He also asked another great question. It is saying that his biggest problem was it was there to understand that beat, it is that when he was playing in a show at gigue in his cover, he was having trouble trying to keep in time with the other members of his band which was a great question, he wants to know what he will do to fix that flow. So here is what I said. You will take this metronome and let us take it and turn it on. Here you will hear a 100 beats from it. When he is playing in any gigue and he is trying to play the song at a certain table, like a 120 beats per minute, you will take the metronome and set it like 90 beats per minute, take the song and as the beats went by as this practice sessions you know maybe 10, 15, 20 minutes a day, you will practice that a 100 beats per minute the first day, next day like a 105, 110 and as a goal by the end of the week, or by the end of a couple of days or whatever, is that he would go up to a 120 beats per minute. But I said that what I do is that I would even take further than that. Because the thing is that, you went the hardest level to be easy eventually. So like one day you learn chords, the next day you learn half notes, the next day you learn sign reading or whatever and that the goal of getting good at something is the repetition and take it farther than you are supposed to take it. So that when you get to that point and when you have to play it seems easy. I would take that solo and then let us say that your goal of 120 beats per minute. I would take that that metronome then I would go for like 140 beats per minute and I will have that be my goal. So I will take it to a 140 which is right here and you will have this. So now your drummer is going to play that slow tempo as this.
Then now when it comes to play that gigue or to follow that down to 120 beats per minute and play with other people, a 120 seems like nothing because you are so used to play it at a fast – of tempo than your goal of tempo of 120 seems like nothing and now it is not because you are now much better, and that is it, that is a cool little trick and this wears for a lot of things not just that but it also wears for like when you are trying to learn drills on the guitar, instead of I am learning a drill and I set it at --like –and I set my tempo at like 110 beats per minute. And I keep trying like – I just try to get that tempo and I just cannot get it, the cool trick is I take it of to like a 120 or 130 beats per minute, alright, take that all the way up or 140 beats per minute and I fall back down to 120 or 110 whatever your goal was, and it going to seem that much easier and then before you know it, you fingers will – to fast when it comes down just like to say slow it is going to seem like nothing. It is a fantastic practice technique that a lot of professional musicians do and it is what I do and I live by.
What I did was that a minute ago, I explained half notes, whole notes and quarter notes. Now for those who are familiar what I have here is a piano staff. Now –look something like this. Your piano would actually have two spaces together. Now if I click on one of these, this is just one staff. That is a staff that is what it is called. Now if I click on two of these, it is neither one staff is referred to as a stave.
Now what is the difference, well there is no difference, just have the thing of that it is just a plural of one of to the other, so that you would say one mouse, two mice well the answer for this or the equivalent would be one staff two staves. So you would pick those and here you have throw plus base b and when you combine them with this line, this is called your measure line, your bar line and when you connect them like this, I am telling you that it is one person playing or that is one section playing.
So here you have your piano player and this will be the right hand and this will be the left hand. So I put this further and right here you will see these numbers 112 and that is telling you the duration of how long you hold these notes. Alright I said earlier in the show, in a piece
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