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Yea, my metronome's off!

Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2017-06-14 19:33

As Andrey Lowy of the LA Phil points out, that's not a bad thing...

of course when I say "off" I don't mean to say that there's lack of equal time between beats, or, say, that the metronome clicks to the beat of a clock's second hand when set to 110:

https://youtu.be/uiKLu50KRoM?t=4m17s

I like what Mr. Lowy has to say here. The second version of Lowy's play felt, to me at least, more like he was playing to the beat of a fellow musician percussionist, not a robot, allowing him to focus more on musicality, and perhaps less (or differently) on meter.

This is NOT to imply that I believe etude study be done any way but conventionally.

Post Edited (2017-06-14 19:39)

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Re: Yea, my metronome's off!

Author: Fuzzy
Date: 2017-06-14 20:40

EDIT: Retracted my post...accidentally posted in response to wrong article.

Post Edited (2017-06-14 20:48)

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Re: Yea, my metronome's off!

Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2017-06-14 21:30

Mine is always off. In fact, I don't even own a metronome, never have. Perhaps that's why I'm still just an amateur

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