10 Rhythm Guitar Things Everyone Gets WRONG

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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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[@samuraiguitarist]

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[@liamcristello2591]

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

[@samuraiguitarist]

It makes all the difference 😂

[@MrHws5mp]

@@samuraiguitarist What flavour of metronome do you recommend?

[@ArtRebelsBloc]

New title for a guitar project "metronome mouth"

[@timmokoo5679]

I know right, I used to hold mine on the table because I had never given it any thought and of course it did nothing, it wasn't even touching me.

[@andrewsmith1820]

I tried, but the pendulum kept hitting me in the eye. It's not all bad. My wife likes my eyepatch.

[@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

[@WhoBlah21]

This very true for fast sequences and leads. Whenever I’m covering a fast solo I don’t focus on playing it perfect note for note, but if I’m on rhythm. It helped me out so many times

[@Incorrect._.Political]

no, you're playing jazz

[@Bubba-zu6yr]

If you hit a wrong note do it twice… puts the onus on listener.✌️

[@orlandoguitarist]

Just remember, the (somewhat) right note is never more than a half-step from the wrong one! A quick slide down or bend up can often hide a blatant pitch mistake.

[@NotSoMuchFrankly]

As my guitar teacher used to say, "If you make a mistake, play it again and call it jazz." He didn't say what type of mistake.

[@1mdlmusic]

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 “When-the-nite-has-come-and-the-land-is-dark”. Drove me crazy.

[@alextrainor2552]

Lol i do that too by accident. Its really hard doing both at the same time.

[@PlayingInVestapol]

Been there. Back a band one night. Their lead singer , instead of singing : I was Booooorn... By the River......In a little tent. his came: I-was-born-by-the-river. Then he did that with all the other verse lines too.

[@philb4462]

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.

[@Journey-of-1000-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.

[@5BBassist4Christ]

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.

[@enteecee.]

I think Sammy was using the low strings to connect to the >idea< of how bass players think, not what they're playing. What he actually said was for guitarists to think of linking notes and chords in the same way that bassists do, which could happen anywhere on the neck. The point, as I took it, is to get out of thinking about dancing around on one chord, then the next, then another, ad infinitum - as so many lead players do. But instead to concentrate on the otherwise invisible bridges that get you from one to the other, as bassists so often must because they're expected to hold things down. In this way even the most high-flying leads can also be holding the song pinned tightly to itself instead of roaming away. And no need to edge in on the bassists' job or sonic realm to do so.

[@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.

[@ethngrey]

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

[@chrispysaid]

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

[@enteecee.]

By a master.

[@flyballhdeg9775]

Stack it with a Blues Driver

[@pattysmusic524]

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

[@jimbrennan1181]

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!

[@samuraiguitarist]

This is a great point to bring up, to expand on the golf analogy, when you play golf you do as little thinking as possible, the same should be true when making music. However when you are on the driving range (or in the practice room) this is when you want to be thinking about this stuff. You practice and think about things like the right hand so that when you do turn your brain off it all happens naturally. Cheers!

[@jimbrennan1181]

@@samuraiguitarist Ahhh, yes, this is correct. I have spent many hours (months? years?) practicing, or what I think would be better called experimenting, so there you go.

[@crocholiday]

@@samuraiguitarist I was going to say this exact thing. The subconscious drives a lot of what I'm doing when I play live but off stage, I teach my subconscious what it needs to do. I'm constantly honing technique at home so that it all becomes automatic.

[@drwhave]

this only works for you because your subconscious already knows it and executes muscle memory. If you're just learning it, your subconscious will not help you at all without muscle memory being available, and you have to build the correct habit first

[@robswystun2766]

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.

[@itookallthenames]

It’s probably missing you

[@cactustactics]

Might be married with triplets by now

[@enteecee.]

It's always better to reach out than spend years wishing you had. In only gets harder as time goes by.

[@mikemph7779]

I love what you are doing! I hope you keep doing it !!

[@swovy5]

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

[@enteecee.]

I've been to so many live shows where I can tell a guitarist thinks he's killing it in his head because his tone - when played all by itself - is soooo daaang cronchy. But once the whole band is in the mix, what the audience is hearing is essentially static.

[@AndyPachecoMusic]

Great advice!!!! Love the pedal trick!

[@timmckeag105]

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???

