If youʻre one of those who have crazy chops yet somehow it always sounds messy, this ones for you. This is not so much a trick, itʻs more of a necessity. Consider the metronome to help you get your playing cleaned up. Before you begin, pick a goal tempo i.e. the tempo you want to eventually reach. The way I work the metronome is to set it to a very slow speed. This tempo would need to be so slow that you would be allowed to hear all your mistakes. Speed is an interesting thing, it does impress the hell out of people, yet it also covers up your mistakes and might even make you think youʻre playing it well. So start out very slow on the metronome, play it through 10 times perfectly, then move the tempo up by 1 (or whatever the smallest increment on your metronome.) Keep doing this till you reach your desired tempo and youʻre good to go! Your playing should be much cleaner. Why does this work so well? By practicing this way you practice every part of the movement, therefore when you reach your goal tempo, every part of the movement is perfect. Incidentally, if can’t stand working with a metronome, a drum machine would work just as well.

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Here is the metronome that I use

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