Metronome
noun
A device that makes regular ticking sounds to help a musician keep the correct speed or rhythm when playing a piece of music.
She set the metronome to 120 beats per minute to practise her piano piece.
Often appears as...
- set the metronome
- practice with a metronome
noun
In computing, it is a routine or device that provides a regular timing signal or a consistent pace.
The metronome in the system ensures that all processes are performed in a timely manner.
Often appears as...
- system metronome
- metronome software
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
noun
A device that makes regular ticking sounds to help a musician keep the correct speed or rhythm when playing a piece of music.
She set the metronome to 120 beats per minute to practise her piano piece.
Often appears as...
- set the metronome
- practice with a metronome
noun
In computing, it is a routine or device that provides a regular timing signal or a consistent pace.
The metronome in the system ensures that all processes are performed in a timely manner.
Often appears as...
- system metronome
- metronome software
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Music Practice
Used mainly for perfecting timing when learning and practicing musical instruments.
Her violin teacher recommended using a metronome to improve her timing.
Pro Tip 2/3Beat Control
Adjust the metronome to match the tempo (speed) desired for the music piece.
For this song, set your metronome to 90 beats per minute.
Pro Tip 3/3Steady Rhythm
Listen to the metronome's consistent ticking to maintain a steady rhythm while playing.
Focus on the metronome's ticks to keep your rhythm consistent through the piece.
Pro Tip 1/3Music Practice
Used mainly for perfecting timing when learning and practicing musical instruments.
Her violin teacher recommended using a metronome to improve her timing.
Pro Tip 2/3Beat Control
Adjust the metronome to match the tempo (speed) desired for the music piece.
For this song, set your metronome to 90 beats per minute.
Pro Tip 3/3Steady Rhythm
Listen to the metronome's consistent ticking to maintain a steady rhythm while playing.
Focus on the metronome's ticks to keep your rhythm consistent through the piece.
Pro Tip 1/3Music Practice
Used mainly for perfecting timing when learning and practicing musical instruments.
Her violin teacher recommended using a metronome to improve her timing.
Pro Tip 2/3Beat Control
Adjust the metronome to match the tempo (speed) desired for the music piece.
For this song, set your metronome to 90 beats per minute.
Pro Tip 3/3Steady Rhythm
Listen to the metronome's consistent ticking to maintain a steady rhythm while playing.
Focus on the metronome's ticks to keep your rhythm consistent through the piece.
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Charles Limb: Your brain...
that is spontaneously generated, or improvised, in a way that's matched motorically and in terms of lower-level sensory motor features? I have here what we call the paradigms. There's a scale paradigm, which is playing a scale up and down, memorized, then there's improvising on a scale, quarter notes, metronome, right hand -- scientifically very safe,
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Chasing Rivers, Part 2:...
and you feel the metronome clang of bells vibrating inside your chest and a wave of furnace-like heat consuming everything in its reach, you realize how removed you truly are from the ritual of death." That was the most run-on sentence I've ever written in my life, but I liked it.
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Tick Tock PIPE National...
keeping perfect time don't even stop I want to try and align several metronome so that they all tick together at exactly the same time I've gathered all the musicians in the store and told them they can use anything they want from the shop to help them out question for you
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Asher Jay: Art as a...
juxtaposing this tree ring into it, and then trying to find ways in which I can show how time is lapsing for the species. The primary horn became a sand timer, but a blood timer so every drop that falls is adding to that narrative of loss. The secondary horn is a metronome
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Your brain on improv -...
matched motorically and in terms of lower lower level sensory motor features and so I have here what we call the paradigms there's a scale paradigm which is just playing a scale up and down memorized and then there's improvising on a scale quarter notes metronome right
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What Does 'Genius' Mean?...
Most people would agree that, whoever the geniuses are-- and you could say it's the people that can combine ideas that are staring everyone else in the face, but they somehow connect something that no one's even thought about. Like Mozart's metronome.
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Time Is But a Stubborn...
Is time universal? In other words, is there an audible tick-tock throughout the galaxy, a master clock, so to speak, forging ahead like Mozart's metronome? The answer my friends is no. Time is not absolute.
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Wolverine Research Isn’t...
in you know I think the hard part is the bit it's a climate we haven't been into before I think it's gonna be cold it could be real cold even I gotta call snot metronome it helps me keep time
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Steven Strogatz: How...
I have some metronomes here. Can you hear that? All right, so, I've got a metronome, and it's the world's smallest metronome, the -- well, I shouldn't advertise.
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Cacophony is the...
and plastic pipes became trumpets because I hadn't had the chance to study music formally my personal metronome was the complex cacophony of sounds in a
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Charles Limb: Your brain...
that is spontaneously generated, or improvised, in a way that's matched motorically and in terms of lower-level sensory motor features? I have here what we call the paradigms. There's a scale paradigm, which is playing a scale up and down, memorized, then there's improvising on a scale, quarter notes, metronome, right hand -- scientifically very safe,
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Chasing Rivers, Part 2:...
and you feel the metronome clang of bells vibrating inside your chest and a wave of furnace-like heat consuming everything in its reach, you realize how removed you truly are from the ritual of death." That was the most run-on sentence I've ever written in my life, but I liked it.
