Practice metronome

A metronome built for jazz practice: click on beats 2 and 4, swing subdivisions, and random dropped bars to test your internal time.

How jazz players use a metronome

• Click on 2 and 4 is the default. It puts the click where the hi-hat is, and it forces you to supply beats 1 and 3. If you lose the click, you have turned the beat around: stop, and start again slower.
• Slow is the hard setting. At 50 bpm with the click on 2 and 4 (i.e. one click every 2.4 seconds) nothing hides your time. Every professional practises slowly.
• Dropped bars simulate a drummer who stops playing time. Keep the bar count going silently and come back in exactly on the next click.
• Tempo targets in this course: ballads 50–70, medium swing 110–160, up-tempo 200–300. Raise the tempo in steps of 2–4 bpm only once a passage is clean three times in a row.