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Video Lesson

B. P. M.

Making friends with the metronome is very important because it will help you develop your sense of rhythm and keep your tempo consistent. If you practice with one, you will find that it helps you even when there is not one going. It will help you develop your "inner metronome". ;)

It's REALLY important that you can hear it clearly, so use headphones if you can't hear it very well, or leave it resting on top of your guitar where it is closer to your ear!

I recommend getting a digital metronome like the Korg MA-30 that I use for the video. I like "old skool" stuff, but the old "tick-tock" metronomes are limited in the tempos you can choose from and I think it is a very good idea to have one that can go at every tempo. I guess really any metronome will be fine as long as it's digital. The Korg seems to last pretty well, is well priced, but it's nothing special really. Just get yourself a digital one!

Remember that BPM means Beats Per Minute. 60bpm will be one click every second.

A very useful feature on some metronomes (like the Korg one) is the accents. For most of this course you will be playing in 4:4 time, so set the beat to 4, and that way it will accent beat the first beat of each bar with a different sound so you will always know where 1 is. Good for making sure you put in the right numbers of beats in each bar!

Metronomes are also good at inducing panic in people because you have to get things done at a consistent pace. If you are one of those many people that are quite inconsistent with your one minute changes, a small amount of time doing the changes with the metronome might well help you sort that out! Playing along and making sure you hit a chord with every beat (or every second click) is a really good way of developing your internal rhythm and panic control ;)

If you can't have budget for a metronome right now there are many online ones. A good place to start is www.webmetronome.com (which is ok, but a little unstable sometimes) or www.metronomeonline.com (which is more stable but not as flexible regarding tempo choices). These days I use mostly the iPhone app made by Frozen Ape called Tempo.

Now we are going to check out how to do amazing technical fast rock guitar, a variation of finger tapping in BC-126 • Foot Tapping, just joking. We're just going to be tapping out feet ;) wey hey....

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