Originally Posted By: Mac
Genre does not matter, I teach NOT accenting any of the beats like the ONE every time, simply because that develops a bad habit where the student will start to automatically give more time to the accented beat without even realizing that is happening.

My method of teaching is based on the empirical real life situation of working with people who have developed certain bad habits from being taught to do things in certain ways that may not be the best way to start learning in the long run.

Because it takes 10 times longer to correct a Bad Habit than it does to learn how to do something in a better way in the first place.

Be careful with emphasizing the first beat like that.

Unless you want all of your triple time signatures to sound like old beergarten renditions of Strauss, that is...

(And Duple meters, 2/4. 4/4, etc. also get hammered by that same bad habit. Works maybe when encountering the simple songs, playing by yourself, problems ensue when playing ensemble with live musicians who know how to keep even meter, though.)




--Mac


The fact that Wooten almost entirely avoids the metronome beats whether the metronome is doing 1/8 notes at 80 or 1/4 notes at 80 is not lost on me, though getting to the point of just being able to groove that had to take years. Not much to do with 3/4 or 6/8 time sig detection, but how he hears what goes 'in-between' for both of those examples in the first few minutes is really interesting.

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