my timing
Gonna respond to several comments at once, dudes:
Originally Posted by
drummer
Laf, you're on the right track man. More than anything, tape yourself playing to the metronome and listen back to see how well you stayed with it or how steady you were. Maybe pick up a cheap drum machine to play along with. You can create some interesting patterns and it makes practicing to a metronome more fun.
There is no complete substitute for playin' with your band buddies, but drummer's suggestion is excellent! (You've also seen my answer in the Percussion thread, too.)
Originally Posted by
livewire80
Dave Weckl stumbled accross it one day while jaming with a mate. I think you need to have perfect time already to be able to play off time perfectly. Strangely enough you need really good timing to be able to play off time notes properly.
Reminds me of a comment I once read about actress Marion Lorne, whom you may remember as the stumbling, fumbling Aunt Clara on "Bewitched." A director couldn't understand why she was so worried about getting her lines perfect, to which she responded:
"I have to learn how to do this perfectly before I can screw it up." Same is true with off-time...
And middleman: on your line..."if you ain't groovin', they ain't movin'." And to get groovin', you have to start AND...
keep the beat goin' ... Don't keep it to yourself!
Charlie
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." --Henry David Thoreau, "Walden," 1854
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