How To Use a Metronome (Piano Practice Tips)
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- Опубліковано 27 тра 2024
- Rhythm might seem tricky at first, but it's the secret sauce to playing piano songs smoothly.✨ In this 101 metronome guide, we'll walk you through everything you need to know about using a metronome effectively. From understanding its basics to finding your perfect tempo and even integrating it with your favorite songs, we've got you covered! Stick around until the end for some closing thoughts to boost your practice sessions. ⏰
⚡️Chapters:
0:00 Introduction To The Metronome
0:34 How Do We Use A Metronome?
1:06 Start Slowly
1:58 Find Your Perfect Tempo
2:48 Speeding Up The Metronome
3:18 Try Subdividing!
4:12 Learning Can Be Easier!
5:13 Use The Metronome With A Song
8:53 Closing Thoughts
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Pianote creates an atmosphere that is so helpful for learning. Watching your videos makes me /want/ to practice more. They remind me how fun it can be and how good it feels to play and to be a part of music. Big thank you to Lisa and the whole team! You guys are doing important work!!
Yes! Really important work, I agree. Helping me refind my playfulness that got buried by boring 🥱 and non musical methods!
Best explaination of using the Metronome. Thank you Lisa.
1. SLOW practice is the KEY to fast playing . 2. MAKE it SWING : use dotted rhythms to hep improve your timing. 3 . Reverse your dotted rhythms. 4. Phasing your phrasing.
Thank you. Nice lesson on the Metronome. Sometimes, I want to throw it across the room 😂, but yes, it does help with rhythm and getting faster. Good job Lisa!
This video is so timely and so helpful, been really struggling to find videos on UA-cam explaining rhythm, and using metronomes but this has explained it in a way that is easy to understand and apply. Thank you Lisa!
Thank you for encouraging me to start using my Metronome again. I had abandon it for a while. Was too frustrating.
However, with your recent demonstration it makes me wanting to fall in love with it. (‘Again)!!!!!
I play drums. I can’t even walk on the streets without hearing my metronome’s clicks 😂❤ Time is a big big thing for me, still learning and having pain but love it 🥁🥁🥁
This is the best explanation I have ever heard. I have really struggled with the metronome.
Was looking at the website and noticed that the membership fee is 240 bucks! I also noticed that the fee cost is for all the instruments. Some people cannot afford that and only want to learn one instrument. So maybe you can make a cheaper subscription for just one instrument instead for all four but still including the lessons,songs and all the amazing stuff there is in pianote (for that instrument of course).
Thanks
@emiliovn8687, I'm not going to contradict you--$240 is a lot of money. Keep in mind, though, it is less than $5/week. Many folks spend that much on coffee every day. Pianote also offers an enormous amount of material for free on UA-cam, so there is a path to more musical knowledge for most folks.
Thank you so much for this video I was actually able to learn how to use the metronome in my playing and it has gotten so much better
Thank you. This is helpful 😊
Glad you liked the video! 😊
Thank you
You're welcome!
Very helpful, thank you!
Very helpful lesson!
Thanx for sharing very informative vlog 🎉🎉🎉👏👏👏
I love my metronome. It makes me learn so much faster. Thank you.
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That’s also hard to know them both. Why not one type of worded system 🤯 I also love my metronome cause I play drums.
@@elikebudi I'm sorry I don't know what you mean.
@@michaelbeeministries2020I mistakenly replied to someone else’s comment here. I’m sorry.
Lisa, I need to use my metronome more. Thanks for sharing how we can break it down. This makes much better sense. First time I’ve found someone to break it all down. Love Pianote. Thanks.
Great video. My metronome was the best thing I ever bought over twenty years ago :) One of those old retro ones. This video is extremely important. I wish I had these videos when I started piano. Great positivity in the videos too. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Lisa, this is really useful. I thought I knew how to use mine but this has cleared up a couple of things for me 😊
I can't stress how important this is... for all musicians. And a reminders... singers are musicians. Their instrument is their voice!
Love this channel ❤
One advantage of a physical metronome over one built into an electronic keyboard is that you have physical cues on when it’s about to click, i.e., you can see it approaching the click point. This can make it easier for a beginner to follow the instruction to play the note on the click.
Brilliant
A way that my bass instructor taught me to build speed/dexterity using the metronome.
Pick a comfortable tempo. Then play your piece you are learning... when it starts to feel comfortable... double it for one round.
So, say you set to 80... play your piece (2 measures?) 3 times. Then the 4th time... play at double the speed. Don't change your metronome, just play two notes per beat. Then go back to the regular speed.
After a short time, you'll find your dexterity improves... when your tempo's are "too slow" - just increase the speed... or the complexity of the piece you are practicing.
