dynamic click track

• Feb 21, 2021 - 19:31

Hello.

So, I don't ever play to a metronome, I consider tempo more of a dynamic. I am a guitar player, and I play for myself in my room, so I don't really need to worry about the tempo and tonal consistencies that a click would offer. HOwever, I understand the mechanics of playing to a metronome, I have done it enough to be able to have a pretty clear grasp of how the TONE of the instrument changes when you "use the jig".

(the analogy I will make is like a carpenter cutting boards. If you are cutting to a line with a hand saw, you are always focusing on the line,, but if you put the board into a jig you can simply cut based on the density of the wood, so the actual sound of the saw will be different with the same saw. )

HOwever,, I have just considered that a classical guitarist COULD practice to a dynamic click score, on that matches the piece exactly, note for note. Of course this would take a lot of work to produce if the objective were to simply put drum beats with tempo changes over every note,, but were the score to be able to have gradual speed changes based on selected bar ranges with a min and a max, it would be easy to make a score with a number of bars, and a handful of zones, and then the metronome would just play accordingly. (it would even be possible to have compound subdivisions specifically addressed, after all playing septuplets isn't usually a perfect science until very advanced)

I haven't tried to result in something like this yet, all i've done is conceptualize it and go looking to ask around if such a thing exists,,, does anyone have any comments about where this sort of thing is already in practice?

I'm actually a newbie to musescore, I've had it for a long time but never really use it,,, but my impression is that basically the tempo is managed by markers that don't really offer gradual changes very easily,,, there is some amount of potential with a few of the words but mostly you can't easily pick 10 measures and a start and end tempo.

I thought musescore would be a perfect platform for this kind of metronoming, and it would possibly bring the dynamics of tempo back into music, if you know what I mean. You could have a piece of sheet music, create a score with the same number of measures (or just import it, but there's no need to have the notes in the clicktrack, it would be cool to be able to have a background click to read my paper to), then just select the measure ranges, pick your desired tempo gradients, and it wouldn't take particularly long (if you had some practice most pieces could be clicked up in a few minutes) to set up a song specific click, where you could then loop measures to practice specific trouble spots or do anything else a computer makes easy.

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