Which Metronomes Are Good For Jazz?
Learn Jazz Standards Podcast
Brent Vaartstra: Jazz Musician, Author, and Entrepreneur
4.8 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:29.5 | That's LJSinnerCircle.com or find the link in the show notes. |
| 0:34.8 | Now, on to today's episode. |
| 0:53.3 | Music the show notes. Now, on to today's episode. Hey, what's up? Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards. Welcome to another episode of the Learn |
| 0:58.5 | Jazz Standards podcast where I'm answering your jazz questions five days a week to make jazz |
| 1:03.0 | feel easier and so that you can have a lot more fun playing music. We have a great question |
| 1:09.8 | that's been asked today. This one comes from Kathy Freeman, |
| 1:13.4 | so let's give it a listen. Good evening from Berlin. I'm interested in hearing something |
| 1:20.6 | about metronomes, which kinds you recommend, specifically the pulse metronome, which works by feel rather than by listening to a sound. |
| 1:31.5 | Thank you. |
| 1:32.9 | Thanks for the great question, Kathy. |
| 1:34.5 | Metronomes are obviously a tool that is often recommended for a variety of different |
| 1:41.1 | musical styles, not just jazz. |
| 1:43.2 | And the goal being to help you develop this |
| 1:45.7 | sense of internal time. And in yesterday's episode, we talked a little bit about this problem of |
| 1:51.7 | sometimes getting lost in the form or feeling you have to count when you're solo. And that's not |
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