"Before a student can be persuaded to use a metronome, he or she has to know why it is important. The most obvious ans…"

"Harold Bauer once said that the most impressive performance of "Lohengrin" he ever heard was the time the Boston Symp…"

"The metronome is one of the greatest technique builders available to the teacher or the pupil."

"Because its beat is perfectly steady, the metronome is an excellent practice tool for musicians. Practicing with a me…"

"Often, the metronome by itself may not be enough to learn complex rhythms. However, its importance for all types of p…"

"I’ve got a metronome app on my phone because I often have riffs in my head that I think will go together but when I p…"

"The objection, sometimes heard, that using a metronome tends to make a player mechanical, is not founded on facts. In…"

"Everyone knows that after a piece has been thoroughly tested and stabilized with the metronome, the necessary rhythmi…"

"How shall a discriminating sense of rhythm and a correct regard for time-keeping be cultivated? Certainly not by the …"

"Paderewski plays the rhapsodies like improvisations – inspirations of the moment. It is the negation of the mechanica…"