metronome

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Practice Everything With It - especially Scales Playing your exercises and working on technique with a metronome is almost a given.

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  1. noun Music A device used to mark time by means of regularly recurring ticks or flashes at adjustable intervals.

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  • All right, so, I've got a metronome, and it's the world's smallest metronome, the -- well, I shouldn't advertise. —  Steven Strogatz on sync
  • His friend Chabot, for instance, was as steady as a metronome, his calls exactly what they should be, neither rash nor timid. —  Maigret Afraid—70—Georges Simenon
  • Barstow shot three times with the smooth action of a metronome, and the shafts flicked hissing through the gray gloaming to land with a hard, swift tock-tock-tock rhythm. —  Map.html
  • Many players acknowledge that a metronome is necessary for developing accuracy and control needed for high levels of playing. —  All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
  • One of the most common questions that I receive about using a metronome is "what tempo should I start with?" —  All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
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  1. Greek metron, measure; see mē-2 in Indo-European roots + Greek nomos, rule, division; see nem- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French métronome, from Greek μέτρον, a measure, + νόμος, law: see nome.
 

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/ˈmɛtrənoʊm/
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