Playing with a metronome

[Carbophos]

It is really important to have a metronome that has a good "click" tone, that cuts through your playing. Because the metronome should lead you, literally kick you.

Also really fast playing should be like 3% of your practicing time. If you have a hard time playing 16th at 100bpm, I'd recommend you first start playing the same patterns as 8ths at 120 gradually raising it up to 200 and then return back to playing as 16th from 80-90 gradually raising it up to 100.
To make sure that your fingers play the pattern automatically, change to the triplets (you had 1-2-3-4 1-2-3-4 pattern, now it is 1-2-3 4-1-2 3-4-1 etc) starting at 120-140...

[Endrik]

what the fuck are you bitches talking about scales and shit, metronomes, rhythm machines, backing tracks etc. foremost should be used for making your rhythm playing tight, I've seen too many scales wizards who are all over the place when it comes to rhythm parts.

[Carbophos]

what the fuck are you bitches talking about scales and shit, metronomes, rhythm machines, backing tracks etc. foremost should be used for making your rhythm playing tight, I've seen too many scales wizards who are all over the place when it comes to rhythm parts.

Lead playing should be right on time too. Just ultra-fast shredding hides sloppy timing. But lead playing is not only about putting out an 8-bar string of 32ths. Actually tight picked 16th's notes with good timing and interesting note choice sound "faster" that a sloppy 32th spill back and forth the scale.

[Endrik]

umm, yeah altho I don't understand what ya saying about those 32's and whatnot I agree that leads should have "meter" too but too much are focusing on leads and forgot how important is to play rhythm parts very tightly.... maybe I make a big deal out of it but It disturbs me, I've been blessed with great timing and meter and I've been playing syncopated funk riffs from early on... so I'm always paying attention to the tightness of the rhythm. I really enjoy listening to Motley Crue altho Mick Mars is not the greatest lead player, he is unbeliveably tight with the rhythm section, or same thing with Malcolm Young of ACDC.

[Carbophos]

Yeah, the bedroom shredders are a certain breed of players, I understand.
But I mean you either got timing or not, whatever your focus is. If the dude is incapable of playing steady 8ths "chugga-chugga" on an open low E string, this means that all his "shredding" is sloppy and most likely with poor tone.

[LastInLine]

what the fuck are you bitches talking about scales and shit, metronomes, rhythm machines, backing tracks etc.

Probably because the thread topic is "Playing with a metrononme", Einstein.

I've been blessed with great timing and meter

And obviously quite humble.

[VitaminG]

And obviously quite humble.

well, when E isn't playing with the finest musicians, battling wits with the greatest academics or banging heads with the toughest fuckers in his country, he's banging the hottest looking chicks in all of Estonia. Humility isn't in his lexicon

[rjohnstone]

I can't stand metronomes.
I use a 4 measure drum loop that has an accent hit on the snare in the first measure.
I don't "shred" as I suck at solos. I use the drum track to keep my timing sharp.

[Endrik]

well, when E isn't playing with the finest musicians, battling wits with the greatest academics or banging heads with the toughest fuckers in his country, he's banging the hottest looking chicks in all of Estonia. Humility isn't in his lexicon

dazz rite G, I am da man

Lastinline, you need fun-o-trome, it's a machine wich goes tic toc...tic toc...tic toc...have some sense of humour bitch...tic toc...tic toc.....

[JC_Denton]

Probably because the thread topic is "Playing with a metrononme", Einstein.

LMAOROTF

[Sukisyn]

well, when E isn't playing with the finest musicians, battling wits with the greatest academics or banging heads with the toughest fuckers in his country, he's banging the hottest looking chicks in all of Estonia. Humility isn't in his lexicon

So you are saying he is the new Brett? (the one that got banned that is)

[Endrik]

So you are saying he is the new Brett? (the one that got banned that is)

new brett.... wtf.... dude that's lame.... brett my ass

[Sukisyn]

I apologize, Endrik. I am not saying you are like Brett. I am saying that the description the V used sounds a lot like Brett. I came back to clarify my statement but you had beat me to it.

Once again I am sorry!!

[Endrik]

ehee, no it's cool man, it's just that it makes me look like a copycat or something I think Ace too wouldn't like if someone called him Brett II or something.... yeah we do have common things but we are still totally different cats

[LastInLine]

well, when E isn't playing with the finest musicians, battling wits with the greatest academics or banging heads with the toughest fuckers in his country, he's banging the hottest looking chicks in all of Estonia. Humility isn't in his lexicon

In other words, he's a legend in his own mind?

dazz rite G, I am da man

Lastinline, you need fun-o-trome, it's a machine wich goes tic toc...tic toc...tic toc...have some sense of humour bitch...tic toc...tic toc.....

Bitch? Let's leave your mother out of this, O.K.? How's that for a sense of humor?:ROTF:


Why is it every message board has a clown like this?