Guitar Noise Podcast #6 - 3/4 Timing
Hello to everyone and welcome to the latest Guitar Noise Podcast!
Is this really the sixth GN Podcast? Amazing how time flies, especially when it’s spent doing something this enjoyable! I hope you’re all having fun with these podcasts as well.
This time out, we begin looking at 3/4 timing. First, using the chord progression G - Em - C - Am, we will employ a “bass/strum” pattern and then add in a bit of a walking bass line to move things along. We’ll then tackle a “straight eighth note” approach to the bass strum, using alternate picking to create a more flowing strumming pattern. For this part of the podcast, we’ll be using a G to D chord progression and then switch to Am - G - D. And if this sounds at all familiar, just consider yourself a lucky man (or woman) to have good ears!
Finally, we’ll combine both this straight eighth note strum with a walking bass line to have an impressive sounding bit of music!
As in our previous Guitar Noise Podcasts, I’ll be walking you step by step through the lesson. So don’t think that you ain’t going nowhere, get your guitar, get down on that easy chair and come along and play! And, as always, please let us know what you think.
Peace
Chetwyn on April 7th, 2008
Hi David,
Once again, thanks so much for the podcast. Your podcasts (and the entire GN site) are great resources for beginners such as myself who have to sift through all the information out there and try to make sense of it all. These contributions are like a life preserver in an immense (and sometimes rough) ocean!
In podcast #5, you provided the tab/standard notation for the strumming pattern you introduced. Is there any way that you can do the same for subsequent podcasts, especially for strumming patterns that are as involved as that in podcast #6? I find it really helps having it visually, as well as listening to it.
Once again, thank you so very much!
David Hodge on April 7th, 2008
Thank you for your kind words concerning both Guitar Noise and our podcasts here at the Guitar Noise Blog. I’m glad that they’re being of help!
In the future, I am going to try to put together notation/tab guides for our podcasts. It hasn’t been all that easy up to this point because of my personal teaching schedule. Not to mention I’m figuring out all that needs to be done for these podcasts on the fly. I think I’ve mentioned how weird I find recording these. It’s like teaching to an empty classroom. And I guess that since it’s empty I don’t even see that no one’s writing things down!
But if you can put up with my growing pains in this venture, I’ll do my best to have more visual material for this audio teaching. Probably starting with Podcast #8 or #9.
Thank you again for the comment and for your support.
Peace
Tony on April 8th, 2008
Ditto Chetwin’s comments as to how useful these podcasts are. I find not having the tab is also very educational as it makes me listen closely to what you say and to what I hear on the guitar. You’re giving enough info to put together the tab ourselves and in fact I enter it into GuitarPro so I can play it at a speed I can manage and then up the tempo a few beats per minute as I progress.
David, your delivery is fine (comments about OK etc).
Thank you so much
Tony
Chetwyn on April 9th, 2008
As an addition to Tony’s comments, it’s quite great to have them in podcast format, because you can rewind to your heart’s desire to get it just right. I’m quite okay with putting up with your growing pains :); in fact, I’ve printed blank tab and staff paper, and am starting to write them down myself (great way to learn notation at no extra cost!).
Keith on April 10th, 2008
I have just spent the night working through and enjoying your latest podcast. Unfortunately all these lovely chord transitions and embelishments leave the songs that I already know sounding very plain indeed.
I am now going to have to work through them all and try to spice them up a bit. With my limited knowledge this is going to be a struggle, but onwards and upwards.
By the way, I like to listen to the complete podcast, then go back through it in sections. I note down some bits, but mostly I try to visualise what you are saying, get that grounded then wind on to the next bit. Great training for “listening” to someone else play then trying to work out how it is done.