Using a Metronome with a Tenor Saxophone

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Hi! This is Dave Birkin and on behalf of expertvillage.com, I am going to talk to you a little bit about practicing with the metronome. I find that especially when I want to practice jazz, it is important to have a steady tempo. And the metronome just does that for you, you know, you can practice at different tempos, you know, you adjust it, and it’s very scientifically, mathematically designed that you can be very incremental in developing speed or even more challenging sometimes is to play it, is to hold a good steady slow tempo. What I do is I imagine that the click from the metronome is the high hat of a drummer, so you know, most people when they hear this ticking, they are going to think kind of think it is like one, two, three, four, but I do not hear it that way, I hear it is two, four, two, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, ….that is the jazz beat. So basically you do not have to buy yourself this, you know, these sophisticated drum machines in order to practice, you know effectively and actually you have the feeling that you are playing jazz, you just sort of put that metronome and now say that is one, two, you that is two, four, two, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four.

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