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I'm working on practicing with a metronome. I have it set at 90 BPM for a class project. My timing is getting better. My intonation still needs some more practice.
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Keep up the great work!
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but the one who needs the least."
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Thanks! I'm working on getting the metronome settings right. I think this might have been a bit faster than I intended it to be. The electronic metronomes confuse me. I wanted to play in 6/8 time at 90 BPM but I think it counts differently that I think it does.
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chrisram03 said
Thanks! I'm working on getting the metronome settings right. I think this might have been a bit faster than I intended it to be. The electronic metronomes confuse me. I wanted to play in 6/8 time at 90 BPM but I think it counts differently that I think it does.
That's because 6/8 is a compound time signature. In 6/8, one beat is a dotted quarter note (three eighth notes).
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AndrewH said
That's because 6/8 is a compound time signature. In 6/8, one beat is a dotted quarter note (three eighth notes).
It can be either as AndrewH says or one beat can be one eighth note as well.
"The richest person is not the one who has the most,
but the one who needs the least."
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I think this is great. IF I get to take lessons, this will be the main thing that I learn to do. I spend a lot of time listen to music and practicing foot tapping... but I do need to inculcate that to my own practice.
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Thanks for the help understanding what the time signature is. The electronic metronomes are a bit weird in that if you set them to 6/8 90 bpm they will be too fast. I think setting the metronome to 1/4 at 90 counts more accurately.
hello chrisramo3: have you considered practicing this scale in 2 octaves over 4 strings? starting on G string, 1st finger, A note. You can still use open strings where they occur ie: open D, open A, open E. I don't think it would be that much harder for you, but it would be much more beneficial for several reasons.
