10 Rhythm Guitar Things Everyone Gets WRONG

#rhythm #guitar #music
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00:00 Intro
00:32 Syncing the right hand with the quarter note
01:29 Last Chance Course plug
01:58 Strategic chord choices
02:50 The chord/melody relation
03:31 Call and response
04:14 Avoid common gear mistakes
05:56 The Metronome
06:57 Rhythm as a band
07:47 Hendrix rhythm
08:30 Fingerstyle
09:46 Think like a bassist
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[liamcristello]

I see what I was doing wrong, I wasn’t holding the metronome in my mouth, thanks Sammy G

[mdlmusic]

I’ve gigged with tons of singer-guitarists who know the notes and the lyrics of songs, but never learned to leave space between the notes and lyrics. I remember one guy who did “Stand by Me.” Instead of singing “When the nite…..has come….and the land is dark….”, he sang it Drove me crazy.

[DannyGussman]

If you play the wrong note on time, you only got it half wrong
If you play the right note at the wrong time, you got the whole thing wrong

[Journey-of--Miles]

I began playing approximately 1980. The general thought was that if you couldn’t shred then you couldn’t play.
Instead of becoming disheartened, I studied Malcolm Young from AC/DC. While other guitar players were trying to learn the crazy train solo and eruption, I was learning to hammer out highway to hell and Back In Black. I do not have to make people Awestruc with technique, because I can give them shivers!
There is no music without rhythm and dynamics.

[philb]

One of the hardest things about learning rhythm guitar is the lack of resources out there. This is one of the very few videos I have seen about it. Virtually everything is geared towards soloing even though most guitarists will not even spend 10% of their time in a band doing that.

[bootlegpreacher]

Look at how much Guns n Roses changed without Izzy Stradlin. Yes, Slash is the Icon. They continued to make great music. But there isn't another Appetite for Destruction. Rhythm guitar is overlooked.

[BBassistChrist]

As a bass player, your last point felt like some welcome acknowledgement. I would say, however, that most of the time in a band circumstances, I would prefer a guitarist/pianist avoid doing bass, as that is my entire job, and if I have a different interpretation of the bass from the guitarist/pianist, then it will just get muddy. Unless those bass lines are communicated and rehearsed so that they sync up well, -in which case it can really open up and sound nice.

Also, when it is just an acoustic/piano playing, a good understanding of bass lines is always a pleasant thing to listen to, and I will be impressed when they do express that understanding. So I'm not saying it's wrong or I dislike guitarists who do it. Rather, like anything in music, the ability to do it is always respectable, but the knowledge of when not to do it is key.

[jimbrennan]

It's interesting to me that you're thinking about how hard you hit the strings and where you're hitting them etcetera because I do the opposite and just let my unconscious brain do that. I'm thinking about how it sounds and where it's going. For me, if I focus on anything other than what I'm hearing it's like batting in baseball or teeing off in golf. If you think about your stance it distracts your subconscious brain. As soon as I think about the rythym and what my right arm is doing I lose it. In hindsight, however, I spent a whole lot of time screwing around trying to learn what playing different areas on the strings does, as well as how you hold the pick, and other things. Once you've go those things in your brain you can let it just take over. Great lesson! Thanks!

[swovy]

Some of the best advice I've ever gotten, as a live player, is to use less gain than I think I need.

[timmckeag]

I'm so glad you showed off fingerstyle in this. I've done it almost exclusively and it's such a wonderful way of playing guitar. Maybe we will see some piedmont blues next video???

[therealkakitron]

Been playing bass and rhythm guitar professionally for about 30 years. What's worked for me to keep great sense of toning, is to divide the beat into 8ths in my head. I developed the feeling of an internal metronome clicking twice as fast as the beat, allowing me to phrase better and land on time.

[chrispysaid]

Damn, I thought I was gonna learn how to use the Boss DS-1 correctly. I got baited.

[PlayingInVestapol]

@2:36 - Funny you should bring that up. I played part time with a beach band and I had told the other guitarist. "You play the lower chord inversion and I play the upper. He said I wanna play the upper. Okay, I'll play the lower. AFTER THE FIRST SONG REHEARSAL..He wanted to play the lower. Finally he said let both of us play the same chord . The one thing he didn't realizes was, That I was a more advanced player than he was. So it didn't matter what chording position I played, it was gonna sound better than his..A month later they fired him and hired me for the summer.

[firstthessalonian]

As far as hendrix tunes go, I suggest learning bold as love, little wing, and castles made of sand. Those are my favorites songs to play, and helped my playing in so many ways.

[naattxxnaattxx]

For the hendrix-rhythm tip, I think its a good thing overall to incorporate in your music stuff from different artists.
It adds creativity

[robswystun]

Last I heard, my metronome took off to the west coast with some chick it met online. Haven't spoken in a while, but I guess I could look it up and reconnect.

[pattysmusic]

Wow there is so much packed into this video! A lot of stuff that I have been thinking about and considering recently. Thanks!

[nekot]

I dial my drive the other way around, I max it, then reduce the gain up to the point where it become too thin for what I want to play to wich point if go up a bit and set.
Usually, the gain is set way lower than what I would expect and there is more dynamic to play with this way.

[ethngrey]

Learned so much from you and your courses! Hoping to keep progressing through more lessons and getting better!

[rdalbum]

Re: performing with a metronome in each band member's ears: I think this is a good idea. I was in a vocal group consisting of people who arent really vocalists and we couldnt really do harmonies. If we had continued, I would have recorded multiple vocal parts implementing the harmonies, and given each band member *just their part* to listen to and practice. And them in the performance I would have fitted them with an earpiece so they could hear the notes they were supposed to sing.

One other realisation I came to is that less is sometimes more. I saw a duo perform on the weekend, where one guy was playing 12-string rhythm and singing lead, and the other person was playing basically the 1st and the 5th on a U-bass and wasnt a confident backing singer either. That second person was adding additional sound, but not contributing to the *music*.