> You're a big baby.  Just learn to use the metronome.
> You are a musician, not guitarist in a punk band.

> Hi!
>
> Practicing using a metronome while playing is troubling me.
>
> The reason is, that it's just so easy to do:
> You just grab your metronome and play with it, and all your
> interpretation problems disappear - just like that. !
> ~~No need to think about playing expressively ~~
> **expressively -> accellerando (playing faster) e.g. to build up
> tension
>                           rallentando (slowing down) e.g. at the end
>                           tenuto (holding on a note longer) e.g. for
> suspense

> I'm sure just about everybody has read my short essay on why it is so
> difficult to sight read on the guitar.

> Lutemann wrote:

>> I'm sure just about everybody has read my short essay on why it is so
>> difficult to sight read on the guitar. Here are few more thoughts.
>> I've been playing  the alto sax for about a year now and can, of
>> course, play scales from five sharps to five flats, and these scales
>> essentially include all the notes in these keys on the standard range
>> of the instrument.

>
> I could never sight read despite learning music well enough write it,
> and then picked up an interest in English guittar, which is open-chord
> tuned and all the pieces are written in C. Since the open strings
> coincide with easily identified notes, I found that I could suddenly
> sight-read the typical beginner pieces of the era (very simple).
>
> I've extended that to sight-reading regular guitar in D, C and G with a
> slowly improving ability in A (relative minor keys too of course). My
> purpose is to take something like Kozeluch's piano arrangement of a
> Burns song, as I'm doing this week for Burns night, and sight-read the
> vocal line while taking in the chords and harmonies to form a basis for ...

> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000PTYUQG/

> Howdy again,
>
> � � OK, winter time mean inside time in NY, so I go to work again. �:-)
> After reflecting on this latest publication over the summer and fall of 2007
> and the work entailed, I got back to it refreshed and energized. �I'm not
> settling with this publication, where I would rather leave something out of
> the collection.
> � � All the base engravings are and have been completed for over 8 months
> (thus the reflection time), but then comes the harmonic texturing, guitar
> engineering, further editing, fingering, etc.
>
> � � I'm now working into Violin Partita I - BWV 1002. �Having finished the 2
> selections from BWV 1001, I created mp3 renderings of the Fugue and Presto,
> besides updating the jpeg snapshots. �Thought you all might like to take a
> look and listen.
>
> � � Note that the PDFs that are available on the page from BWV 1003 and 1004
> are old, dated back from the original "base" engravings. �They are not ...