For years I’ve been trying to keep up with a backing track. I have “Save The Last Dance For Me” in my GarageBand along with 100’s of other backing tracks and I can’t play along with any of the backing tracks.
80 bpm I can do with a metronome ….bam bam bambabam..Something like that. Patting my foot seems to work better e.g. patting my foot to the down beats of “Save The Last dance” seems to get me closer to the backing track down beats.
One more thing about using a metronome. My music reading is very cognitive, too cognitive. I have to play the notes/music without thinking about it. Dancing puts you into the music so I stomp my heal or pat my foot. I don’t dance but I can get my leg into the music on the down beats
There is a drum beat pattern to practice with in the Premium section under
“Theory” where the music reading lessons are….although you don’;t need to be able to play a drum beat every musician should be able to listen to one and follow along. Knowing of course where in the bar you are within the beat. Check it out, there is a video there explaining how to do it, I think it will help.
Thanks Johnny. I’ll check it out tomorrow.Today using the fatboy mpc and a #2 copper reed and a winslow big I was playing “Your Mama Don’t Dance”. Nice rocking tune
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