Many musicians, using a metronome for the first time, find, to their surprise, that their beat is not steady, even during "simple" music.
Despite this, a music teacher, whom I respected, recommended that students not use metronomes, in order to avoid "metronome dependence". The best of both worlds might lie in a "passive metronome". Instead of beeping/clicking/blinking, it would listen to you, and generate a display of your MM rate on a scrolling strip chart, which you could glance at from time to time (say, after a troublesome time division). Has anyone ever seen a device like this? Other comments?
