What do you do to improve you rhythm guitar playing?
pratice with a metronome
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Develop a consistent strumming pattern based on that counting and timing.
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Wow Noteboat that's what I do all the time and I kind of thought it's something that I shouldn't have to do but I still do it sometimes escpecillay if it's a new rhythm pattern or an oddly syncopated one.
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Amen! Most of my "guitar face" pics are actually shots of me silently mouthing "one, two, three, four . . ."
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Wow Noteboat that's what I do all the time and I kind of thought it's something that I shouldn't have to do but I still do it sometimes escpecillay if it's a new rhythm pattern or an oddly syncopated one.
LOL! It's like my teacher told me all those years ago: "Son, if you lose track of that "One," all the angels in Heaven can't stop the train wreck. COUNT!"
Playing guitar and never playing for others is like studying medicine and never working in a clinic.
I feel better now
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I found a cool article yesterday on how to improve rhythm. http://sharemyguitar.com/blog/smg-guitar-lesson-tips-on-rhythm/ Moderator Edit: I tried to read this article and it wouldn't load.
I agree with most of it. Playing with other people and along to songs is my preferred way.
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This is so true lol...just Count
i never consciously count when i'm playing, and i've found that with some more complex, or syncopated, or extremely fast beats, trying to count and play is too much of a distraction, or pointless, and you really are better off feeling the beat.
nodding or swaying or dancing or tapping my foot all work better. you might be able to keep it mathematically "correct" by counting in your head, but that won't necessarily keep you in the groove. you really can't fake the feel of it, and that comes from your body, from dancing.
I think that depends entirely on the line you're playing, Jason. While it's true that some rhythmic patterns - for example, septuplets - are much easier to 'feel' or imitate by ear than to count, lots of beginners and some intermediate players use that as an excuse for not counting at all, with a predictable result: they're not consistent. If can't be consistent, you can't have good rhythm. It's that simple.
I encourage my students to tap their foot (or feet), and to sway to the music. That's because it's easier to keep time if you have a steady motion to measure against. But that's not a substitute for counting either - not everything will neatly line up with the up-down of the foot. If you can't play "one-e[/e]-and-a-two" and always get the "e" in the same place, you can't play a syncopated sixteenth note rhythm. The more interesting the rhythm, the more important counting becomes.
The most basic element of having good rhythm is the ability to break a beat into divisions or subdivisions and play it correctly, whether that's in simple time (eighths/sixteenths) or compound time (triplet rhythms). The fastest way to do that is to count.
One of my teachers used to say "if you can't say it, you can't play it". While that's not literally true... it's darn close.
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