Here is a software METRONOM

Although a METRONOM is known to be a tool which counts the beats for the player to keep up with the rhythm when practicing, it has in fact, many other useful benefits. Other than counting beats and controlling the rhythm it can be used for many progressive purposes. For the violin family...

One of them is to use a metronom at the difficult passages in term of articulation, position shifting, or any difficulty regarding the bow usage. The passages should be practiced studying with a very slow tempo, keeping up with the metronom, and controlling the mechanics of the playing carefully. Then gardually increasing the tempo of the metronom, the difficult passage can be played at the requested tempo. The difficulty is to be patient, and slowly practicing with metronom with patiance, which I can not do perfectly either. Always tending to try it at a tempo, or metrnom free disturbs the progress.

Another one is for the basic bowing exercises and also scale studies. In bowing studies, I sometimes find myself, having a tendency, to increase the tempo especially in whole length bows, or more difficult bowing styles. Metronom keeps the tempo fixed and practicing always at the correct tempo, provides a good progress, in my opinion. In growing up speed and articulation in scale studies, using a metronome is very useful especially not to slow down or increase the tempo especially when faced with high position difficullties.

For me, I can not tell that I'm practicing these perfectly and achieve a thousand miles in technics, but I try my best and these are a couple of ideas about using the metronome efficiently, hope you got something new...!



For those musicians who don't have a metronom, or for a safety incase,in your mailbox, here is a software metronom that can run on a PC. Here is the very tiny metronom program: metronom.zip

The link which is taken from the Turkish website: Beethoven Klasik Muzik Sitesi