i cant seem to keep tempo even with a metronome when i record its the oddest thing i will eventually loose it.....especially when im playing like constant 16th notes....any suggestions
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$MAX$
The standard answer. Practice. It will come. Just do it with the metronome at a speed that you can do it, then work your way up a little at a time.
I have the same problem. Playing with a drum machine ocassionally with 16th beats seems to have helped me some.
I am practicing hard at it, as Nils said, using the following few excercises:
1. 5 shapes for G major scale, linked across the fretboard, up an down in each shape.
2. Chromatic excercise: 1,2,3,4 across all strings, 5432 coming back up, and creeping up this way all the way to the fret 16.
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Play the drums :D
Seriously though, doing that really helped my timing. I suppose that would be a really extreme thing to do though.
Steve-0
Play the drums :D
Seriously though, doing that really helped my timing. I suppose that would be a really extreme thing to do though.
i have a sick kit cause my dad plays and i do play sometimes im not bad....i think i shud start to play along with songs to get my tempo practice up...good suggestion man
$MAX$
thanks man....it for sure is a mental thing...i know thats for sure
$MAX$
But it is possible to feel the groove with a metronome as well, professional's do it all the time when recording to click tracks :P
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Play the drums :D
Seriously though, doing that really helped my timing. I suppose that would be a really extreme thing to do though.
Actually, it helped me :)
After not playing drums for 20 years, I got back into it full force and started studying with a jazz drummer. I was enlightened to books by Gary Chester and Gary Chaffee...mind boggling stuff. I've contemplated some way to transfer some of the excerises to guitar. As a guitarist, I can't say I've spent much time really working on rhythmic skills, not to mention thinking in subdivisions of 5, 7, or 9.
Don't beat yourself up to much over this. I was listening to my Will The Circle Be Unbroken (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Friends) CD. imho some of the finest musicians ever are on this disk. There are some neat studio conversations on the CD. In one of them they discuss how they had picked up the tempo on the end of the last cut and had to make sure they watched that on the next take. So losing tempo happens to the best of us, practice is the only answer I'm afaid.
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