and helps you avoid mental patterns where you produce syncopated rhythms by stretching your sense of time instead of playing with where the notes land.
Do you have something I could read that explains more about this? This sentence made me realize that I’m probably doing rhythm wrong in exactly this way.
It’s something I used to occasionally notice in myself, and have seen a few times in others’ playing. I think what’s going on is that you can approach subtle timing changes (single-note anticipation, playing ahead/behind the beat) by either thinking of time as changing or thinking of timing as changing. And, at least in the kinds of music I play, you really want the latter!
Do you have something I could read that explains more about this? This sentence made me realize that I’m probably doing rhythm wrong in exactly this way.
It’s something I used to occasionally notice in myself, and have seen a few times in others’ playing. I think what’s going on is that you can approach subtle timing changes (single-note anticipation, playing ahead/behind the beat) by either thinking of time as changing or thinking of timing as changing. And, at least in the kinds of music I play, you really want the latter!