Does sleeping with a metronome help your rhythm? | Q+A #50

Also, “Why do transposing instruments exist?” “Why do English speakers call 1 the “do”? and “What is syncopation?”

Many thanks to konrad lindström, Dr. Kuleuss, Dastrio, king kilburn, Ethan Mach, owned 3, and Soumadip Choudhury for their insightful questions!

Reinforcing rhythms in the sleeping brain with a computerized metronome

12Tone’s excellent video on naming notes

Solmization and the Guidonian hand in the 16th century
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My original big band music (shameless plug)

0:18 Why do transposing instruments exist?
1:34 Does sleeping with a metronome help your rhythm?
2:53 Why do English speakers call 1 the “do”?
7:00 Why do brass instruments sound not like they do in real life when recorded?
8:19 What is syncopation?
9:27 How do you learn songs so fast?
10:23 Why did you choose bass as your main instrument?
11:11 Too much information!

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[eljestLiv]

I wouldn't recommend sleeping with a metronome. They aren't capable of emotions, making the lovemaking process much less pleasurable. 0/10 wouldn't metrobone

[MusicTeacherGuyNorristown]

I slept with a metronome once, and nine months later there was a little stopwatch.

[RudyAyoub]

does sleeping with a frying pan help your cooking?

[Jaburu]

a metronome with 60bpm is a clock hahaha.
people used to sleep with loudish clocks decades ago.

[creativemusicmakingworksho]

This guy is a national treasure. I've never known a music teacher who is so clear and concise in his explanations. I could build a whole curriculum of Adam Neely videos.

[maartenarnou]

10:30", harmonic control. As Sting said: "A chord is not a chord until the bass player decides what to play". Don't we love it? 😎 👍

[Weaverbeats]

Does sleeping with a metronome help you go insane? Yes

[AdamNeely]

Yo. I uploaded this video 2 hours ago, but there was a strange encoding error on YouTube's side that made it impossible to playback on desktop, so I had to re-upload.

I suspect it's because I've started experimenting with 4k uploads. Sorry about that! Let me know if the 4k is even worth it to you guys.

[GreatFlamingEyebrows_]

So what your saying is, I’m not playing wrong notes on bass, everyone else is putting the wrong notes on top of my chord?

Step up guys!

[CooperAATE]

"You don't know what you don't know."

Hell, I don't know what I know.

[woodfur]

That last answer! I decided a long time ago that anything I learn is something that could be useful one day, and I like the person it's made me.

Also, I've got a specialized metronome that plays 1 Hz quietly, 24 hours a day. I've heard it called a "clock."

[Sutherland]

Not sure if someone's already pointed this out, but many people do sleep with a metronome at 60bpm every night: the clock on the wall! Very interesting to think that it might have actually improved some skills. Guess I need to get a louder clock :P

[ezetosan]

You keep answering yourself in the thumbnail, love it

[mediawolf]

When I was a working musician I parlayed my really strong relative pitch into absolute pitch by waking up every morning, singing what I thought C was, and checking it against my piano. Took a month or so.

[jul]

You're like my musical soul mate. Everything you teach I either agree completely, or I learn something new that makes so much sense and complete what I already knew. Example: the reason you gave for why you liked bass, it made me realize I that it's the reason why I like it too, yet I could never fully put my finger on it. Thanks for that!

[EzyoMusic]

I like how your reason for choosing bass is exactly what I discovered I love about bass playing. I enjoy having a harmonic structure in place and throwing it out the window as soon as I get to bass.

[mememem]

As long as the metronome is pitched to A432

[DojoOfCool]

Live vs Recorded music as you mentioned big band music. The way it was explained to me back in the Jurassic era when I was a recording engineer. That recording gear, mic's, consoles, tape (yes, I'm old) and so on for the most part only handle the range of the human ear 20 hz to 20K hz. But in real world of live sound and music there are sounds up to 100K hz being generated, we can't hear those sounds, but they do bounce around in the club, room, concert hall affecting the sounds we do hear canceling (phase cancelation) and emphasizing different frequencies we do hear. Thats why when recording there are some many tracks doubling, other instruments, and other things that get mix low to try and fill up the recorded sound. One album I worked on the artist recorded the tracks in his home studio that was so dead it sucked the life out of everything recorded. To get some life back into his tracks we put a PA speaker under a piano with speaker close to the soundboard, Then we put a weight on the sustain pedal and mic the strings of the piano. Then we made a rough mix and sent that out to the PA speaker and recorded the sympathetic vibration of the piano's strings. That got us some overtones and life back into the dead sounding tracks. that we mixed into the song underneath everything.

[pandastrat]

I’m Italian and of course the notion of movable Do had always confused me, as explained by English-speakers, here on the internet. Now I actually understand why 😂 thanks!!

[MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs]

Well, I've been sleeping with my wife for the last ten years and it didn't help me with rhythm, even though and snores in a steady rhythm. 🤔