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john of MT
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john of MT
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07/08/2020 5:11 pm

For the longest time I used the first version of the GT metronome, preferring it to the update (to be fair, I haven't looked at GT's current metronome in a couple years). Recently though, I've been using one from Session Town found here; https://www.sessiontown.com/en/music-games-apps/free-online-metronome-app All online metronomes have their pluses and minuses, IMO, with those based on Flash noted for having accuracy problems. But I like this one; it covers the basics such as setting the BPM and the timing of the accent. The accent can be turned off too which is a useful feature when learning new 'stuff.'

The downer is the lack of an automatic BPM increase, called "Speed Drill" by the old GT metronome. That's a great feature of the GT ticker but the Session Town metronome must be individually set for each speed change and then, once started and run through each of the increases the cycle ends... there's no repeat and no BPM increase beyond whatever speeds were each manually and individually set.

FYI, many (most?) instructors suggest very slow/small increases of BPM when trying to increase your playing speed, i.e., increase the BPM by tiny steps, don't jump it up like the major increases found in the "slow motion" function of the GT lesson videos.

Good luck, have fun.


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