metronome. Setting the speed in fractals of the final speed is an awsome tip, it makes definitely a difference, how the right pulse is developing. Thank you!

The last piece I wad practicing I underestimated the metronome thinking that I had solid internal rhythm. Aside from my piano teacher grilling me and this video I am motivated to give it more attention 🙂

wow wonderful explaination!

I like that your metronome has a light so when you are hitting the notes, you can physically see if your hitting thme in time with the metronome

Using metronome with ACCENTS was the last piece of my puzzle. Thank you so much and you are awesome!!

Excellent video Annique thank you!

Thank you, this really helped me!

Excellent! Your explanation really helped put things into perspective for me, thank you 🙂

I struggle so much when practicing with metronome, thank you for the video

Thank you for making this

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Good information for any instrument. I don't play the piano but I do tinker on the guitar. Thanks the tips.

The metronome is a godsend for my practice sessions of the third movement of "Moonlight Sonata". I'm at 135 clean, but I want to get up to 150.

This video helps me so much, you’re my hero now

Thank you. It was very helpful ❤

You are incredible

A good book for working on rhythm independently of harmony and melody is Studying Rhythm by Anne Carothers Hall. It’s expensive, (you can also find good used copies if you look around, which I did), but it’s great at allowing you to get rhythmic studying correct for differing time signatures and note values.

This is very helpful, thank you!

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Hi Annique, thanks for this video. You included some valuable tips. I use a metronome regularly. I mostly play jazz piano, and set the metronome on beats 2 and 4 for a common time song. It's tricky, but most jazz is in swing time, so I don't use metronome beats on all four beats. Your suggestion of using the metronome for divisions of the actual time is a great one, I'm going to use it going forward.

This was super helpful, thank you!

Thank you, very nice.

Oof, last time i practiced with a metronome... maybe 2 weeks ago, with a frustrating ending xD I will sit down now and have a look on my Mozart Fantasie. Btw i love the clips at the end!

Thanks a lot, it really helped me

My problem is when I play I can't hear the metronome because the piano drowns it out. But I know it is vital to get your timing down correctly. Loved your description of where to put the accent (the so-called downbeat). Your video turned the light bulb on in my head about time signatures and the reason cut time differs from 4:4 time. Great video.

this was very helpfull thanks

Thank you for the helpful tip. Love your video, and the Ghibli x Adidas T

I like the blooper ending the Best !

That helps i will try this

Metronome gets me nervous! It's really hard for me to concentrate with the sound of the metronome, and I make more mistakes.

U r very awesome player ❤

I love you and love your way of passing on your knowledge, good and nice work. I use metronome regularly. However, I drive the tempo up faster than it should end, to eventually have more calm and overview, a sense of profit when it is finally played around the "right" tempo. What do you think about this?

Great job!

I use the metronome a lot. And I am trying to back off on it while strengthening my counting skills since counting is a stronger means of getting the beat ingrained. However counting is a much bigger mental load which then tends to push me towards the metronome. I do find that I have a much better feeling for the beat for a piece that I'm learning if I do a lot of early work with the metronome with the piece. Also, a random application of the metronome will sometimes let me know when a rhythm mistake has crept into my playing.

Thank you for the tips... 😁

Maybe you should make a video about playing piano by ear. That would be awesome!!!

I don’t play piano but harmonica. Tempo and rhythm are crucial. I practice with metronome. But I used it in a wrong way. Thanks for explaining.

I want to play by looking at the notes like you, I live in Turkey, but can you please make a video about how you learn the notes or answer them, you play very well 👏 🙃

Hi Annique, i used to put metronome randomly. Just trying to go faster each time. It has lot of sense what you explain here 😁

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Good content, thank u 😙

Thx for the tips

Thanks for the tips... it was enlightening... when i practice with metronome i just think of it as when a note should be played... I never paid attention to the accents and the general pulse.... Really gonna need to improve my metronome usage now 🤣

No wonder you are so good.