[@MrPiperian]

You just inadvertently taught me the lead part to "I Fought The Law" with the C chords going up the neck.

[@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.

[@nedim_guitar]

Why was the thumbnail the Boss DS-1 with the caption "you're using this wrong"?

[@MorzakEV]

I’ve seen you mention this metronome trick before, and it’s genius! I was fortunate to be a position as a teen, playing with good drummers several times a week before I could really play guitar well, and it really made me a guitarist - this is a brilliant substitute.

[@user-by6eb6zo7g]

Came so hard to this. Thanks bro

[@johnsmith5669]

I’ll tell you this, as a guitar teacher every one of these things (especially the first) is something that you can always use to tell which students are going to be dedicated to the instrument.

[@danielktdoranie]

I, for one, NEVER get tired of you schilling your courses.

[@samuraiguitarist]

It's that or Raid Shadow Legends ads, gotta pay the bills somehow and at least with my courses it's something I created and believe in

[@CaptainCraigKWMRZ]

You still have way more subs than Trogley for less than half the content. Must be doing something right!

[@naattxxnaattxx7055]

Nooo! not raid shadow legends!!​@@samuraiguitarist

[@danielktdoranie]

@@samuraiguitarist I’d prefer Raid Shadow Legends at this point

[@danielktdoranie]

@@CaptainCraigKWMRZ and yet Trogly doesn’t ram ads down our throats constantly

[@nekot9274]

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.

[@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.

[@IDropzGuitar]

Hey man, love your work and been a fan for a long time, hopefully you’d be able to take the time to read this one, but I’m a 21 year old from a place in Queensland Australia, I’ve been battling an eye condition stemming from a skin disease I got when I was 8 years old, back in 2011, as of November last year I got the news that I am going blind, which left me homeless at one stage and it’s been a battle but at an attempt to get a name for myself I’ve started doing KZbin and TikTok myself teaching guitar as I’ve always had a passion for music and would love to grow big enough to go overseas and get my eyes treated by a world class specialist, I’m wondering if there’s anyway you’d be able to offer some advice and or any help in terms of how to grow and improve my content! Thank you and keep up the good work!

[@B_money-88]

THANKS SAMMY, You and JHS Post videos the day im questioning something 😂 You guys are sick🔥, also I want to thank you cuz I'm broke and you released that free course. That really helped out a lot 😅🔥🖤🎸

[@naattxxnaattxx7055]

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

[@jezmez68]

Not even halfway through and wow, cool insights.

[@turamvar]

"guitar George knows all the chords"...got me thinking "is that a Sultans?" And yeah, it was :D

[@KGrumbles2992]

been watching your videos for a while now, love your approach on everything and your Witty humour, peace bro. From another fellow Canadian in Ontario.

[@NickJardine]

~20yrs of bluesy/rock/lead type playing here…The biggest improvement to my rhythm playing has been learning Dave Matthews songs in the last year.

[@PunkMarioBros]

When I first joined my band, the keyboard player was the lead guitarist, so I was put on rhythm guitar which was the biggest character building thing for me as a guitarist because I had to work on rhythm guitar. Now that he’s moved to keyboard and I’m on lead guitar, I still try my best to sync with the new rhythm guitarist to make sure that I can keep my rhythm skills sharp

[@tobymearing8407]

excellent post - i'm in

[@firstthessalonian6889]

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.

[@jacobfife7273]

Something I love to do every now and then when practicing is to put the guitar through an octaver/pitch shifter and literally play the bass parts (or play an actual bass). It helps with timing and groove more, and also shows how much a bass guitar can accomplish within a band.

[@sebastianleroux5169]

All I can do rn Is rhythm and its what isa love

[@sirlost94]

It’s funny, everyone jumped on the “lead guitar” bandwagon. Then everyone realized, you plateau reaaaal quick without getting the rhythm down. Glad all the content and courses are catching up 😁

[@Vermonster23]

Personally, I keep my volume at nine unless I need that little bump. Run the amp at the edge of distortion and use my volume to get a clean sound. I will use a distortion pedal with the distortion pretty much turned off but the volume at noon. It really gives a little boost and shapes the distorted sound. It gives the effect of more drive. If I really want to crank it up, I have a boost pedal. For really nice overall tone, I run a 10 band EQ in the effect loop with my modular effects. The last thing in my effects loop is the Reverb.

