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15/02/2004 7:22 pm
Hello there
I have a question it could be in the wrong place and sound stupid but no one ever told me. I bought a metronome and I don't know how to play with it, is it the snare, bass drum or the high hat do I play a note for every click what's the story people say it will make me better if I use it right and I don't want to waste my time if any one can help I be so grateful PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Help
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15/02/2004 9:30 pm
Hi, John,
The simple answer is that all a metronome does is tick. It ticks at however many ticks per minute that you set it to tick. Where it starts to become a useful device is that when you work out what those ticks mean.
Listen to a song - any song - and tap your foot along with the beat. This is what a metronome does; it acts as an electronic tapping foot. It's not a snare or other drum, just a tapping foot.
What you do is to set the speed of the ticks to the speed required by your song, and what it gives you is one tick for each beat. Nothing more, nothing less.
Hope this helps,
A :-)
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16/02/2004 2:33 pm
Alan is right, they're just ticks.
Usually 4 beats (quarternotes) per measure (in 4/4 time).
The most basic drumbeat to that would be:
bass drum (1) - snare (2) - bass drum (3) - snare (4) = 4 ticks.
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16/02/2004 2:47 pm
I think the confusion lies in the metronome's options. As the other guys have said the metronome just make a sound at regular intervals (that you set).
Some electronic metronomes are not happy with giving you just a tick, they also offer you the opportunity to play the sound of a high-hat, a snare drum or whatever the geeks who designed the circuitry thought was amusing.
But, no matter how you look at it, it's still a tick. Nothing more, nothing less.
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16/02/2004 8:47 pm
You can make use of that tick any way you like. You could play scales with one note to a tick, or two notes, or three, or four. You could use it to give a steady beat to guide you as you learn the timings for a new songs. You could use it to time the eggs you're boiling by counting the number of ticks that have passed. A metronome just clicks at a constant rate. It's like graph paper. The ticks are like the lines on the paper, they mark off equal spaces, and you can use those spaces to line up whatever you want.