GitUsummaDis: I pause for a second to take my eyes off of the backswing to focus on the clicking area.
If you think about how real swings work, you don't follow your club head during the backswing, you stay focused on the ball. The same thing works here. Focus on the ding line and let the moving line enter your peripheral vision. Basically, keep your head down.
You can actually make your meter appear to stutter by trying to follow it from the top through the ding line. Unless your eyes move exactly the same speed and tempo as the moving line, the line will appear erratic.