Sleeping with metronom

[Exident]

Hey,

the last time i was alawys going to sleep with my metronom. I had always a special tempo on it, 140bpm next day 160bpm etc.

Over the night the brain is able to learn. And my one saved the different tempi i was listening too.

Now i can count without a metronom exactly 140bpm, 160bpm et cetera (are you using the word "et cetera" in America/Uk?).

With the Tapfunction i can see this.
:) Its funny and i think if anyone here has timingproblems he should try this out.
THis is giving you a feel for different tempi for a long time.

Lg
Tobi

[gusty]

really? thats pretty interesting. might try it for the next few nights.

[PsYcHoTiC.DrUmMeR]

lol so you sleep with the metronome going?

[gusty]

lol so you sleep with the metronome going?

i think thats the idea. although im not sure if it'll actually work...

[Exident]

Hey,

you sleep while it is going, right.

Lg
Tobi
Ps:. Thats something you can do 3-4 times but not more often ^^ We need our sleep :)
But in holidays where you can spend a lot of time in you bed, it´s ok.

[fat in the middle]

i did that once, but it was my drum machine set to a clave', i remember waking up in the night feeling quite annoyed,, perhaps it works though?, i then turned it down in volume the next time i did it.

[nate]

i take it your single.

[khanedeliac]

i take it your single.

Heheheh...good observation skills from cheeky chappies in London :)

[TopCat]

i take it your single.

10 points for the zinger.

[Exident]

Hey,
what a shame!
It´s just funny to try this out.
Each to his own.

:)
Lg
Tobi

[Drummer Karl]

what an interessting idea. I mean, I have to try this!
Good one Tobi, I guess that this will improve your tempo feeling pretty much, that is cool!

Karl

[Exident]

Hey Karl,

that's cool. Tell me if you liked it!
I guess that this will improve my tempofeeling.
But if you put the metro much to high it isn't good for your pulse and your sleep...sooo
try it out 1-2 times per week but not more and not with 280bpm :D .

Lg
Tobi

[Deathmetalconga]

Sounds pretty weird to me. But it just might work!

[Drum-Head]

I have never slept with a click on... But I have heard a metronome in my sleep a few times. Now that is disturbing!

[Drummer Karl]

"I have never slept with a metronome before."

HA, now I kow what`s that thread about! ;-)
I guess the kids will have killer timing.

I apologize...just kidding.

Again it is interessting, I`ll see how it affects my timing.

Karl

[Salicete]

I would be unable to sleep, irritable the next day, and too sleepy to keep time.

I think I'll just run a click to my in-ears when I feel the need for help keeping time.

Good luck with that sleep-deprivation....ahem..... I mean sleep-learning thing though!

[Exident]

Hey,

like a already said, thats nothing i would do for 1 month or anything like this.
Thats something cou can try out one times.

And i will do it again if i want to. But thats not my everyday-sleep-ritual.

If i would do it everyday in two months I would find myself back in menthal house ^^

Lg
Tobi

[jangus]

Seems like a weird idea to me but I may give it a try once or twice. But only on the weekends when I can make up for the lost sleep.

By the way, in America we usually abbreviate et cetera to etc.. So it's 140bpm, 160bpm, etc.

[X22]

The thought of Kate Beckinsale sleeping with a battery-powered pulsing object is rather exciting to me for some reason.

[murphinelli]

My old roomate slept with Pink Floyd's The Wall playing every night. He is now in the mental ward.

I don't recommend sleeping with any clicks or metronomes. Not good for your sleep and I'm doubtful about helping your tempo, timing, or feeling. There are better things to sleep with to help with them...

[fourstringdrums]

Bad idea. You could get Captain Hook Syndrome after a while and go insane the next time you watch the Crocodile Hunter.

I don't see how it would help. I would think it would take weeks for you to use the same tempo night after night before it becomes ingrained. You could do it quicker by starting to play with a metronome, shutting it off and trying to keep the tempo. Then turn it back on and see how close you are to the tempo.

[SLEEPY BRiGHT EYEZ]

I guess the kids will have killer timing.

Ahahahah...

I used to listen to strange ambient loops I created while sleeping. Now I have to have perfect silence in order to sleep.

[Fur drummer]

Man that would drive me nuts.

[Wavelength]

Man that would drive me nuts.

Sleeping with a metronome will surely drive your nuts!

[Blondie]

I got a BeatBug from luglock.com . As this little gem tells you what tempo you are playing at you can sleep with something a bit warmer than a metronome.

[tamadrummer132]

If i would do it everyday in two months I would find myself back in menthal house ^^



BACK in the mental house...?

[Exident]

Hey Everyone,

i really have to repeat that I did this 3-4 times in holidays.
I would never do this while school!
I know that this is not good for my health but how many of you are drinking ore smoking?
Thats the same and i´m not drinking or smoking :D
So if i will do this 3-4 times in holidays i think it is ok because its much fun to me :D

I´m not a native speaker! I´ve never been in a mental house..i wrote it wrong.
BACK was to much ^^

Lg
Tobi

[-Ryco]

I used to sleep with the metronome going way back in college. I had a single room so didn't have to worry about buggin' a roomie or anything.

