Know what a metronome is? It’s a nasty little torture device for musicians whose sole purpose, besides helping you keep exact time, is to make a hole in your skull and leave a burning scar in your subconsciousness, rendering your brain utterly useless. As this guy put it, “when you spend 48 hours in one weekend in the studio and you hear this click, you have dreams about it in the end.’ Well, okay, we don’t hate metronomes that much, they’re…
I don’t know if you have seen the new Steve Jobs movie, but in it the too-sexy-to-be-believable Michael Fassbender, tells a story of how he met a famous conductor which he asked what was the point of his vocation when a metronome can do what he does. This conversation was the build up to the quote we are bound to see on inspirational posters in the future: ‘Musicians play instruments. I play the orchestra’ But let us get back to the…