These tips seem useful thanks. Let me ask this can i just leave my recorder at 120 bpm? 
Though I'm not recording in that speed always. Lets say I'm recording piece at Adagietto— rather slow (70–80 bpm).


I would use midi trigger device but that calls for more gear.Right now all I'm using is William Symphony digital piano, laptop and Synthogy Italian grand. With Ivory Cantatbile as the recorder maybe my 2488 neo.   


Thanks

Marcus... I have worked with a young lad who has CP and is wheelchair bound. For his 12th grade senior project, he asked me to mentor him and work with him on guitar. He wants to play some kind of bad and spends hours just training his hands and fingers to do simple chords.

As the project ran it's course, we discussed lots of things on guitars, and eventually got around to song writing and recording. He played a song for me that he had written. I helped him work out the parts and one Saturday, his father brought him to my studio and carried him up the steps so he could see the studio and sing his song. 

Here are the results with him singing>>>  http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=10530995

mike_mccue


Yes you can.

One thing I have done in the past is tap on a simple midi foot pedal trigger and actually record the midi beats.

Then you can use those beats to map the tempo.

You can also do this with a microphone down near your foot, and then use Audio Snap to map the tempo. You don't need a fancy microphone to do this.

best regards,
mike

what a really cool idea.
i never even thought of doing something like this.
great share.

@guitarhacker Song sounds really great! And for some one who's got server cp more than me. 
Mean mine is so mild nobody can tell unless I told you. Still challenge to work with like my wrist shake holding glass of water and off on my wrist cramp up writing notation playing piano. Are you still working with him?

Me either talk my older bro earlier told me he do't use metronome really just his head. And he plays drums. 
 

Very interesting topic....something I'd never heard of or imagined.  Thanks for bringing it up, Marcus, and thanks for the great responses, guys.  

Bob, I'd like to be able to watch that left foot of yours. :) 

Not currently... Caleb has graduated from high school and is now enrolled in a community college locally, taking some basics and learning how to manage in the world on his own... I believe he now even has a car to drive, and a girl friend....

He wants to pursue music in one form or another..... and was talking about being a country music writer and moving to Nashville in 2 years to complete his college there. 

Guitarhacker

Seriously.... if you want to test your ability to keep time.... put a song on with a good strong beat on a CD or something..... then tap along...get the sense of the time... NOW.... have a friend turn the volume to zero and keep tapping to the clock in your head. Sing along to the words.... but know where you are in the song. After a minute or so, your friend should turn the volume back up. Are you on the same beat and word with the song? Are you close...say with in a beat or less? Or...are you way off?   This will give you a pretty quick idea as to how good your sense of timing really is. 
 

This happened to me in the studio. I was playing straight 16th notes on a Wurly and there was a section of song where everyone drops out but me for about 8 bars. We had recorded it with a click track and I had already played a pass using a sampled Wurly. It was decided that the sampled Wurly wasn't grungy enough so we borrowed a real one from a friend and I was overdubbing the entire part--but by that time the engineer had muted the click track and had forgotten to unmute it for my overdub. I played through the part and was still dead-on when the band came back in. 
 
Usually my timing is not perfect, I tend to jump on the beat when I'm unfamiliar with a song ...
 

 

@Guitarhacker Wow! Well his song sound really great. Hopefully it work out for him. 

@Vanblah See so would metronome help should I practice both ways? Last night I listen to Chopin funereal march I was able to tap a beat but when got 2 his 2nd theme I got off. And I don't want have to depend on metronome keep time. 

@Janet did you write them songs on your page?

Yes, Marcus, most of them.  (Not the covers, obviously).  :)  

I like them. 

Talk my teacher he just wants me use metronome said only way for me keep perfect time. 
I still feel should be able tap to music without missing beat. Lot drum music easy 
but I listen more classical (which is what I write).