Hi.
At home, when practicing, I always use a metronome. My philosophy is that
if I can't play something to somebody else's sense of time, I can't really
play it. Since I don't have someone around to jam with me 24/7, I use a
metronome.
However, I'm currently providing the rhythm section for a band of people
who don't believe in metronomes. At home, individually, they never
practice with them.
One of them claims that he's trying to develop a "natural, organic sense
of rhythm". I think he's just being a hippy.
Another band member jokingly says: "I don't like metronomes. I tend to
find they don't keep very good time with me guffaw guffaw." I think that's
pretty much an admission that he has an abysmal sense of time, and that he
forfeits any right to complain if my desperate attempts to keep the band
in time fail.
Another member of the band, who is doing a diploma in music at a technical
college, says that his lecturer says, that metronomes aren't really that
useful. That they create a mechanical sense of time, that takes away from
the musicality, or something like that. Sounds to me like stoned out, new
age horse crap.
Are these people tripping? Or am I just behind the times?
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