![]() ![]() November Free Sheet Music: Erik Satie’s Gymnopedie No.December Free Holiday Sheet Music: Carol of the Bells and Rock of Ages.Happy Birthday Mozart! And Free Sheet Music.March Free Sheet Music: Playing The Blues.MAY Free Sheet Music: And Her Mother Came Too!.Subscribe Search for: Search Browse Previous Posts ![]() ![]() You will receive monthly free sheet music, practice tips and worksheets. Happy playing! With love and music, GailiĪuthor, Upper Hands Piano: A Method for Adults 50+ to SPARK the Mind, Heart and SoulĬheck out our awesome books, free sheet music and videos! Categories Piano Practice Tips Tags using a metronomeĮnter your email address to subscribe to this blog. If you hear the beat speeding up or slowing down as you play, blame it on the METRO GNOME! Beats, or you can download a free metronome app on your iphone or ipad. There are the large plastic or the beautiful old-fashioned wooden box metronomes, the German Mini Taktells, the small rectangular black boxes with dials, the digital Dr. It’s fun to keep speeding it up incrementally to challenge yourself to play your scale or exercise more quickly while keeping it even. Playing exercises and scales to a metronome is the best way to practice keeping a steady beat. However, for pieces that require an emotional performance, it’s best to use a metronome just for isolated phrases. More advanced students can play an entire piece to a metronome if they need help keeping the beat steady, or keeping their sixteenths, eighths and quarters aligned. Just use the metronome for a 1-3 measures at a time, to get your eighth notes even, and to make sure you’re holding your quarter notes twice as long as the eighths. If the piece has eighth notes, set your metronome to a tempo at which you can keep the eighth notes steady, allowing 1 beat per eighth note, and two beats per quarter note, etc. They can also set the metronome to 60-80 bpm and play the EXERCISES #1-#4 in Upper Hands Piano, BOOK 1.įor the intermediate student, a metronome can be useful for scale practice, or for passages in a piece (such as a Bach prelude) that don’t involve a lot of changes in tempo or dynamics. Next the beginner might try doubling the speed of their clapping as if they were playing eighth notes to the beat. They can start using a metronome by setting it at a slow speed such as 70 bpm (beats per minute) and clapping or tapping their foot to the beat, as if they were playing quarter notes. My feeling is that metronomes can be greatly beneficial to use while playing exercises, playing pieces that don’t have tempo (time) and dynamic (volume) fluctuations, or to even out groups of quarter or eighth notes in a phrase.įor beginning students, being able to listen to a metronome while playing can be an impossible task. There is some controversy in music education circles about when metronomes are useful and effective. It seemed to me that the metro gnome capriciously sped up and slowed down while I was playing! But of course it was me not quite keeping a steady beat. As a fan of the 1967 Disney film, The Gnome Mobile, I naturally imagined a tiny gnome inside of the wooden box, pulling the pendulum back and forth. When I was a child my piano teacher wanted me to practice with a metronome. ![]()
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