If yer gonna have someone sleep over I recommend a nice slow speed!

[Class A Drummer]

Batteries would probably die out for me. But i think i would be driven nuts by the constant beeping and not able to sleep. Im kind of an insomniac so I would be up for a while anyways. (some of you on the west coast might have seen me on the forum at about 1 am, which for me is 4 am.).

[jollymosher]

Very cool! but wait is tobi a dude or chick.. if she really is the hot chick on her avatar, there is no possible way shes single.

[Exident]

Hey,

search for Kate Beckinsale und you will find the wonderfull woman in my avatar.

I´m looking a little bit another way.
Like this:

Lg
Tobi

[junglelord]

I have done the same thing with daytime practice

[KzSgDrummer]

A few years back I had a job which kept me alone for a half hour once or twice a day, so I'd bring my little Boss DB-12 along and set it to the tempo of a song I had in my head at the time, just letting the song loop over and over in my mind and getting that groove ingrained in me.

Of course there's no scientific evidence that it's helped, but I think it did.. a lot.

[Pocketman]

I can just imagine asking my wife to have that thing clicking all night...

[SketcHyRollin564]

Theres no way i could fall asleep to a metronome. Mabey if i set it to the tempo of a song i had playing int he background, but id have a playlist of songs, since it takes me about 20 minutes to fall asleep, and the tempos wouldnt be the same.


And this is a little late, but yes, in america we commonly use the word "et cetera", but when we type it or write it, we almost ALWAYS abreviate it by typing "etc."

Theres little kids that know what "etc." means, but they didnt know the real word was et cetera, so they go around physicaly saying "this, and that, E.T.C."

[JCM]

I've also considered that but hmm. Normally, I go to sleep listening to the songs my church band are trying to learn so I know EVERY single part of it. I mean I know exactly when the tempo or style changes which I think its good because you become really familiar with the material. But with a metronome, I've heard of subliminal learning but who wants to be hearing tick tick tick tick all the time!?!

[Drum-Head]

Last night I had to borrow an alarm clock to wake up on time this morning (mine is broken.) The ticking drove me crazy and I have barely slept at all. This would be the same as sleeping with a click at 60 bpm. A nightmare!

[da cheese walks]

Hey,

search for Kate Beckinsale und you will find the wonderfull woman in my avatar.

I´m looking a little bit another way.
Like this:

Lg
Tobi

HAHAHAHA...man what a great picture!!!!brilliant!!

I did think that the first time i was looking at it....."Hmmmm... Kate Beckinsale plays drums???ooooooohh.....!!"

[badlydubbedsean]

I go to sleep with a clock that's loud enough to be a metronome. It doesn't work.

HOWEVER I used to go to sleep listening to Harry Potter tapes and I could almost recite the whole series. 'Tick, tick, tick' just isn't as interesting in comparison.

[Fur drummer]

Sleeping with a metronome will surely drive your nuts!

LOL well that is one way to look at it.

[drumminbro23]

So dose this acctualy work ?

[GRUNTERSDAD]

My sister gave me some CD's that play this ultra-mellow slow music, to help you sleep, and I stayed awake all night waiting to hear the next song. Felt terrible the whole next day at work.

[Tutin]

I have clinical insomnia, I don't think I can afford to do this haha!

I have actually though about it for a while, but I might go for it and see how it goes.

My guitarist actually woke me up one time; he was annoyed, because my left foot was keeping time in my sleep! Heheh!

[da cheese walks]

yeah i have nsomnia too....its a bitch....have had it for 10 years or so now...Chronic....get about 2 hours on average now.....

[Tutin]

Ooft, unlucky.

I just got it in december, I got really depressed as a result but that seems to have passed.

[tamadrummer132]

im not really sure.. but as i think about it id say that it would either give you an annoying clicking headache all day long, or you will be a human metranome and enjoy it.

Personally, i dont see myself learning anything from it, cuz ill probably knock the headphones outa wherever they are in.


p.s. 500 posts :D

[Tubs player]

i tried this
it worked. it's a little hard to sleep just put something over your metronome to muffle the sound a little. Every day bring the speed up a little

[jangus]

Diggin' up a fairly old thread here but I found this today.

Here's something to consider:

"Exposure to noise at night can suppress immune function even if the sleeper doesn’t wake. Unfamiliar noise, and noise during the first and last two hours of sleep, has the greatest disruptive effect on the sleep cycle."

Here's the source: http://abc.net.au/science/sleep/facts.htm
Looks credible enough to me.

Therefore, sleeping with a metronome might not be the best idea.

[Vinnysimmo]

Id like to try it but my metronome only has 2 volume settings, silent or with very loud bleeping.

[Tutin]

Hmm, I assumed that the sound would probably affect sleep. It seemed common sense.

Well I'm rid of insomnia now, so it's all good!

