Well...in baroque to romantic pieces..I really don't have many problems (mainly because the rhythm is much more straightforward)..It is mainly styles like jazz or latin etc. I recently played a Brahms intermezzo and a latin prelude (which was quite easy for me) to my teacher at school and she commented that my intermezzo was played extremely well, but my latin prelude lacked that 'jazzy' touch, and sounded too classical. In other words, note-wise etc. it is correct, just the mood isn't there. I'm wondering if there is a good way to improve this?
Playing the metronome by ticking it on the off-beats sounds difficult! I will have a go...but I don't understand exactly what you mean. When I set my metronome on 4/4 , I get one loud ring for the first beat then and then three ticks. How can you get it to just tick on the offbeats? Or do you mean playing off-beat from the metronome by a quaver??Thanks