Beginner's Guide to Playing with a METRONOME | Use this exercise to play confidently in time

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Summary

TLDRThe video addresses the challenges musicians face when practicing with a metronome and provides a practical guide to mastering it. It emphasizes the importance of incorporating a metronome into practice to develop a steady tempo and consistent rhythm essential for ensemble playing and recording. Initially, one should practice without their instrument by clapping along with the metronome at a slow pace, progressing to verbal counting of beats and subdivisions such as eighth notes, triplets, and sixteenth notes. Once comfortable with these rhythms, musicians should incorporate these techniques into playing their instruments, starting with open strings and gradually moving to scales or melodies. Regular practice with the metronome builds discipline and improves timing, allowing for smooth, synchronized performance with other musicians. The instructor encourages persistent practice, noting that even those who struggle with timing can improve.

Takeaways

  • 🎯 Playing with a metronome improves timing and rhythm.
  • 🛠 The first step is to practice clapping with the metronome beat.
  • 🎵 Progress to counting beats verbally with the metronome.
  • 👍 Use digital metronome apps for convenient practice.
  • 🎸 Incorporate instrument practice after mastering clapping and counting.
  • 🎧 Moving from quarter notes to increasingly complex rhythms improves skills.
  • 👌 Persistence with a metronome builds essential musical discipline.
  • 💡 Visual markers in sheet music can aid in aligning with metronome beats.
  • 👂 Practicing with a metronome is critical for group play and recordings.
  • 🎶 Both slow and fast practices should be incorporated for balance.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    In this video, the speaker aims to help musicians play confidently with a metronome, which can be challenging and frustrating. They explain the importance of using a metronome for practicing to achieve an even, steady tempo, as seen in top musicians. The speaker emphasizes that while some people have a natural ability to feel rhythm, this skill can be learned through practice. Initially, musicians should focus on feeling the beat by clapping to metronome beats without any instrument, which helps concentrate solely on rhythm without the distraction of playing an instrument.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    The instructional video progresses to clapping along with verbal counting, initially reinforcing the primary beats and advancing to counting subdivisions such as eighth notes and triplets while keeping the primary beats through claps. This teaches musicians to manage separate rhythms with their voice and hands, a beneficial skill when playing music that involves rhythmic variation. The emphasis is on steady practice, even if challenging, to enhance musicians' capability to keep time while also applying it physically by using instruments.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:19:05

    Further advancing the exercises, musicians are encouraged to incorporate their instruments by playing open strings while navigating through rhythmic processes from quarter notes to 16th notes, still emphasizing staying with the metronome beat. Eventually, integrating musical scales like the G Major scale allows for practical application, drawing lines through sheet music to visually aid in aligning notes with metronome beats. The speaker reassures viewers that consistent practice, even if initially difficult, will lead to improvement in playing with a metronome, closing with encouragement to practice regularly and offering channel engagement for further assistance.

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Video Q&A

  • What does this video teach about metronomes?

    The video offers techniques to help musicians play in sync with a metronome and improve their rhythm.

  • How can one improve their ability to stay with the metronome?

    By clapping and moving to the beat without an instrument initially, musicians can better internalize the rhythm before applying it to their playing.

  • What type of metronome does the instructor recommend using?

    The teacher uses apps for digital metronomes, which are convenient and accessible for practice.

  • Can someone who struggles with rhythm learn to use a metronome effectively?

    Yes, with practice anyone can learn to play with a metronome, regardless of natural rhythm inclinations.

  • How should one start practicing with a metronome according to this video?

    The video suggests starting by clapping to the beat of the metronome, then gradually adding verbal counting, and eventually integrating this into playing an instrument.

  • Why is practicing with a metronome crucial for musicians?

    It helps ensure equal and steady timing, which is crucial in solos, ensemble playing, and recording sessions.

  • What exercises does the video suggest for metronome practice?

    Clapping and counting rhythms along with the metronome helps to embed the beat and different note divisions into your practice.

  • How do metronomes assist musicians in live or recording scenarios?

    Metronomes help keep a steady tempo, which is vital as musicians may naturally speed up or slow down based on song difficulty and other factors.

  • How do you progressively increase the complexity of metronome practice?

    By practicing clapping and counting in different subdivisions like beats, eighth notes, triplets, and sixteenth notes with the metronome before using instruments.

  • What is the process described in the video for practicing with a metronome?

    It involves clapping to beats, counting in various time divisions, and finally incorporating an instrument following the same rhythmic guide.