[@masteroftea8273]

Not appreciating Jimi Hendrix enough would certainly go some way towards explaining why the parent's love always felt superficial.

[@burnindownthehouse]

The early 90's were a great time for good rhythm. Smashing Pumpkins were a good example. The rhythm was super busy. Empty spaces in songs became filled in with rhythm. It went from something that was in the background in the 80's and went to the forefront in the 90's. It's as if the rhythm guitar was playing what the same groove the drums were playing, which created a percussive wall of sound. If you listen to a lot of 80's hair bands the rhythm wasn't very good. The solos were top notch but a lot of times the rhythm was spotty and inconsistent. You would often hear only downstrokes. You would hear a lot of empty spaces in the songs. Guitarists would let a power chord ring out and then do nothing. In the early 90's guitarists began filling in the blanks.

[@HRBJHD]

You should always say "Bully for you!" when plugging the courses!

[@geoff5623]

Feel the rhythm! Feel the rhyme! Get on up, its guitar time!

[@samuraiguitarist]

That movie was one of five films that defined my childhood

[@Apollo23136]

@@samuraiguitaristYes! Cool runnings was awesome and also a top 5 movie of my childhood too.

[@therealshavenyak]

@@samuraiguitaristhearing someone refer to it as a movie from their childhood just makes me feel old 😂

[@cyfur7858]

Your metronome looks a lot like my Korg tuner!

[@The22Fret]

Hot (but interesting) take: It didnt start with Hendrix, it started with Hendrix perfecting Curtis Mayfields style. Hendrix played with him and - obviously - took Curtis‘ playing to a new level.

[@charliefossen2468]

Goat

[@rickc2102]

samuraigoatarist?

[@MashPotatoJohns]

Is there anyway I can purchase this course as a gift?

[@rickc2102]

Learn to dance. So much of musical performance is dance, and dance is rhythm incarnate.

[@eguitarplayer6689]

I've never tried it yet but - a soundbrenner could help (for rhythm).😐🎸

[@Yupppi]

I tried to do the Swedish Chainsaw with HM-2 but I can't fathom how they manage the distortion.

[@Brett-yq7pj]

I can't believe you expect me to learn something, I'm already perfect

[@ronvalley1973]

I love jimi hendrix even though he could not read or write music and of all bands the grateful dead has awesome interactions on playing and still watch them since 1972, woah.😂

[@sinsofthemartyr]

9:33 the guy from nugenix- "by the way ... she'll like the difference too" ;)

[@ericfellner2689]

I always had a hard time getting students to trust that they can sync their hand to the quarter note and not worry so much about being glued to a strumming pattern.

[@caleidonauta]

RIGHT HAND MOTION AND INVERSIONS, that's my rhythm guitarist motto.

[@rickc2102]

Inversions are much appreciated by the rest of your band. I've been bored with barre chords for thirty years.

[@thegrandpencil4374]

This video is hilarious to me because this has been ALL I THINK ABOUT when watching KZbin videos. I grew up wanting to play songs and riffs, so all I did basically was play rhythm guitar. And, of course, since that's all I did, I became really, really good at it. So it was weird to me to find out that most everyone sucks at it. You go on here, see this guy shredding like a maniac, but as soon as he starts doing chords and riffs, it sounds like a beginner. It's all choppy, stilted, no feel etc. So yeah, this video was definitely needed. lol

[@Kaz999998]

In my experience I haven't met any lead guitarist that was just as good - if not better - than me at rhythm guitar, and that's my bread a butter. But then again I play a lot of metal, and that genre requires at least a decent level of rhythm playing skill.

[@allstarlord9110]

As a rhythm guitarist I approve this message

[@c_rem6101]

Maturing as a guitarist is realizing how crucial rhythm guitar is

[@mindseyemusicreview]

I had no clue what an effects loop did and ive been playing since 2001

[@mspeedm5849]

reminds me of some shivering teeth to keep time after some overcooked strummmmboli

[@TheTimeProphet]

Can you tell me what metronome you are using. My metronome makes horrible bleeping noises, but yours sounded more like a drum.

[@vinedelux3987]

I struggle with keeping same tempo as metronome when It gets fast 120-140bpm

[@dinangalandi]

🔥🔥🔥

[@kylelittle4988]

That thumbnail is crazy

[@vantagestudios]

You LITERALLY have a different guitar EVERY time I see one of your vids! 🤯 How are you doing this?? What is the secret!?

