In this lesson, Grant shows you how to use different pulse patterns on a metronome to build your listening skills and improve your sense of timing and rhythm. Using the familiar chord progression for “Blue Ridge Cabin Home” in the key of A, Grant starts with the metronome clicking on the offbeats (2 and 4), then just on beat 4, then just on beat 2 every two bars, then just on beat 4 every 4 bars. Grant emphasizes that the primary objective of the exercises is to enhance a deeply internalized sense of where beat 1 is in any piece of music.
