The Importance of Tempo & Timing | Guitar Lesson with TAB

Tempo and timing should be your primary focus while performing and practicing. In addition to learning the notes, you should try to apply the notes over a backdrop of solid tempo and rhythm. It is the most effective way to communicate your musical ideas to the audience and to other musicians. I also included a few simple exercises over a G major scale and an example of how to keep time over an alternating bass fingerpicking pattern using Chet Atkin’s version of "Windy and Warm" as an example.
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[@SociologyInNepali]

People (me) usually rush into the solos and technical stuff instead shaping the foundation. Thanks for great lesson

[@zanderdillon7730]

instablaster.

[@RolandDeAragon]

OMG! I've been teaching music for almost 20 years and taught thousands of students and gigs in LA and I always the phrase "pocket groove" and no ever used that phrase until finally this video says it. Awesome! BTW: tempo is Italian for timing. They both mean the same thing.

[@topolatte]

5:48 aaawesome tip, thanks✌🏻

[@damo1140]

ty so much bro. big help

[@fararmedia2189]

Yes, it’s so important!! Thank you

[@PleaseNoMoreFarmhouseDecor]

great lesson thank you

[@arleenyuliana367]

Thank you I really need this

[@dougsmith8430]

Was playing this morning…. Did a few Songs and did OK… but watching this lesson/ listening to what you are saying about timing and pocket… this is EXACTLY what I am missing! My timing is on, then I speed up just a bit. Then I slow back down, and probably go to slow. Being honest with myself, you are covering what I am missing, TIMING AND POCKET!

[@hamadkhan975]

Learnt a lot from you... Thanks..

[@dougsmith8430]

‘Play in the pocket’… The importance of keeping time. The Fundamentals of good Rhythm, so overlooked, yet the Key to playing is all based off a timely connection withe the Drummer and Bass player. THANK YOU FOR THIS MUCH NEEDED REMINDER!

[@rhythmx1498]

Man this is true and great advice..

[@syaoranoni54326]

This is what im realising now! I can only play in time if i dedicate all of my conscious mind to LISTENING to the metronome and give all the PLAYING over to my unconscious mind. Ive practised a lot to a metronome but ive always been listening to *me* and going out of time. Its actually quite easy to train yourself to ignore the metronome and play out of time if you do this. Thanks for the lesson.

[@jordan2mill]

Like how does it correlate to my strumming and picking?

[@namanjain7067]

Good

[@diekampioen1358]

excellent

[@BrandonJohnsonGuitar]

Thanks! :)

[@sheenajohnson5241]

Is metronome a app? How to use it

[@cristwoodespiritu7554]

@ 9:40 starts here!

[@user-sm4jy3fg3u]

1/8?

[@danialexquande7813]

I ve been play guitar for a long time, and learnt about theory and all of that stuff till l consider my self as a intermediate player. But i never thought about the tempo, and i realised that l im still weak at tempo,i dont know how to describe this feeling n , lm feeling down

[@fararmedia2189]

You can do it bro. Just use a metronome or backing drumming track!

[@pcb8059]

I thought a rest note was when I play the rest of the notes? Serious though, my guitar playing never sounded musical for decades until I focused on rhythm and tempo, timing, metronome and the value of rest notes.

[@emperorceegle]

11:47

[@knowit555]

Attacked!!!

[@Forwardoperationbase]

To us newbies, what the heck is a "Lick"?

[@BrandonJohnsonGuitar]

A lick is a short series of notes that can be used to build solos or as an intro or outro. :)

[@PhillipNeal]

Sad others don't get it

[@BrandonJohnsonGuitar]

Right!? :D

[@jordan2mill]

I wish I could understand timing

[@jordan2mill]

How do you practice to a metronome if you don’t understand timing?

[@BrandonJohnsonGuitar]

Good question... you use the metronome as a reference so you know whether you are in time. You put it on and then play a tune as if you are playing with a drummer.

[@jordan2mill]

Or is that not how I should be looking at it?

[@ernt03]

Show us and play it loud

[@Ujeb08]

PLAY SOMETHING! talk talk talk

[@oyabunthelastsamurai2550]

kecekbanyoj

[@neila484]

Verry irritating music on the background