Video examples
Tick Tock PIPE National...
keeping perfect time don't even stop I want to try and align several metronome so that they all tick together at exactly the same time I've gathered all the musicians in the store and told them they can use anything they want from the shop to help them out question for you
Video examples
Asher Jay: Art as a...
juxtaposing this tree ring into it, and then trying to find ways in which I can show how time is lapsing for the species. The primary horn became a sand timer, but a blood timer so every drop that falls is adding to that narrative of loss. The secondary horn is a metronome
Video examples
Your brain on improv -...
matched motorically and in terms of lower lower level sensory motor features and so I have here what we call the paradigms there's a scale paradigm which is just playing a scale up and down memorized and then there's improvising on a scale quarter notes metronome right
Video examples
What Does 'Genius' Mean?...
Most people would agree that, whoever the geniuses are-- and you could say it's the people that can combine ideas that are staring everyone else in the face, but they somehow connect something that no one's even thought about. Like Mozart's metronome.
Video examples
Time Is But a Stubborn...
Is time universal? In other words, is there an audible tick-tock throughout the galaxy, a master clock, so to speak, forging ahead like Mozart's metronome? The answer my friends is no. Time is not absolute.
Video examples
Wolverine Research Isn’t...
in you know I think the hard part is the bit it's a climate we haven't been into before I think it's gonna be cold it could be real cold even I gotta call snot metronome it helps me keep time
Video examples
Steven Strogatz: How...
I have some metronomes here. Can you hear that? All right, so, I've got a metronome, and it's the world's smallest metronome, the -- well, I shouldn't advertise.
Video examples
Cacophony is the...
and plastic pipes became trumpets because I hadn't had the chance to study music formally my personal metronome was the complex cacophony of sounds in a
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John Petrucci
American Musician
I've listened to musicians who say that using a metronone makes you robotic, that it decreases your 'feel.' That's ridiculous. Either you have feel or you don't. Feel is one of those intangibles that can't be taught. But if you do have feel, using a metronome will allow you to play cleaner - and that'll make your 'feel' have more, well, 'feeling.
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Jim Root
American Musician
I'll admit that I don't have a lot of discipline when it comes to practicing. I'm not the type of guy who sits at home with a metronome and runs through scales and stuff like that. But I do go through phases when I'll be more diligent, and I notice that warming up and working on some patterns will make my playing cleaner.
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Ruggiero Ricci
American Musician
So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.
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John Petrucci
American Musician
To me, there's no question that using a metronome develops your speed and accuracy. If you're learning scales or you're jamming on parts that you can't quite pull off, it's a must.
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Synyster Gates
American Musician
I think it's beneficial to practice with a metronome or drum machine in order to strengthen your sense of time. It will help your concept of time and improve your feel.
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John Petrucci
American Musician
When you use a metronome, you'll start to notice where the notes are falling, if they're on the beat, behind the beat, between the beat, and so on.
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Chris Slade
Welsh Musician
Even Angus says that Malcolm is a better guitarist than he is. He makes the drummer's job so easy, he's a metronome.
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Brian Setzer
American Musician
I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.
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Michael Shannon
American Actor
The stage is a routine. It keeps you grounded, like a metronome. I find that soothing.
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Yoko Ono
American Artist
Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
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John Petrucci
American Musician
I've listened to musicians who say that using a metronone makes you robotic, that it decreases your 'feel.' That's ridiculous. Either you have feel or you don't. Feel is one of those intangibles that can't be taught. But if you do have feel, using a metronome will allow you to play cleaner - and that'll make your 'feel' have more, well, 'feeling.
Quote examples
Jim Root
American Musician
I'll admit that I don't have a lot of discipline when it comes to practicing. I'm not the type of guy who sits at home with a metronome and runs through scales and stuff like that. But I do go through phases when I'll be more diligent, and I notice that warming up and working on some patterns will make my playing cleaner.
Quote examples
Ruggiero Ricci
American Musician
So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.
Quote examples
John Petrucci
American Musician
To me, there's no question that using a metronome develops your speed and accuracy. If you're learning scales or you're jamming on parts that you can't quite pull off, it's a must.
Quote examples
Synyster Gates
American Musician
I think it's beneficial to practice with a metronome or drum machine in order to strengthen your sense of time. It will help your concept of time and improve your feel.
Quote examples
John Petrucci
American Musician
When you use a metronome, you'll start to notice where the notes are falling, if they're on the beat, behind the beat, between the beat, and so on.
Quote examples
Chris Slade
Welsh Musician
Even Angus says that Malcolm is a better guitarist than he is. He makes the drummer's job so easy, he's a metronome.
Quote examples
Brian Setzer
American Musician
I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.
Quote examples
Michael Shannon
American Actor
The stage is a routine. It keeps you grounded, like a metronome. I find that soothing.
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Yoko Ono
American Artist
Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
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