What are the uses of the metronome?

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The metronome is your musical conscience. When you are first trying to learn a piece of music it is your Governor, keeping you at a slow enough tempo to navigate through the challenging parts of the piece and making sure those long boring held notes and rests get all the time they deserve. LAter on it becomes your coach. It pushes you just a little bit at a time until you can play that same piece up to tempo. Later on, it becomes your spotter, making sure you are not going too far afield with the tempo, and allowing you to check against it's steady, reassuring blip, blip blip...

Many musicians are now moving beyond metronomes and using electronic percussion machines and "one man bands" such as Band in a Box or Cakewalk. This gives you all of the advantages of the metronome with the added advantage of being able to hear yourself in an ensemble situation, or at least with a more interesting percussive background.

Metronomes can be irritating as well. Some individuals prefer to leave the blip noise off and just work with the light, and some just prefer to record their practice and check it against a metronome afterward! We had a situation when I was an Army Bandsman, where a percussionist had a metronome in his checked luggage and something jarred it while it was being loaded. The whole plane was searched and it held up our flight for almost four hours. From then on, we had to travel with "batteries out" if we wanted to bring a metronome along,

A metronome with multiple voices or an emphasis built in can also help you to get a "feel" for the tempo you are playing in. This is especially useful with polyrhythms, although the basic metronomes usually do not incorporate those features. I always take a metronome with me to honor ensembles and choirs because the one I have has a built in reference pitch
(A = 440) so I can check it when I tune instruments. When a student is doing something wrong, I am also likely to walk up behind them quietly and wait for a few seconds, then just turn the metronome on and see how long it takes them to notice!

It keeps time, regulating the rhythm of music.

The metronome is a time-keeper that helps in rehearsal. It can be a tool to ensure that the player does the piece at the desired tempo--not rushing or dragging in sections. I've found it useful for technical passages; you practice by playing the passage as fast as you can do it cleanly, and then set the metronome at that tempo--play through the passage at that tempo, then move the metronome to the next faster tempo and play it at that pace--and keep slowly increasing until you can play it up to the desired tempo.

There was one avant-garde piece, I forget the composer, that consisted of a mess of metronomes all set at different speeds left to click-click away onstage until the last one ran down.

a metronome keeps a steady pulse. it can be useful in rehearsing music to help coordinate parts and keep everyone together. Although Beethoven has been attributed to have said "a metronome is good only for the first measure" implying that the rigidness of a constant pulse is unmusical as it negates the possibility of rubato and other rhythmic inflections.

Metronome is use to keep time so you have a steady and fluent way of playing music in general.
It makes you more tight also, overall when playing or recording.

it helps you to keep time to the music