This is going to be a regular thing I am going to call "The Importance Of." Its going to feature something that is very important to becoming a good musician. The first thing I am going to feature is the metronome. The importance of practicing with one cannot be overstated. You should always use one and it is very critical when first starting out. I have my students use them when doing our finger exercises and chord progressions. It helps you get faster and stronger. It helps you be able to play in time. When using one start off at the speed you can do everything cleanly at, namely your exercises. As time goes on you speed up the beats per minute. If you have a particularly difficult piece to play you can use it to play slowly and then build up your piece of music to the desired speed over a couple days. A metronome can help you get better a whole lot faster than just doing exercises without one. IT IS A MUST HAVE for drummers. If you are a drummer and you cant play steady, you are not a good drummer. It does not matter how many toms,bass drums or how expensive your cymbals are... if you cant play in time you are not gonna be good. That saying goes for every instrument. So go get yourself one. You don't need to spend a whole lot of money on one, $10-$15 should do you. An expensive one does the same thing as a $10 one. You can pick them up on the cheap at any music store. This ends our first installment of "The Importance Of." PEACE
L.i.E. is recording new songs. I recorded drum tracks for one of the songs back in January, and we finally started working on the other instruments this month. In doing so, we noticed that, over the course of the first verse that has 6 repeats, the tempo was slowly speeding up as time went along and the drums got 'busier.'
ReplyDeleteI did not use a metronome to record it, and now I have to re-record the whole thing.
Thankfully, we did use a metronome for the other songs!
-Michael
word dork. its a must do for playing modern metal. having a "click track" or metronome.
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