Drumbeats are fun.
When learning guitar, I used to hate practising to a click/metronome.
3 Random Thoughts This Monday (A New 12-Bar Blues Course, Learning to Swim, and Humans vs. Drum Machines)
Welcome to a new Monday post with 3 random thoughts on all things guitar, music, and life, including a new 12-bar blues course, humans vs drum machines, and more. Here we go…
10-Second Tip – A Fun Way to Improve Your Rhythm
Here is another Friday 10-second tip for you to enjoy…
10-Second Tip – Creative Ways to Test Yourself
Here is another of my weekly 10-second tips. Enjoy!
3 Random Thoughts This Monday (Harp Harmonics, Varying Rhythms, and a Silly Analogy)
Welcome to a new Monday post with 3 random thoughts on all things guitar, music, and life, including a silly analogy, harp harmonics, and more.
10 Simple and Fun Ways to Improve Your Sense of Rhythm on Guitar
There are three aspects of music. These are harmony, melody and rhythm. Harmony covers things such as chords and when more than two notes are being played at the same time. Melody covers riffs, lead ideas, and anything that you can hum. Rhythm is pretty self-explanatory.
The Complete Guide To Improving Your Rhythm With Sub-Divisions
“Drummers view of the show” by Matt Deavenport, licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0.
In this popular YouTube video I created a few years ago, I talked about how to play a variety of sub-divisions and how sub-divisions are the foundation and building blocks of ALL rhythm.
In this post, we will take things a step further and get you learning all of the most important sub-divisions and I’ll show you how to practice them to take your rhythm skills to the next level.
6 Easy Ways To Adapt Your Favourite Guitar Strumming Patterns
One of the most boring things a guitarist can do when playing a strumming song is to strum the song in the exact same way using the exact same strum pattern throughout.
In this post, you’ll learn how simple it is to methodically adapt the strum pattern and how it will give your strumming songs a massive new lease of life.
How to add excitement and interest to any song by combining multiple strumming patterns
I’ve said it many times before, but I will say it again. I’m not a huge fan of when guitarists play a song and use just one strum pattern throughout the whole song.
It’s okay when starting out or learning the song but as soon as you are comfortable, start adding more strum patterns, variations and strum fills for a much more powerful effect. Today, I’ll show you how to seamlessly combine different strum patterns to create a piece of music that is exciting and vibrant.
Why you should play, practice and jam with a drum beat every day
Batería by Antonio, licensed under (CC BY-SA 2.0)
One of the most fun things a guitarist can do is to stick on a drum beat, turn it up loud and jam the hell out of it.
This goes for acoustic or electric players and rockers or fingerpicking folk guitarists. It doesn’t matter what your style is, you need to be doing this on a regular basis.