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I cannot play on time. Not in terms of missing beats, or losing the click in the middle of a song, but in that my timing is almost always off. I compared my played notes to the click in the DAW, and I'm usually rushing, sometimes by 30-40ms. I remember Adam Neely said once that 10ms is barely acceptable, so yeah.

I tried dividing the distance between clicks in my head, doubling the metronome tempo, moving with the beat, consciously conpensating for the rush, nothing helped. Therefore, my questions - how's your timing doing? What can I do to improve mine?

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[โ€“] ljoe@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Might be worth checking the latency and error compensation settings in your DAW. Try a loop pedal or get a friend to critic your playing. Shouldn't blame our tools but in this case could be your playing fine but the DAW is out?

[โ€“] Motorheadbanger@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I thought about it, but the inconsistency on display betrays sloppy timing anyway