Re: Practice with Metronomes
Now you don't have to get this one, but for me, this has been my fail-safe time-keeper/click/metronome/whatever for a long time, the Roland R-70 drum machine. What I like to do is to have either a simple quarter note cowbell/woodblock or a very simple pattern with 4 quarter note cowbells to the bar, 1/8th notes shaker (or triplets, depending what I'm playing) and a tambourine hit on beat 1.
The best thing about it though, is that I have a choice of four different simple bass sounds....electric, acoustic stand up bass, slap bass or synth bass (very 80's!) I call it my lil' "Drummer's Revenge".....because I'm fairly familiar with programming simple melodies and bass lines, can you imagine what it's like to have a perfect playing bassist, who will never be thrown off when you want to do trickier drum stuff like beat displacement, polyrhythms or time signature changes? Of course, as a drummer firstly you will need some decent time playing in 4/4 covered, but when time really becomes locked in with you and you know what's going on with the music 100%, then you can push it further. But yeah, playing and practicing consistently with a metronome or click is a skill that you cannot ignore.
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