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Wah not my favorite topic.. Well but it's so helpful definitely will remember some of that the next time I torture me with that 👍🏻🎹

Nice! Mega interessantes Video

Rachma apprenait la 25-6 très très très lentement pendant des heures sans augmenter le tempo, c’est une excellente technique mais quelle patience!

could you please talk more about the time signatures of picese in another video?🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 about how to click them and how to know the differences between them? thanks for your helpful videos 😍 it charges me to not to give up and keep striving

Me literally searching up because i suck on metronome last time i checked u had no video on metronome but damn now i search up its not even more than 15 hours i think its fate!

Several interesting/curious things to share. I can't say I struggle as much with rhythm as I struggle with harmony but I definitly should play more with a metronome because those things you pointed at the start ("too long" "too short") happens to me all the time and wasn't for my teacher to call me on those I would probably go on out of tempo forever. The counting is something I've been doing more and it helps although sometimes it gets really confusing. For example, you are wearing a Ghibli shirt, right? Have you heard Porco Rosso's song "Bygone Days"? The slow swing and the polyrhythm really messes your counting every now and then but its sooooo interesting to see when you get to the other side of the measure in time.

3:55 to 3:59 sounds like Castlevania SOTN's Rainbow Cemetery main motiff SO MUCH

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i don't know how to sync my piano and metronome

Learning a Debussy piece and my teacher made the exact comment when I said "but.. music should be flexible" - the response was "Not at your level, it's not, maybe in 5 years" :-)

At first, I didn't take care about the time signature, and now I write it on each page at the top. For 3/4 I count at the black key, on 3/8 on the 8th, and 2/2 on the white. For 6 months, I work 3 hours basics per day with the metronome, starting as you with half the tempo. exemple : Czerny with 16th, I work on 8 th and make the accent with the regularity because you can be on the rignt tempo but not regular.

I was just thinking of buying one

4:01 nice

I have a seiko too, 🙂. Long ago i had a beautiful mechanic metronome with wood and i forgot it in a practice room and someone stole it. 😓 But actually for use the seiko is more practical.

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Hi Annique😃 I just want to tell you to show us how you play Friska - Liszt (without mistakes)

Thanks for this video. I just ordered the same metronome you have. Can you suggest a beginning speed for learning the middle section of Chopin etude 10#3?

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I love those NG shots. So cute :)

The example at 3:36 is known as the Goldilocks Technique.

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Hi, Annique, so nice to find your beautiful content here on youtube. I love your videos, so much valuable information for musicians! I wonder if you can do a video about how you use your equipment in order to record yourself at home, what microphones do you use for a better quality sound taking into consideration that you are not in a recording studio. Thank you so much! ❤️🙏🏻

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Annique please make also video in german language, i need to practise :)

Sadly the clicking of the metronom confuses me so hard that i can only focus on it and i almost stop playing :(

Challenge - Appasionata,3rd movement .Can you do it?

ehy i have a question. i'll have an exam at september, and i have to prepare 2 etudes (1 is czerny 299 n.2), and i wanted to know if in your opinion etudes are a different thing reguarding normal pieces (like you have to be stricter with the metronome), or not, because i'm just playing it right on tempo without giving it musicality.

Hello, what is the name of the piece you played ? thank you

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I just bought a corts metronome having it shipped musican s friend

3:57 Could someone tell what she's playing ?

Thank you for your nice videos.I wonder why you bought a digital metronome when there are a lot of good apps?I can understand buying a traditional mechanical metronome because of its more natural sound and design but I can not undrestand buying a digital metronome especially one that can not do much more than a mechanical metronome can do.

I have the same metronome.

Ich am verzweifeln, warte seit 6 Monaten auf mein Klavier und endlich nach 7 Jahre Erfahrung und 7 Monate lange Pause Klavier spielen zu können da mein altes kaputt geht. Nun ist es heute angekommen und hat einen fetten holzschaden und kann es direkt wieder zurückschicken bin nur noch am verzweifeln

I have a question regarding what you said about time signatures. I’ve used the metronome to hone my timing of 16th notes, such as in the Revolutionary Etude. If I play at 60BPM 16th notes, I found that the timing between each note was uneven, even though I could match the “click” on every fourth note. I began practicing 120BPM eighth notes instead, to make sure all the notes were evenly spaced (trying to use the original accents). Would you recommend not doing this, and practicing 16ths as real 16ths?