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"Ya doorknob lickin b*tch." Hands down one of the best insults I have ever heard.

I feel personally attacked by this

Me playing guitar for 3 years and not discovering “metronome”: 🤯

Learning to keep in time with a metronome is my favorite exercise, you get a chance to jam a bit while getting good use from it, then you play along with a song and it feels alot more smooth.

I just got an old mechanical metronome for Christmas and it was a great gift. I've used electronic ones for years but this has so much more character that it's made basic practice more fun.

If Lars Ulrich was a guitarist

"I don't want to be helped" is incredibly sad. This resonates. But also, sometimes getting help hurts.

Too accurate, I started in drumming, so metronome was a must. Learning guitar alongside that journey and later getting heavily into it,along with usingthe metronome already, is what I attribute to my progression. In fact in marching band wed have parts where wed have a met running and the director would cut it. Then start it at a slower or faster so many measures later and we were supposed to slow down perfectly to it. Taught me amazing tempo control for different signatures as well. Good times.

Day three of asking you to play rush E

That's very true, I been playing for 15 years and barely no more than a year start using the metronome and it Helps alot!!!

I can finally relate for once.

Hey sunglasses guy seems pretty cool... he's got sunglasses 😎

😂 ❤ 🎸 Oh C’mon! Who cares to be in times and in tune? How’s that gonna help a Musician be a Musician? 🤣😂🎸👍

Been avoiding metronome since I started a year ago. Time to invest myself to some music theory and metronome.

If you play along with something play along with the real record -Guthrie Govan With thaaat being said… not everyone is Guthrie Govan

As a drummer my nightmare is guitarists that can't play in rythm

Me who Plays without metronom or Song Backing Track because fuck it,im Doing my Own show here

Both are good. I noticed that playing to the rhythm of the drums & bass in actual songs was surprisingly tough after getting used to the uniform click of the metronome, so I added time to play over songs/backing tracks in addition to practicing with a metronome.

Yk, sometimes I wish my guitar could just kill me already

That is one beautiful guitar.

This reads like b-roll from the battle of mustafar

I am violinist but I suck with the metronome. And I even set it very slow with subdivisions and still fall behind.

Some truth here and some myths if I can claim so, and with offerings of food for thought. Before though, great video and inspired me to contribute a reaction here for discourse. I found metronome practice led me to lose human instinct feel when playing with ensembles. To counter this robotic habit for time keeping I had practiced into being was to leave metronome work for quite a while. My groove and timing is way much improved. The point is like to make then here: metronome work should be done by all musicians but as a tool to developed rhythmic accuracy and universal pulse confidence. as a drummer it hurts me when I have to be the bands token time keeper because im the onky one who can. When every band member can keep good time a new opportunity arises however. Arrangement possibilities. A new feel can be achieved with members playing their phrases ahead or behind the strict pulse thus creating a new rhythmic sensation for the listener of the piece. When I left metronome work for a while I found myself listening to the timing of others and finding where I beat fit between their feels as to help glue the whole bands live performance together organically. I no longer superimposed a practiced perfect time and demanded the band fall in line with that. My pocket is more flexible and more considerate in live settings. now my metronome use isn't for time practice, it's for specific and strictly technical practice work to develop control based skill sets. I separate strict disciplinary based practice sessions from real live music performance settings. A footballer trains many drills but only uses what the live situation requires. The metronome is for the training but the real skill of ensemble playing is through ensemble playing. I'm yammering but I'm suggesting that a band who never played together before but who had years of metronome playing isnt garuanteed to sound great together over a band that had no metronome practice ever but whom had a month of rehearsing together

I like to practice with met but 30 minutes after, that i play along with songs

Shit i havent worked with a metronome for days thanks for reminding me 🙏🏽

Literally me and my lil cousin trying to tell me it’s important to use one 🤣💀

my favorite part about being in band in school for 5 years before starting to play guitar is that i have great rhythm especially because i played drumset in jazz for a couple years

I know I need to use the metronome but the ticking grates at my brain man

i thought you were gonna say sitting her in my desolate room

I will say I never practiced with a metronome, and I definitely see why it helps now. Although you may have a good sense of rhythm while playing with a song or band or, in my case, even by myself with an acoustic. At the very least, it will help you track your improvement when you practice scales or playing faster.

As a metronome hater.....well, ex-hater....i must say, he's absolutely right. Timing improves ten folds when working with metronomes. That pulse he speaks of internally, is a real thing.

Damn u look exactly like Ringo in that shades 😂😂

Completely right

The dust on top of song practice only Guitar though.

Who knew sweep picking on an acoustic would sound so good?

If someone’s out of time it whatever they are playing becomes unimpressive to me

There is no difference between using a metronome to stay on time or using a drum beat to stay on time

Yep lol..That'd be me.. Who cares if I can play along with the sooong

i can keep time just fine but when I have to focus on the strumming pattern and where to keep my fingers I lose count and i cant focus on 3 things at the same time

Most pf us dont care if we have internalized the rythm, we play to have fun. And if that means not being the best, that is ok. Of course, I practice with a metronome, but you know.