[Exident]

Hey,

long time ago that i watched this thread.
Like i said you are right. Its hard to sleep with metronome and the next time your are getting cheesy...but all of that doesn´t change that it is working ^^

Every single human can fly....after jumpng from a big tower...but after you are XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx
Sooooo...many things are working but they are not good for us.

Also little late:
Its cool to see how Americans are using "Latein" in here languge. Here in germany we are using a lot of latin stuff and i´m also learning latin in school.
That language is amazing and its really fun to transalte speeches of Ovid, Ceasar, Sallust etc. Its really interesting and a lot of fun...but it is hard.

In dubio pro reo ..... i guess everybody knows these 4 words that have a really big sence.

:)

[Flamacue]

I used to listen to music every night...all night most of the time unless I woke up and it was bothering me...the receiver also has a sleep timer if I only wanted to listen until I dozed off.

Once I got married I had to give that up...[cry] I get to do it once in awhile, but I have to set the timer, and I can't crank it. I forgot to mention I actually used to listen to it at normal volumes...none of this elevator volume crap...and I used to sleep like a rock…wake up with the alarm, sound asleep the rest of the time in-between. Now, I’m actually finding myself very restless…sometimes up 2 or 3 hours before the alarm and can’t get back to sleep.

I gotta smooth talk her into going with this for a few weeks, see if she can get used to it.

[Thin Spirits]

Oh wow!!!

I love this idea so much. I will be doing it tonight.
I'm thinking I will put it on 120 BPM.

Thank you Exident, this has made me extremely happy.

[ablethevoice]

I'm still pretty new to the forum so forgive me for dragging up a thread as old as this one is . Thanks, "guest" for bringing it to my attention.

Anyway, long before I started playing drums, one of my hobbies was listening to shortwave radio. One of the very first stations I picked up (I was about 6 I guess) was a station called WWV (http://tf.nist.gov/stations/wwv.html). For those that don't know it, WWV is a station run by the US Government and it broadcasts one thing all day every day: the time. That sounds boring and to some degree, it is, but at the same "time" (no pun intended) it was and is a very useful station because the clock that WWV gets its time base from is the most accurate clock in the world. I used to keep all the clocks in the house- as well as my watch- to within 1 second or less of the time as announced by WWV.

Now to the topic of falling asleep to something akin to a metronome:
I used to plug in my headphones and turn WWV on just loud enough to faintly hear the second ticks (not wearing them, just sitting near the bed) as I slept. I did this for years (yeah, I know... I'm weird). The upshot of all this is that to this day, I can look at a clock once in the morning and "feel" the time to within 5 or 10 minutes all day without wearing a watch. I used to be called the walking clock because someone would come up to us and ask if anyone had the time and I'd just say "it's about 25 after" without looking at anything. They'd walk off with a skeptical look on their face and ask someone else who had a watch and I'd hear the watch owner say, "It's 9:26..." After a short while, no one doubted my ability to tell time without a watch. I guess I "programmed" myself to feel the flow of seconds, minutes and hours with all those years of listening to WWV in my sleep.

And no, it didn't affect my playing. I don't play exclusively at 60 BPM...

[millerdakiller]

I would never be able to sleep with that constant ticking

[capnkate68]

ok i am not i drummer or anything i play lead guitarist and i was looking to buy a metronome because my friend borrowed and then lost it. this is where i saw a sight to said sleeping with a metronome around 60 bpm helps you sleep so i searched Google and found this forum and so i wanted to give it a try so when my metronome came in the mail i set it to 144 the beat of a lot of my favorite songs like Bark at the Moon by Ozzy Osbourne. here what i did i put a pillow over my metronome so it was quit and i always go to sleep with my tv on so i turned it on and put a sleep timer on i when to sleep fast and easy and i got a full sleep with it on, and i can tell a differences but its no big deal i mean am a guitarist i don't make a beat i just follow it.

[Vinnysimmo]

ok i am not i drummer or anything i play lead guitarist and i was looking to buy a metronome because my friend borrowed and then lost it. this is where i saw a sight to said sleeping with a metronome around 60 bpm helps you sleep so i searched Google and found this forum and so i wanted to give it a try so when my metronome came in the mail i set it to 144 the beat of a lot of my favorite songs like Bark at the Moon by Ozzy Osbourne. here what i did i put a pillow over my metronome so it was quit and i always go to sleep with my tv on so i turned it on and put a sleep timer on i when to sleep fast and easy and i got a full sleep with it on, and i can tell a differences but its no big deal i mean am a guitarist i don't make a beat i just follow it.

I dont understand what you are saying. You might want to rephrase a little.

[Skeemer118]

I would dream of time bombs if I slept with a metronome.....

[votard]

I used(well i still do) sleep with my ipod sometimes. Most of the time now, I just listen to any random songs, but when I first started listening to music when i slept, I'd listen to the allman bros., usually in memory of elizabeth reed. I don't know if affected my sleeping, but it made me feel 'zen'.