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    playing with a metronome can be so
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    frustrating so challenging especially
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    when you keep trying and trying and
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    trying and you just can't seem to stay
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    with it in this video I am going to walk
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    you through a process that I like to use
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    with my students to help them learn to
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    play with a metronome confidently so go
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    ahead click the like button down below
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    because that really helps me out and
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    stick with me to the end of this video
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    because once we've walked through this
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    process hopefully you will feel much
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    more confident playing with
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    metronome chances are that if you
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    clicked on this video then you already
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    know what a metronome is but just so
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    we're all on the same page a metronome
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    can be either mechanical or it can be
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    digital mechanical metronomes have the
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    literal metronome and it has a pendulum
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    that swings back and forth and then we
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    have digital metronomes I use a digital
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    metronome I use an app on my phone there
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    are a whole bunch of different free
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    Metronome apps that you can use I will
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    link the one that I use down below so
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    that you can check it out but basically
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    what a metronome is is it is a tool that
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    musicians use to measure how fast or how
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    slow the beat of a song is metronomes
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    are super important and you definitely
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    should be practicing with the metronome
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    for multiple reasons one of those being
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    if we look at or if you listen to some
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    of the top musicians some of the top
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    mandolin players octave mandolin players
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    guitar players whoever you want to look
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    at chances are that they've spent a lot
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    of time with the metronome and so when
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    you listen to their playing their notes
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    are very equal very solid very steady
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    and that's what we want to achieve
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    because as you grow in your musical
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    journey and as you begin playing with
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    other musicians as you begin recording
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    yourself you're going to find out how
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    important it is that you have a steady
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    tempo and what a lot of us don't realize
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    is that as we're playing we naturally
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    tend to either speed up or slow down in
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    certain areas depending on the
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    difficulty of the song and other factors
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    so so we want to make sure that we're
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    practicing with the metronome so that
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    then we can play with other musicians
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    and stay with them it sounds it sounds
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    together we can stick with them no
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    matter if they're playing fast if
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    they're playing slow we all gel together
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    and we're able to keep a steady tempo
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    that is very pleasing to the ears it's
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    also a very great discipline to practice
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    with the metronome as many of you
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    probably know and I will say I don't
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    love practicing with the metronome I
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    never have it's not something that I
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    just love doing in my practice if it
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    were up to me I would sit down and I
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    would play and I would not ever turn on
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    a metronome but you know what as I have
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    started recording myself more I've
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    started to notice that I have a very bad
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    tendency to speed up in certain areas
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    and sometimes I notice if I'm playing
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    triplets then I tend to slow down a
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    little bit which is not good and so I
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    have started incorporating the metronome
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    into my practice much
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    more okay so now on to the point of this
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    video how can we practice with a
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    metronome so that we can feel that beat
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    so that we can stay with it I do think
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    that some people have a little bit more
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    of a natural tendency to be able to feel
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    the beat to feel the rhythm a little bit
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    better they just have it's naturally
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    within them the Lord has given them a a
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    musical gift of being able to feel that
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    metronome and for some people it just
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    doesn't come as naturally but I have
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    good news for you whether you feel it or
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    not it can be learned it is something
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    that just like anything else the more
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    you practice it the better you're going
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    to get at it so the first thing that
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    we're going to do is actually work on
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    moving our body to the metronome without
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    even an instrument in hand I think this
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    is where people get into trouble is that
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    they first start trying to play with a
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    metronome with an instrument maybe
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    they're trying to play a scale or an
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    arpeggio or a song with a metronome and
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    and the the the hard thing about that is
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    not only are you trying to feel the
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    rhythm stay with the beat stay with that
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    metronome but you're also having to
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    worry about left hand fingerings and the
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    pick hand and so you just have so much
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    going on in your brain and it's really
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    hard just to focus in on staying with
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    that metronome so we're going to put all
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    instruments down and we are going to
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    grab our metronomes and we're going to
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    clap with the bead so I'm going to go
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    ahead and start my metronome at
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    [Music]
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    60
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    okay this is my metronome at 60 so what
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    we're going to do is we're just simp
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    going to clap with every single one of
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    these beads and I have a metronome where
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    I hear it but then I I can also look at
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    it my metronome is over here if you
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    can't tell um where I can also look at
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    it so that the the light I can see the
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    flashing light and that actually really
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    helps me to be able to see it and hear
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    it at the same time
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    so this is
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    60 we're going to clap with each
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    beat and our
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    goal is to be right with that metronome
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    as much as
