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<item><title>How to Practice with a Metronome (and Actually Get Faster)</title><link>https://pointune.com/en/guide/metronome-practice/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pointune.com/en/guide/metronome-practice/</guid><description>A simple metronome practice routine: find your starting tempo, speed up 2–5 BPM at a time, loop the hard bars, and test yourself without the click.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>How to Play Even 16th Notes: A Subdivision Practice Guide</title><link>https://pointune.com/en/guide/even-sixteenth-notes/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pointune.com/en/guide/even-sixteenth-notes/</guid><description>Why sixteenth notes rush or bunch up, and how to fix it: counting &quot;1 e &amp; a&quot;, practicing with a subdivision click, accent-shifting drills and recording yourself.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>3/4 vs 6/8 Time Signature: What&apos;s the Difference?</title><link>https://pointune.com/en/guide/3-4-vs-6-8/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pointune.com/en/guide/3-4-vs-6-8/</guid><description>3/4 and 6/8 both hold six eighth notes per bar, yet they feel completely different. Simple vs compound meter, how to count each, and how to hear the difference on a metronome.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>How to Count 7/8 and 5/8 Time (Odd Meters Made Simple)</title><link>https://pointune.com/en/guide/odd-meters-7-8-5-8/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pointune.com/en/guide/odd-meters-7-8-5-8/</guid><description>How to count odd time signatures like 7/8 and 5/8 by grouping eighth notes into 2s and 3s, how to set those accents on a metronome, and a step-by-step practice routine.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Tempo Markings and BPM: How Fast Is Allegro, Andante or Adagio?</title><link>https://pointune.com/en/guide/tempo-markings/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pointune.com/en/guide/tempo-markings/</guid><description>What Italian tempo markings like Largo, Adagio, Andante, Allegro and Presto mean in BPM, why charts disagree, and what accel., rit. and a tempo tell you.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Metronome Accent Patterns: Backbeat, Silent Beats and Inner Time</title><link>https://pointune.com/en/guide/beat-accents/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pointune.com/en/guide/beat-accents/</guid><description>Use per-beat metronome accents (strong, medium, weak, mute) to practice backbeat, waltz feel and silent-beat drills that build your inner sense of time, then share the pattern as a link.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Bluetooth Headphones and Metronome Lag: Why the Click Sounds Late</title><link>https://pointune.com/en/guide/bluetooth-latency/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pointune.com/en/guide/bluetooth-latency/</guid><description>Why a metronome sounds late through Bluetooth earbuds, how much delay to expect from different headphones and codecs, how to fix it with the light/sound sync setting, and when to switch to wired.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Why Do New Guitar Strings Keep Going Out of Tune?</title><link>https://pointune.com/en/guide/new-strings-go-out-of-tune/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pointune.com/en/guide/new-strings-go-out-of-tune/</guid><description>Why fresh guitar strings keep going flat, how to wind them so they don&apos;t slip, how to stretch new strings safely, and what to check when tuning problems don&apos;t go away.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>How to Tune a Guitar by Ear (5th Fret Method)</title><link>https://pointune.com/en/guide/tune-guitar-by-ear/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pointune.com/en/guide/tune-guitar-by-ear/</guid><description>Tune your guitar to itself with the 5th fret method, learn why the G-to-B step uses the 4th fret, listen for beats, try harmonics, and check your result with a tuner.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>A440 Explained: Why Is 440 Hz the Standard Tuning Pitch?</title><link>https://pointune.com/en/guide/a440-reference-pitch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pointune.com/en/guide/a440-reference-pitch/</guid><description>What &quot;A4 = 440 Hz&quot; on your tuner means, how 440 Hz became the standard, who tunes higher (like 442 Hz), and how to agree on a reference pitch before you play together.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>High G vs Low G Ukulele: Which Tuning Should You Use?</title><link>https://pointune.com/en/guide/ukulele-high-g-low-g/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pointune.com/en/guide/ukulele-high-g-low-g/</guid><description>The difference between high G (re-entrant) and low G ukulele tuning, how each one sounds and plays, what strings you need to switch, and how to tune either with a tuner.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Bass Won&apos;t Tune? How to Tune Low Strings Accurately</title><link>https://pointune.com/en/guide/bass-tuning-tips/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pointune.com/en/guide/bass-tuning-tips/</guid><description>Why a phone tuner struggles with bass, why it sometimes reads an octave high, where and how to pluck, how to tune with 12th-fret harmonics, and when a clip-on tuner is the better choice.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>How to Tune a Violin: Fine Tuners, Pegs and the Right Order</title><link>https://pointune.com/en/guide/violin-tuning-order/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pointune.com/en/guide/violin-tuning-order/</guid><description>How to tune a violin step by step, why you start with the A string, when to use fine tuners vs pegs, how to keep pegs from slipping, checking the bridge, tuning fifths with double stops, and avoiding broken strings.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>What Is a Cent in Music? How to Read Your Tuner</title><link>https://pointune.com/en/guide/what-is-a-cent/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://pointune.com/en/guide/what-is-a-cent/</guid><description>What the numbers on your tuner mean. 100 cents in a semitone, how cents relate to hertz, how small a difference people can hear, what the green zone means, and equal temperament vs just intonation in cents.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item>
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