Perfect pitch gang, what note is this? 😁4:01 Thank you for this tutorial. I just learned how to use a metronome last month when learning a Chopin piece
Never liked metronome , but after learning playing somewhat , now it Looka like it’s a good tool and probably should start practicing with it!
Love it! And love all your tutorials! One I keep searching for, but can't find anywhere (from you or others) is a basic technique I can practice to roll chords. I know it's just playing the notes in the chord in quick succession, but... how? Do I keep my hand rigid and kind of let it fall on the keys left to right? Or do I have the hand hover and press down each finger in succession? And do I practice that with a metronome at slow speeds and move up? I'd be grateful for any pointers!
How true on time is it. I find a lot of metronomes every beat isn't equal, why I know , because in my recording daw, In order to use it I have to go through it and move a lot of them on time.
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Can you make a video for playing Time by Hanz Zimmer?
I am trying to perfect my timing of Dvořák’s From The New World with the metronome set at 40 bpm.
Good luck.
Nice…
Try walking with with a metronome and then speed up and run! Start with andante and work your way up to presto! 🚶♀️
Hi, how are You? And to get here in Italy? It is possible?
Hi, for sure! We have international shipping 🙂
@@PianoteOfficial wow! Good!
The metronome made its debut in 1815, and was received with mixed opinions. True artists and composers from Beethoven to Brahms to everyone else in between either praised it or loathed it as a machine devoid of musical expression. Its most rudimentary purpose was to give the composer's intended tempo of a composition. And that is really the only common factor that gives us any indication of how they performed their works, as UA-cam videos weren't always around to record performances!!!
That leads to another conflict of understandings, namely, how did they use it vs how we use it today. Wim Winters (a UA-camr with many videos on this subject) has a strong case that the original method of using the metronome is the "Whole Beat" way of counting, instead of single beat as we do today.
Imagine a tire swing that rotates in a circular manner instead of back and forth. How would you count it? Instinctively, one would count a complete circle rotation as a "beat" of reference. Now if the circular rotation became more elliptical and eventually a simple back and forth motion, how would you count it? Most people would count the "change of direction" as a beat of reference, namely from back and forth.
That brings us to the way we use (and hear) the metronome today. We use each "click" of the pendulum as the reference for the duration of a quarter note. While not a "wrong" method in its own merit, that isn't how it was first used since 1815 to indicate tempo. The idea was to use one side of the metronome as the reference for the duration of the quarter note, say the left side. So that means you heard TWO clicks per quarter note, as that follows the logic of a FULL ROTATION of circular motion.
That leads to the confusion of tempo markings in many pieces from early 1800's, and very likely with this ambiguity of how the metronome was used, we are playing pieces twice as fast today as what was originally intended by the composer. In the modern understanding we are trying to chase after tempos never dreamed of by the composers.
While there are "super virtuosos" that attain incredible technique and tempos, even they DON'T always attain some of the tempo markings, and if they get "pretty close", the musical integrity of the piece is often sacrificed along the way. While what they achieve is most impressive and sometimes still retain some musical sensibilities, the original composers might be shocked at how their music is performed today. Indeed, most of them would likely lose in the very piano competitions given in their name and honour!!!
The sense of speed in the 1800's was gauged by galloping horses and steam locomotives, whereas today it is gauged by bullet trains, super cars, fighter jets, and rockets. So our perception of tempo is very likely NOT what their perception of tempo was.
So, while the metronome can be a useful tool for some folks as demonstrated in this video, the tempo markings on a piece of music from the 1800's should be taken with a grain of suspicion. By the 1900's to present day however, the single click is understood to be the duration of a quarter note (or whatever is designated).
Remember a metronome is your best friend because he tells you the truth.
It was the opposite for me, I find it easier to go faster and I struggle a lot with slow tempos 😅😭
It's different for lots of people. Some find fast tempos hard and others find slow tempos hard because there is so much space inbetween.
Why didn't you take 4/4 ??
Ive never used a metronome in my entire life 😬
Why don't Americans use Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Si. like the rest of the world ?
A lot of countries in north Europe’s and east use letters it’s better in my opinion
Isn't do re mi for kids? I did do re mi as a kid and soon switch to letters as a teen. Felt better and more logical
We et 0:21 25th 4😅😊😮
Eh? Alot of the world uses letteres. Here in india some places dont use either
Love you and your teaching style , Lisa, but honestly speaking, Wittner metronomes are JUNK! My wife bought me one for Christmas. Pieces were falling off as I opened the box. Cheap plastic gears and mechanism. Cheap thin wood and terrible finish. Plus, they are not inexpensive. I boxed it back up, sent it back, and ordered a beautiful solid wood and brass antique metronome off eBay for less money.
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Welcome!🎉
Can you please play chug jug with you
Im learning a lot from you unfortunately i dont know your name. Tell me your name madame
Welcome! Lisa Witt 😊