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There are three elements of music, there's rhythm, melody and harmony, and to me, the most important
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and the oldest element of music is rhythm.
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And using a metronome can be a really great way to exercise the rhythm muscle.
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Now, Metronome is just a little click that sounds like this.
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And that said to 100 beats per minute, you can get a little metronome app on your smartphone, which
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works just fine and there's lots of great free options, but I'm using a little called Metronome Tuner
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Combo Unit here, which is quite handy.
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And, you know, if we have a song that we feel like.
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You know, we're struggling to get the changes between the courts to be smooth and maybe the picking
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pattern we're working on just feels a little bit stiff.
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Taking a metronome and practicing with it is a great thing to do.
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But one of the best practices you can adopt as as a musician is slowing that metronome down and working
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on playing things cleanly and smoothly and clearly at a slower tempo.
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So if we take a little fingerpicking pattern like this.
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I want to play that with a metronome and the metronome was going one, two, three, four, if I felt
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like, you know, it wasn't quite as smooth or articulate as I wanted, which it never is.
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You really have to train yourself to to to play with clarity and articulation in a clean technique,
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slowing it down to something like.
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Would be a great way to practice that little exercise, and I know it sounds boring and it's no fun
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to play really slow, you know, music that requires a lot of concentration.
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But deliberate practice is the key to making good progress on our instrument.
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And the metronome can be a wonderful, wonderful tool for ironing out the creases in our playing and
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making everything connect, sound smooth, sound cohesive.
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And and it's also a good reference point of, you know, how fast you can play a song or more importantly,
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how slowly you can play a song while still keeping the rhythm smooth and having a nice flow to it.
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So I really encourage you to practice with a metronome, especially as we get into the the little finger
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picking roles that we're going to go through in this course.
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Next up, we're going to talk about how to read a code diagram.
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