[@underwoodvoice9077]

8:28: That's more what I would call hybrid picking, given that you're using both a pick and your fingers.

[@ashura9706]

I always think as a bass player. Only bought guitar because my friend got a bass first. Sadly this way of thinking makes my solos feel very “square”…

[@larrypower8659]

Hendrix took his rhythm playing from all the R&B gigs he did. Steve Cropper and Curtis Mayfield were his biggest rhythm guitar influences. He didn’t “invent” any of his rhythm style. Yes, he influenced all the players you mention. But sometimes you’re better off going to the roots. Cropper and Mayfield took their style from someone else, too.

[@mr.nobody68]

Bro, you really need to bring back vocals by SamuraiJenny

[@davidbachy5627]

The more metronomic the guitar and bass, the easier it is on the drummer to play like a metronome.

[@mikebauer6917]

First step, listening to that darn metronome...

[@iliketrains3495]

The thumbnail and title have changed more in an hour than AC/DC's sound has in their entire career

[@samuraiguitarist]

Lol, something shifted in the youtube algorithm recently and you gotta work it ASAP to get any eyes on your videos. I don't love this side of the youtube game, but you gotta play it

[@iliketrains3495]

@@samuraiguitarist fairs i know Justin Hawkins does it a lot as well. Also it was the good old DS-1 that got me intrigued

[@mattc8723]

Do you have a course to teach Bass players how to turn their rig down while the grown-ups are trying to tune?

[@dddux]

Every member of the band, in reality: the stage is MINE! everything to 11! fek sht up! Nobody else knows how to play! 😆

[@aliensweathands]

👽

[@DamageJackyl]

But... What if I play bass...

[@jacobjames5727]

So that is what people mean by feel the rhythm inside. Hold it in your mouth.

[@DesertNinjaX]

As in life, the rests are just as important as the notes.

[@RPSchonherr]

I'm more a Malcolm Young type of player.

[@klangobjekt]

Tapping your foot is a lot more important than a metronome. It engages your body to get the rhythm instead of just listening for clicks. Use a metronome, and tap your foot. The rhythm really takes hold if you tap your foot. The foot connects everything!

[@riffsnoleads]

Sorry, but the HM2 controls stay dimed and the JCM800 stays dirty and loud. Embrace the noise.

[@southernpanda33]

My right hand frets so clearly this isn’t meant for me.

[@AnonosaurusRex1]

Some great guitar players don't play chords. They approach it like a Viola, not a Piano. I used to know tons of chords and made up some strange ones. I'm done with that.

[@Typical.Anomaly]

I'm going to try using a different _strumming appendage._

[@benjaminprietop]

To me James Hetfield has always been the better guitarist in Metallica. That pretty much sums up my feeling on rhythm guitar

[@supernothing77]

If you want to be a good funk guitarist, learn to double the bassline

[@MikeNevill3]

So .. wanna write a funny reggae song with me

[@rynofor]

The title is a lie. Why do you all automatically assume everyone does said thing wrong. I instantly feel attacked.

[@jjorjj]

you get mad and then in that anger you go and watch the video. it's clickbait, welcome to the internet

[@ItayHazan-tc6it]

First

[@ryanvergara3603]

Wanna be a better rhythm guitarist? Get into funk music. :)

[@t0msie]

Clicky McClickBait

[@dragonmacww6945]

not wrong just diffrent guitar is art not a damn school subject /hj

[@CaptainCraigKWMRZ]

No. Because your PARENTS didn't work on their rhythm!

[@CaptainCraigKWMRZ]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@wintyrqueen]

So much emphasis on rhythm, yet no mention of Iommi… for shame!

[@curtisnewton895]

and yet again "you're doing it wrong" fucking title

[@Scuba4Steve]

If your playing sucks, you just haven’t spent enough money yet.

[@Jach28]

😂😂

[@mcfahk]

'Those are the things you aren't doing' Well, you're wrong: those are all things I've been doing for over forty years. The reason nobody wants to play with me is simply because I'm a grumpy bastard. Don't make assumptions: especially not in the titles of your vids. Other than that: you are right. All those things are very important.

[@Dino3014]

Any thumbnail of a video that tells me "You're doing this wrong" is an immediate block.

[@kaseysimons128]

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