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.
“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.
I recently got a reader question asking me “How do I improve rhythm skills on the guitar?” It’s a great question and one I get a lot so I decided to create a video on it. To find out 4 ways to improve your rhythm skills on the guitar check out the video HERE (and please like and comment). [Read more…]
In this short lesson, I go through some very powerful techniques that will help you become a master of rhythm.
Rhythm is the most important part of music. It’s not the only part but it is so fundamental everything.
Whenever you do anything on the guitar you will be playing with rhythm. Whether it’s strumming, picking, solo-ing, it doesn’t matter, it ALL contains rhythm.
Without good and solid rhythm music sounds rubbish. If the rhythm is great, then the music is often great.
Not all of the great guitarists out there know how to play loads of chords, scales and arpeggios but all of them have a great handle of rhythm.
Soak up this lesson and apply the ideas regularly and you too will develop a stronger sense of rhythm which will take your guitar playing to the next level.