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How a Metronome App Can Improve Your Practice Sessions

Metronome
Photo by Todd Ehlers

For artists, the metronome can be the most important practice tool to invest in. Besides helping you maintain your tempo and rhythm, when used effectively, a metronome can bring discipline and structure to your practice sessions. There are several techniques you can employ with a metronome to achieve this.

Setting goals

One popular way to structure your practice session with a metronome is by using it to set tempo goals for challenging passages. The metronome serves as a way to assess and track your progress over time. One effective variation of this technique is to start the particularly difficult passage at about half the tempo (or as slow as necessary to play comfortably) and gradually increase the tempo by one click or BPM (beats per minute) with each successful repetition. It may take several practice sessions to reach your desired tempo. It’s important to have the discipline to stop increasing the tempo if the passage becomes too difficult to execute. Return to it later and work it up again from a slower tempo, and you’ll find that you can surpass your original goal. Repeat this process until your desired tempo has been achieved.

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The Entire Home Theater Truth

California Casual Home Theater
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Starting your venture into the world of home theater can be a daunting task, especially when you’re bombarded with a plethora of information on how to install or operate your home theater system. It can be overwhelming for consumers of all experience levels and lead to frustration. To help alleviate this, we have compiled a list of common home theater misconceptions and have done our best to provide explanations that will not only help you understand them but also enhance your knowledge of home theaters more quickly.

Television Refresh Rate:

As you explore the prices and specifications of various TVs, you may wonder what each point signifies and what difference it makes. It’s easy to assume that a higher number automatically means better quality. However, when it comes to features like refresh rate, this is far from the truth. The refresh rate of a television indicates how frequently its image updates. In theory, a higher refresh rate might improve the image quality and smoothness, but many manufacturers simply overspecify their TVs. Even a high-definition Blu-ray player, at its maximum capability, typically operates at 60Hz, meaning that, for the most part, that extra refresh rate you pay for …

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