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    possible not to be behind it not to be
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    ahead of
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    it okay do actually honestly it's not
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    super simple it's not super easy to do
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    it is simple it's not easy to do so I
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    recommend just starting with this I know
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    it's it's simple and it doesn't seem
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    like you're going to make much progress
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    doing this but this is a great starting
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    place and even just for me doing that
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    especially doing that while trying to
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    talk it was kind of hard it really made
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    me think so go ahead put your metronomes
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    on start here and once you feel like
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    you've got that under control what we're
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    going to do is we're going to continue
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    to clap and we're going to count the
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    beats with our mouth verbally so we're
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    going to do 1 2 3 three four and we're
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    going to do this with our menr
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    no so here we go one 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
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    cool awesome so now we're going to make
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    it a little bit more complicated so what
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    we're going to do is we are going to
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    keep our claps on the Beats so one 2 3
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    four like we just did but with our mouth
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    we're going to count in eighth notes so
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    we're going to divide each one of these
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    beats into
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    two equal parts so we're going to count
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    one and two and three and four and okay
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    but we're going to keep clapping on the
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    Beats so our mouth and our claps are
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    going to be doing two separate rhythms
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    this is where it it gets a little bit
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    more complicated and it might take you a
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    little bit of time to get this under
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    your belt
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    but this is something to work up towards
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    so I'm going to keep my metronome at
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    60 here we go one and two and three and
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    four and one and two and three and four
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    and 1 and two and three and four and
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    perfect okay so now what we're doing is
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    we're keeping the beat with our clap but
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    our mouth is doing a separate Rhythm now
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    this is super beneficial because when
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    we're playing a song especially if we
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    just take you know a simple Bluegrass
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    tune the beat is going to stay the same
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    we're going to have one 2 three four but
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    we're going to be changing up the rhym
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    that we're playing but we still have to
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    be able to feel that beat and do all the
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    extra Rhythm changes on top of that
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    steady beat if that makes sense
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    sometimes you might be playing eighth
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    notes sometimes you might be playing
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    triplets sometimes you might be playing
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    16th notes but that beat is always going
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    to stay the same so I like doing this
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    exercise because it trains you to keep
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    the beat with your clap but to say other
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    rhythms with your
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    mouth so once you've got what we just
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    did down the eighth notes down we're
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    going to go ahead and we're going to do
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    triplets so triplets are very
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    tricky um because they're not an even
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    subdivision so we're going to divide
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    Every Beat Now into three SE separate
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    parts okay so and the way that we're
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    going to count this is I like to just
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    say triplet so triplet triple it triple
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    it triple it so we're going to keep our
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    claps on the beat and we're going to say
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    triple it with our metronome at 60
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    still
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    okay triple it triple it trip it triple
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    it triple it triple it triple it triple
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    it good okay this one is a little bit
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    trickier so go ahead and practice that
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    do that with your metronome until it
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    feels really comfortable and if you have
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    trouble with this then just keep
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    practicing it for a little bit and then
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    take a break from it come back to it
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    tomorrow and try it again and the more
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    that you do it and the more that you
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    practice you know just clapping with
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    that beat and then adding on the eighth
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    notes and then adding on the triplets
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    the easier it's going to get okay so now
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    we're going to go ahead and go to 16th
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    notes so 16th notes are a division of
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    the Beats into four separate parts and
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    the way that we're going to count this
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    is going to be 1 E and A 2 E and A 3 e
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    and a four e
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    and here we go 1 E and A 2 E and A 3 E
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    and A 4 e and a one E and A 2 E and A 3
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    e and a four E and A okay so that's the
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    last subdivision that we're going to do
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    with our metronome okay so now now is
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    the time when we're actually going to
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    grab our mandolins or guitars or
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    whatever instrument you were
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    [Music]
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    on so now we're adding another level of
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    difficulty right now we have to worry
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    about our pick and our technique a
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    little bit so what we're going to do is
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    we're going to pick one open string so
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    I'm going to choose my open G string my
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    lowest string here and what we're going
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    to do is we're going to walk through
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    that same rhythmic process of starting
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    with quarter notes then going to eighth
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    notes then going to triplets then going
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    to 16th but we're going to keep it just
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    on an open string okay
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    so here's our beat we're going to do
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    quarter notes 1 2 3 4 1
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    2 3 4 1 2 okay let's go to eighth notes
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    1 and two and three four and 1 and two
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    and three and four and one and two and
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    all right triplets triple it triple it
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    triple it triple it triple it triple it
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    triple it triple
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    [Music]
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    it 16 1 E and A 2 E and A 3 E and A 4 E
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    and A 1 E and A 2 E and A 3 E and A 4 E
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    and
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    [Music]
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    A okay so if you are able to go through
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    all of those speeds that's awesome good
