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I have the Soundbrenner and had it for a couple of years. I use it sometimes, but like the Boss DB 90 better, it actually has a voice count 1, 2, 3,... or I and, or I e and a... Rhythm is my weakness. I have used the Soundbrenner at lessons, my teacher says you have to anticipate the beat, if I wait to the next vibrate I am slightly behind. I think the Soundbrenner is a good idea, but struggling with rhythm the actual count is better for me.
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Today most music in the top 40 are edit and produce by Pro Tool or Logic Pro. They use software to create a rhythm track. They record the musicians and edit the recording with beat marking, time stretching so everyone fall exactly on the beat. They can modify the voice of the singer so he's in tune. Blues is a kind of music where musicians play before or after the beat or varying the tempo. Today music is produced by computers and have a perfect tempo but if I listen to old recordings or classical music, tempo modulates throughout the piece and even vary within a phrase. I wonder if having a constant tempo is important. What "music" of today that is produced by computers are you talking about? Certainly live performance practices haven't changed so much that we can now say that modern performers play at a "constant tempo" while past artists were inconsistent in maintaining tempo. Regards,
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Good point ! Today music is produced by computers and have a perfect tempo but if I listen to old recordings or classical music, tempo modulates throughout the piece and even vary within a phrase. I wonder if having a constant tempo is important. What "music" of today that is produced by computers are you talking about? Certainly live performance practices haven't changed so much that we can now say that modern performers play at a "constant tempo" while past artists were inconsistent in maintaining tempo. Regards, I think it’s important to be able to play in time before playing out of time.
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Today music is produced by computers and have a perfect tempo but if I listen to old recordings or classical music, tempo modulates throughout the piece and even vary within a phrase. I wonder if having a constant tempo is important. What "music" of today that is produced by computers are you talking about? Certainly live performance practices haven't changed so much that we can now say that modern performers play at a "constant tempo" while past artists were inconsistent in maintaining tempo. Regards, I think it’s important to be able to play in time before playing out of time. That’s what my teacher tells me. Rhythm, right now is the ‘mountain’ I need to climb. I can’t avoid it anymore. Not that I need to justify my purchase. I am not. However, everyone’s brain is wired differently. Audible metronome just doesn’t help me as I buildup my tempo. My teacher has recommended many methods..to no avail. I just loose the ‘signal’. I have found tapping helps when doing one hand practice, and slow practice. 🤣 life is too short to be miserable when there is hope/help! LarryK: I am training for a marathon. Was supposed to run it 15 years ago..life happened. I have changed the reason why and how I am doing it. Yup, I am not training with any race clubs for the sheer pressure that I don’t need. There are great run coaches on internet, I am working on hills and endurance- just wanna finish strong and to enjoy it [as best I can!] 😬.
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In spite of age that classifies me as a fossil or a dinosaur, I do like technology and use it when I find it useful. I can't see the advantage to this device over a traditional metronome or a metronome app on my cell phone. I wouldn't invest money to have a buzzing, pulsing, flashing device on my wrist while practicing.
For those who can't use a traditional metronome - why not, by the way? - how is this device - another version of an electronic metronome - going to help, or will it become a crutch that one has to rely on all the time?
Regards, I find the metronome built into my digital piano unsatisfactory. I most often want to use the metronome when I am playing with headphones. When I am practicing something that needs me to be using a metronome this is when I really don't want to be making others suffer hearing my practise. In this case an external metronome is not much use to me, to make an external metronome loud enough I can hear it over the piano played through my headphones defeats the purpose. I am skeptical about the Soundbrenner but I'd like to hear of others experience.
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Today music is produced by computers and have a perfect tempo but if I listen to old recordings or classical music, tempo modulates throughout the piece and even vary within a phrase. I wonder if having a constant tempo is important. What "music" of today that is produced by computers are you talking about? Certainly live performance practices haven't changed so much that we can now say that modern performers play at a "constant tempo" while past artists were inconsistent in maintaining tempo. Regards, I think it’s important to be able to play in time before playing out of time. That’s what my teacher tells me. Rhythm, right now is the ‘mountain’ I need to climb. I can’t avoid it anymore. Not that I need to justify my purchase. I am not. However, everyone’s brain is wired differently. Audible metronome just doesn’t help me as I buildup my tempo. My teacher has recommended many methods..to no avail. I just loose the ‘signal’. I have found tapping helps when doing one hand practice, and slow practice. 🤣 life is too short to be miserable when there is hope/help! LarryK: I am training for a marathon. Was supposed to run it 15 years ago..life happened. I have changed the reason why and how I am doing it. Yup, I am not training with any race clubs for the sheer pressure that I don’t need. There are great run coaches on internet, I am working on hills and endurance- just wanna finish strong and to enjoy it [as best I can!] 😬. Given what lessons cost, I’m willing to drop a hundred bucks here and there to try to improve the learning process. I bought a drum pad and a couple of sticks for $30 and work on rhythm that way. I am also working with PianoMarvel in order to improve my rhythm. Your score drops when you’re late playing a note. I write in my pieces using StaffPad and I use MuseScore to put in the fingerings and I export musicXML and midi files that I then import into PianoMarvel. Good luck with the marathon! I think enjoying a marathon means running a pace that is whatever your race pace is from McMillan’s calculator minus a minute or more, haha. I wasn’t going to have any fun, I was going to try to run my race pace. That guy who ran twenty five New York City marathons in a row was able to negative split the course, which is amazing, because the last 10k is uphill, a slight incline, but a relentless one.
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I made a mistake, I meant add a minute to your pace, haha!
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I made a mistake, I meant add a minute to your pace, haha! 🤣 I knew what you meant! Thank you. This is the big ‘A’ game for the year, a lot to chew on. Wow, thanks for all the tips. I use forescore, and it ends up looking like a coloring book after all fingering, notes, comments from teacher. A work of art! There is a thread on pianomarvel. I will need to read it.. Rhythm and temp are my B game for the year. Joy!
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