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Rhythm issue (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I cannot play on time. Not in terms of missing beats, or losing the click in the middle of a song, but in that my timing is almost always off. I compared my played notes to the click in the DAW, and I'm usually rushing, sometimes by 30-40ms. I remember Adam Neely said once that 10ms is barely acceptable, so yeah.

I tried dividing the distance between clicks in my head, doubling the metronome tempo, moving with the beat, consciously conpensating for the rush, nothing helped. Therefore, my questions - how's your timing doing? What can I do to improve mine?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"10ms is barely acceptable" ๐Ÿคฃ I'm sorry, but that's the funniest thing I've read so far today. Do you realize how little of the music you hear on a daily basis meets that criteria?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sure, not that relevant to my question though

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Let me put it a different way: your premise was that a level of precision with less than 10ms of variance is necessary. I'm saying that much of the library of recorded music demonstrates that this is not the case.

If your premise is simply, "I'd like to be more precise with my timing," then by all means. It sounds like you're already doing the right thing though: lots of practice with a click track. There's not really a shortcut to forcing your synapses to fire with that level of precision, you just have to keep doing it.

There's an old joke about someone in New York asking for directions... "How do you get to the Met?" "Practice"

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Thanks, appreciate it