{"id":967,"date":"2025-12-10T02:21:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T02:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/?p=967"},"modified":"2025-12-10T02:21:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T02:21:55","slug":"starting-to-use-a-metronome-in-daily-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/10\/starting-to-use-a-metronome-in-daily-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting to Use a Metronome in Daily Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I am starting to use a metronome.  I&#8217;ve seen enough YouTube videos now where they say you really should be doing <strong>*everything*<\/strong> to a quantized beat.  Especially beginners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So today marks the date.  I start today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did an hour of left hand quarter note strokes at 60 bpm.  I think that&#8217;s about as fast as I can go right now and keep it steady for long streaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other thing I notice is that I practiced for longer stretches at a time.   When I was practicing strokes without a metronome, I could cycle between doing them fast and then taking a break and doing a slow period.  But a consistent tempo kept me going at it longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And finally, I like that I can then measure my progress better.  Someday, for example, I&#8217;ll be able to do 65 bpm.  And I&#8217;ll now how many weeks it took me to get there or how long I have plateaued etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, all hail the metronome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or should it be metro<em>gnome<\/em>?  I&#8217;m envisioning a little spirit creature, but dressed with modern sensibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/60bpm-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/60bpm-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/60bpm-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/60bpm-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/60bpm-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/60bpm-2048x1542.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I am starting to use a metronome. I&#8217;ve seen enough YouTube videos now where they say you really should be doing *everything* to a quantized beat. Especially beginners. So today marks the date. I start today. I did an hour of left hand quarter note strokes at 60 bpm. I think that&#8217;s about as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drumming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnycarlos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}