>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".
There are many ways to use a metronome without dependence. The main way I use it (when I do) is to force myself to play slowly. >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? Sure, in any DAW (digital audio workstation). It is a matter of looking at the waveform of a recording and then aligning beats to it. This creates a tempo map which can be viewed as a graphic representation (a scrolling strip chart) or a readout of MM speeds per beat. cheers, -- Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/
