Timeline for How to know if you are tremolo picking in time?
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| Oct 13, 2021 at 21:45 | comment | added | Edward | @AndyBonner I agree that you certainly can track rhythms faster than 10 notes per second. The example given in the video is a bit of an extreme example (only 10ms difference) to demonstrate a point. What I'm really trying to get at is that the psychology of playing or hearing groupings of four is quite different from actually counting out four notes, one after the other. | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 15:01 | comment | added | Andy Bonner | ... So no, I have to respectfully argue that we have to get into much, much faster tempos before the listener loses the ability to "track" with common subdivisions of a beat like 2, 3, or 4. (Though maybe that was never what you meant to say, and you just mean that it gets too fast to linguistically count with numbers out loud.) | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 14:59 | comment | added | Andy Bonner | ... I've heard, similarly, that we can't recognize sets of more than, I think, 5 or 7 at a glance. This is perhaps why the patterns of dots on dominos or dice are arranged so that 6 is represented by two sets of three. If I printed 11 dots on one line and 13 dots on another, we would have to count them individually to tell how many they are. But if I grouped them into groups of 4, it would be easy to see that each had an incomplete set. I could fill a whole page with equally-spaced dots in a grid pattern, replace one with a blank space, and we could instantly pinpoint the omission. | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 14:56 | comment | added | Andy Bonner | I don't want to derail onto what could be a giant and argumentative red-herring, but I want to spell out why I'm suspicious of the video's claim that it's "to fast to 'hear'." They move on to demonstrating that we can't distinguish between a separation of two notes by either 40ms or 50ms; sure. But what the video (or this application of its point) is missing is the human capacity for pattern recognition. ... | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 11:39 | comment | added | Kaddath | This. Practicing slowly is the key. Often in fast lines all notes are not equal: for example depending on the tempo you'll play a slightly louder note each 4 or 8 notes to mark the beat (this really adds to a metal groove on bass). With the habit, you only focus on these strong notes, the other notes will follow naturally as long as you practiced right at slow tempo | |
| Oct 12, 2021 at 22:38 | history | answered | Edward | CC BY-SA 4.0 |