I got a similar advice. The metronome would destroy musical expression. I awake when playing together with others - playing correctly in time is a MUST for playing in an ensemple.
In the meantime im using a metronome, first to slow down the speed to practice carefully and then speed up in steps of 10 beats usually 20 or 30 beats over the speed I have choosen for the piece. This helps to find security in playing. In my personal case I always tried to practice too fast and the metronome helps me to play slowly through a piece (funny - I am teling my pupils to practice slow, the speed would come by itself, but I by myself too often am not following my own advice). Best wishes Thomas Am Die, 2003-11-04 um 23.47 schrieb Herbert Ward: > 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? -- Thomas Schall Niederhofheimer Weg 3 D-65843 Sulzbach 06196/74519 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.lautenist.de / www.tslaute.de/weiss --
