From the course: Banjo Lessons: 2 Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs

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Metronome

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- Probably the most important aspect of playing music is playing in good time, playing with really good rhythm. And though some people, like Earl Scruggs, just was born with a psychotically amazing sense of time, as, you know, are others. Most people like to work with a metronome, or they may not like to but they do work with metronome, to get their timing together. I really enjoy it because it feels like I'm working with something outside myself. Some people, I say metronome because it's easy to travel with, I just throw it in the box in my banjo case and I've got with me. If you have a laptop or if you travel, or just at home, I think there's something called metronome.com online, you can get that, there are drum machines, there are a lot of various time keepers that you can use. Right now I've got a metronome right here and, you know, I'd rather hear someone playing very simple music really in-time as opposed to someone who's learned a whole bunch of hotlicks and is not really…

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