Google how to use metronome. I suspect you don't know what is a full, quater, 8th, 16th, 32th notes are. You need to know that, and you will get the answear to your question.
I think I know what they are. A full note is the one that last the entire bar, a quarter note lasts one fourth of of a bar so one bar of 4th notes would have four notes (if the time signature is 4/4), right? Tbf tho whenever i play i just sort of "feel" the metronome, which sounds dumb and probably is.
Also when I google it, it's just 20 different sites that say the same thing: "set up your metronome to a slow pace and play" only a couple of them mentioned time signatures but none of them explained it too much other then "just set it to 4/4"
I'm really sorry if I'm being a pain right now, I just don't want do anything wrong.
I don't fully understand it either and starting off, for some reason players assume we should know, i have a teacher, and i'm 49 18 months playing and still don't get it.
But what i do know is that on an electric metronome, the 4th click is louder, so start your bar of whatever on that beat, then play your next three equally before the loud beat again. thats "4 note/strum timing" to me. the speed of the metro then should set out the spacing between them. So when you strum and go 1, 2, 3 4. The next heavy click is your 1 again, so if you have 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and... in your head for the music, if you play a note for the count and the "and" thats 8 note bars. When you put in the "e" into your count it becomes 16. On a metro nome, its very hard to fill in those spaces starting off. A drum machine keeping beats is much more natural, the foot drum would be the loud click on a metronome. if your strumming, the upstrum would usually be the "and" in 8 notes. and the "and" after the 4th is your change over to the next chord strum
Its confusing for me too, but you'll start getting a natural feel for it too.
Not necessarily, if you would sweep with every note on the beat in 4/4 you would be playing quarter notes. These people you mentioned are not playing quarter notes, they're playing shit like 8ths(2 notes per beat), triplets(3 notes per beat), 16th notes(4 notes per beat) etc, these are called subdivisions of the beat
What you also need to know is how to count when the notes exceed quarters, what goes on in between beats
You know how to count quarters in 4/4 right? 1, 2, 3, 4 yeah?
Let's say the next bar is in 8ths, then it's
1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1.. etc, every number + 'and' being a note
What about 16th notes then?
1 e and a 2 e and a 3 e and a 4 e and a 1.. etc
Now adding 'e' and 'a' to signify notes
No, you're not expected to count that when playing in moderate to high speeds. When you've drilled these subdivisions on the metronome enough it just comes naturally in playing
Going back to the question, if your goal is to play quarter notes then yeah all the notes should land on a click but if you want to play more notes than one per beat upping the BPM isn't the answer, use subdivisions
It depends how many notes are in the arpeggio, ascending and descending.
The average 5 string sweep that I would most commonly use (because it's easiest in my opinion) has 12 notes. This means you could could time the metronome in triplets as someone else mentioned: 1,2,3 - 4,5,6 - 7,8,9 - 10,11,12... with the beat of the metronome falling on the 1, 4, 7, and 10th notes of the sweep.
The reason you see people doing the whole arppegio on one click is because the faster you go the more ridiculous it would be to have the click dividing the sweep. You probably won't necessarily get a smooth motion from practicing like that though.
Also an aside, make sure when you practice these that you are not plucking individual strings, the pick should be gliding down and up the strings with almost the same mechanics as a guitar strum if it was slowed down so that each note was rung out independently and muted independently. The muting technique takes some trial and error, and practice to get down.
Google how to use metronome. I suspect you don't know what is a full, quater, 8th, 16th, 32th notes are. You need to know that, and you will get the answear to your question.
I think I know what they are. A full note is the one that last the entire bar, a quarter note lasts one fourth of of a bar so one bar of 4th notes would have four notes (if the time signature is 4/4), right? Tbf tho whenever i play i just sort of "feel" the metronome, which sounds dumb and probably is. Also when I google it, it's just 20 different sites that say the same thing: "set up your metronome to a slow pace and play" only a couple of them mentioned time signatures but none of them explained it too much other then "just set it to 4/4" I'm really sorry if I'm being a pain right now, I just don't want do anything wrong.
I don't fully understand it either and starting off, for some reason players assume we should know, i have a teacher, and i'm 49 18 months playing and still don't get it. But what i do know is that on an electric metronome, the 4th click is louder, so start your bar of whatever on that beat, then play your next three equally before the loud beat again. thats "4 note/strum timing" to me. the speed of the metro then should set out the spacing between them. So when you strum and go 1, 2, 3 4. The next heavy click is your 1 again, so if you have 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and... in your head for the music, if you play a note for the count and the "and" thats 8 note bars. When you put in the "e" into your count it becomes 16. On a metro nome, its very hard to fill in those spaces starting off. A drum machine keeping beats is much more natural, the foot drum would be the loud click on a metronome. if your strumming, the upstrum would usually be the "and" in 8 notes. and the "and" after the 4th is your change over to the next chord strum Its confusing for me too, but you'll start getting a natural feel for it too.
Not necessarily, if you would sweep with every note on the beat in 4/4 you would be playing quarter notes. These people you mentioned are not playing quarter notes, they're playing shit like 8ths(2 notes per beat), triplets(3 notes per beat), 16th notes(4 notes per beat) etc, these are called subdivisions of the beat What you also need to know is how to count when the notes exceed quarters, what goes on in between beats You know how to count quarters in 4/4 right? 1, 2, 3, 4 yeah? Let's say the next bar is in 8ths, then it's 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1.. etc, every number + 'and' being a note What about 16th notes then? 1 e and a 2 e and a 3 e and a 4 e and a 1.. etc Now adding 'e' and 'a' to signify notes No, you're not expected to count that when playing in moderate to high speeds. When you've drilled these subdivisions on the metronome enough it just comes naturally in playing Going back to the question, if your goal is to play quarter notes then yeah all the notes should land on a click but if you want to play more notes than one per beat upping the BPM isn't the answer, use subdivisions
Thank you a lot!!
You do not (always) need to set the metronome to every note at high speed. Try longer divisions.
It depends how many notes are in the arpeggio, ascending and descending. The average 5 string sweep that I would most commonly use (because it's easiest in my opinion) has 12 notes. This means you could could time the metronome in triplets as someone else mentioned: 1,2,3 - 4,5,6 - 7,8,9 - 10,11,12... with the beat of the metronome falling on the 1, 4, 7, and 10th notes of the sweep. The reason you see people doing the whole arppegio on one click is because the faster you go the more ridiculous it would be to have the click dividing the sweep. You probably won't necessarily get a smooth motion from practicing like that though. Also an aside, make sure when you practice these that you are not plucking individual strings, the pick should be gliding down and up the strings with almost the same mechanics as a guitar strum if it was slowed down so that each note was rung out independently and muted independently. The muting technique takes some trial and error, and practice to get down.
Thank you a lot, this makes a lot of sense!
Most common 3 and 5 string arpeggio can be played with triplets or sextuplet if you are going for an yngwie or Jason Becker type thing