Relatable

but quarter note metronomes don't really help internalize that well because the space is usually not long enough to hear yourself fall out. obviously it is a decent place to start

This was me before appreciating the metronome 😂

big brain move: do both at the same time. 🤯

real guitarists use their heartbeat as the metronome (i’m joking)

How I practice guitar vs how I practice drums 😂

That guy sounds pretty cool

I don't wanna be helped... 😂

Me and my rhythm guitarist is a nutshell

at least i try to learn to use one

he reminds of of Severus Sneep xD

Metronomes haven’t existed for that long. The Beatles didn’t use them. Beethoven didn’t use one. It’s helpful but not necessary

I don't wanna be helped 😂😅

Tbh growing up I never practiced with a metronome cause I’d always play the same bpm my band and I were aiming for but it was bass also so not as important as guitar 😭😂😆 but nowayears I use a metronome and lemme tell you I didn’t have to practice to match it, I could match up to 250bpm off of muscle memory. Then after metronome practice I could go further like 300etc

Better than people who practice with neither

I used a metronome religously and rhat was a time when I made major progress. WARNING!! This may only apply only to me but I actually took a Boss BR (100?) anyahere I played and I got dependant on it Recent I laid off the cigarettes and starting metronoming ( must be a word lol) again. Well holy smack I suck at it. That's by playing at a tempo your uncomfortable with. Im working on SEXtuplets (not triplets now) and allot of things are as hard at a low tempo as a faster one .Bieng a pre- You Tube. guitar player was tough . The Boss drum machine really helps you learn allot about music and timing and is worth every penny.

This is where I have problems, let’s see if anyone can help. I learn a lick, let’s say from one of my favorite songs, I get down the notes, the fingering, the rhythm, and then I try practicing that lick to a metronome. Then I fail or lose time all together, then I realize most musicians don’t write licks in straight quarter notes, eighth, or sixteenth notes. Most licks, and riffs are written with syncopation, rests, etc. So what do I do? I can write a straight 8th or 1/4 note lick and play it to a metronome but it is very boring. So how do I improve? And yes I am like this guy, but I have tried not be this guy!

A call with you directly eh? Hmmmmm

is headbanging ok

Nice ring!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, I can't do both lol

I'm a beginner musician and the metronome is SO FRICKING ANNOYING! My mind just can't concentrate on the notes that need to be played, the fingers and the damn metronome. That being said, I won't give up. I'll try to fricking succeed. Wish me luck

Very true.

Me who sight reads the fast parts of summer for the first time without the metronome and didn’t even mess up on the tempo: you little little guitarists.. better not be calling out us violinists

Not here for practice, but I do have a question: Can you play a song to an internal rhythm whilst a metronome is ticking to another rhythm? I feel like one could, but I imagine it would be difficult.

As a Drummer... Why you gotta call me out like that

When I listen to music, I keep, tapping along to the rythm and, its especially piano songs, that have this problem, every time theres a "drop", or like a chorus, or whatever, its MILLISECONDS off and it is so unsatisfying. I get it, pianists do this to build tension or whatever, but its not working. Its NOT WORKING. It just makes me MAD AS FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK. Thats why I often have to just stop listening to piano songs, even if the melody is beautiful, because they didnt use a metronome.

Practice with a metronome first so you internalize the rhythm, then jam to the song so you can groove with the dynamics of the band.

After a while you can internalise rhythm and it becomes so automatic in your head that you know when you're off. If you still have doubts just record and listen. I've always found metronomes to be more a hindrance that a help. They're not for everyone.

Very Canadian

Brandon it’s time for a haircut bud

Letterkenny vibes

actually he got a point

I never use metronomes and have a proven perfect sense of time but I have experience with both drums and bass along with playing guitar I love every piece of every song I listen to daily so why not become one with it the inate timing come with a long time and a lot of effort a metronome will help one learn timing much quicker and accurate the first time

I’m looking forward to your call tomorrow morning.

Too bad I’m just now seeing this

He just like me fr

So funny I started a blue grass course and started using a metronome after 15 years of playing without one. Fuck me it’s hard especially when every song is like 100 plus bpm lol

Okay but I think playing without a metronome every once in a while to check you pace or record along to a silent metronome would be good to test your feel

9 month guitar player here, I love playing but i'm scared to try out the metronome

It’s bad enough guitarist do this, my brother plays drums for my band and he just plays along with songs and doesn’t use a metronome and he gets extremely pissed at the rest of our band when we all play out of time. He won’t accept that he’s the problem and it make me mad

LMFAO so true.

What if I use a metronome when not playing guitar as well? Will that help me internalize the pulse?

Literally me

Damn. If only I wasn't poor af this holiday season.

Leave me alone 😢😢😢 . The metronome makes me very anxious

Basically me when I took lessons as a kid… man if I had had just a little bit more discipline and less autistic “I don’t like to get out of my comfort zone”

i dont have one 💀

*gasp* he has an orangewood 🥰🥰🥰

Funny but I’m still not using one

Sunglasses is WorldofTshirts

Personally I'm a player by ear and a metronome has not helped me one bit, mostly made practice and playing worse, I can play with a metronome but honestly just play by ear

Why are you making fun of me and how did you know that I talk like that?

Hey sounds like ole Greg lol

😢 I have pretty severe misophonia and the sound of a metronome makes me want to lash out in a ball of rage. I've taken to drum beats...

Bro, did u know that yo leg can be used as as a metronome?!

I lose my tempo everytime

true

okay anakin