Here is the main point I would like to make. So while this post is superficially about metronome practice, it’s really more about the inconsistent logic we often use to determine what the best teaching methods are for a particular situation. Since many of their comments really don’t address the points I was trying to make and also rely on some fallacious logic, I wanted to write a new post to try to discuss this further. Since then, Mike and a couple of others (including at least one student of Mike’s) have stopped by with comments to try to further debate the idea that metronome practice will always produce a soulless and stiff feeling pulse. Whether you are an auditory or a visual learner, the IM program has the feedback needed.Back in September I wrote a post here on Practicing with a Metronome in response to a blog post by Mike Longo entitled Should You Practice Jazz With A Metronome? While I agree with many of Mike’s points about the cons of metronome practice, my main criticism is his emphatic dismissal of any metronome use at all limits teachers and students by completely removing a potentially useful tool from their bag of tricks. We need the feedback to help us learn and form new neural pathways. In summary, the use of a regular metronome is definitely beneficial, however the part that helps us to really learn is missing. Although you won’t get any true feedback from the metronome, you will be helping your child to establish those newly formed pathways. Or do some teamwork with your child and pass a basket ball back and forth to the beat by tossing or bouncing it. I ask my families to set the tempo at 54 beats per minute and perform such activities as jumping jacks, claps, cross crawl, patty cakes or toe touches.
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Now when you are at home, working on activities to reinforce what your child is doing in IM, using a regular metronome, or even one of the free ones online, you can try doing exercises to a beat. When you work to keep your timing with in 15 milliseconds of the beat, you get a brain workout! I can remember when I completed my initial IM training, my brain just felt like mush!
They are amazed at how difficult it is to keep on the beat! It’s at that point that they realize just how hard their children are working. I love to have the parents of my patients come back to our IM room and try IM out themselves.
Although it might look right to you, measurements in milliseconds are tough to spot! So while the movement and the timing of the metronome is precise, it gives you no direct feedback to help you monitor your own timing. The traditional metronome was developed in the early 1800’s by Johann Maelzel using the precise movements of a pendulum to create the tempo or “beats” and is measured per minute. They have also been used in traditional therapy to help patients with their timing and rhythm, however there is one piece that is missing.
A standard metronome is typically used by musicians to help them practice the tempo of music. Some parents have asked me if they could just use a regular musical metronome and get the same results as Interactive Metronome at home or IM-Home.
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