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    for you if not then go ahead and just
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    start with the very first one do that
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    get it very comfortable and if you're
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    even having trouble with that that's
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    okay just take it slowly and know that
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    it is a process it's not going to happen
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    overnight but if you continue to to work
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    on it to practice it to practice even
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    just counting with the metronome just
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    clapping with the metronome you can even
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    tap your foot as you're playing all of
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    those things are super helpful and even
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    if you don't have your instrument in
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    hand you can still practice this by
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    clapping talking moving your body some
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    in some way with the metronome
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    okay so now we're going to move to
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    actually playing something so I'm just
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    going to take a standard G Major scale
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    since a lot of people know a G Major
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    scale I love to use this exact exercise
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    with scales so what we're going to do is
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    we're just you know we're going to start
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    off with cord notes like we've been
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    doing we'll play the G Major scale up
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    and down and again our goal is we're
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    trying to make our notes match up EX
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    exactly with the click of that metronome
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    it's actually hard to do and and this is
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    something that I'll be honest I don't
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    think I'm the I'm the best at playing
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    with the metronome and I've noticed that
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    recently so this is something that I'm
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    still working on trying to get all of my
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    notes even especially when I'm playing a
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    passage or a tune that has a bunch of
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    eighth notes trying to get all of those
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    eighth notes equal trying to get them
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    all even is difficult and so this is an
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    exercise that can help with that
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    so okay this is my
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    [Music]
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    metronome Okay
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    cool so that speed is fair fairly simple
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    because every single note that we're
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    playing is lining up with a beat so now
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    when we go to the eighth notes we're
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    going to divide each beat into two
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    separate parts so what I like to do to
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    help me figure out how these notes match
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    up with the metronome is I like to
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    physically draw lines in my music of
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    where the notes line up with the
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    Beats so if we're doing an eighth note G
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    Major scale I'll draw a line through the
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    G and then the B and then the D and then
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    the FP so on so forth so that way we can
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    see okay this note is supposed to be
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    lining up with my first metronome click
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    the second note that I drew a line
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    through that is the note that is
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    supposed to be lining up with my second
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    metronome click so that way visually I
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    can see where I'm supposed to be and
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    then I know if I get off because if I'm
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    playing a note that has a line drawn
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    through it but it's not lining up with a
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    metronome then that means that I
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    probably got off somewhere so we'll go
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    ahead and play the eighth note
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    speed here we
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    [Music]
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    go okay and then we'll do the exact same
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    thing with the triplet speed so if I
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    have a triplet speed written out here
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    then I'm going to go ahead and draw a
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    line at the beginning of every triplet
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    so every three notes the beginning of
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    every three notes is is going to line up
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    with our metronome so we'll go ahead
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    ahead and do that
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    [Music]
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    speed very nice that one's a little
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    tricky it feels a little
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    bit it feels a little bit weird when
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    you're playing it but again it's a great
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    exercise so go ahead don't skip the hard
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    speeds just because they're hard if
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    they're hard that means that they're
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    good and they're helping you grow grow
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    so triplets and the last one is 16 we'll
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    do the same thing as far as you can draw
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    lines in your music and I'm just using a
  • 00:16:38
    G Major scale as an example but in
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    whatever song you're playing if you're
  • 00:16:43
    playing a bunch of eighth notes you can
  • 00:16:45
    do this marking which notes line up with
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    the Beats same thing if you have a
  • 00:16:49
    triplet passage or if you have a measure
  • 00:16:52
    of triplets then you can draw lines
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    through to see where the notes line up
  • 00:16:57
    with what beats and I find this
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    incredibly incredibly helpful and I also
  • 00:17:05
    recommend that especially if you are a
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    beginner always print out your music
  • 00:17:11
    that you're learning and some of you may
  • 00:17:12
    do this already but I think that when
  • 00:17:14
    you print it out then you can you can
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    mark it and draw lines through it and
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    write stars in your music if there's a
  • 00:17:22
    swab that you tend to get off make
  • 00:17:24
    visual markers in your music that can
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    help you as you're learning a song
  • 00:17:31
    s so the last speed is
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    [Music]
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    16 very nice so that is my process and
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    you can do this you could take this G
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    Major scale 2 octaves and do this
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    sequence of rhythms just doing this
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    simple exercise will help you hopefully
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    in your metronome Journey Keep On
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    keeping on I know it can be frustrating
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    but the more you do it the better you're
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    going to get and I have seen people that
  • 00:18:06
    literally could not could not stay with
  • 00:18:09
    the metronome could not even play eth
  • 00:18:11
    notes with the metronome and they keep
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    working on it they keep getting it and
  • 00:18:14
    they learn it and now they're able to
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    play incredibly difficult rhythms so it
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    can be achieved it can be done you just
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    have to keep working on it so thank you
  • 00:18:25
    guys so much for watching don't forget
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    to hit that like button down below and
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    subscribe if you haven't already that
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    would I would love to have you join my
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    channel here go ahead and comment any
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    questions any observations down below or
  • 00:18:40
    any common struggles that you have with
  • 00:18:42
    the metronom maybe I could do another
  • 00:18:44
    video in the future on other tips on how
  • 00:18:47
    to practice with a metronome thank you
  • 00:18:49
    guys so much for watching and I will see
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    you in next week's video
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    [Music]
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