The SECRET To Playing Guitar With Perfect RHYTHM

[@randydean23]

I made a singer songwriter record years ago where I tracked a scratch guitar to a click and then had the drummwr come in to play over the scratch. Doing it that way really helped to get a natural sounding feel. And we just proceeded from there to Bass and so on. Don't get me wrong I am not saying my time is perfect or great or anything but I have always been down to play to a click. But the thing that really helped me to start to get a better sense of time ultimately was to take up the drums as a hobby. Not as a serious instrument per se but as a fun outlet to augment my understanding of the way to fit guitar better rhythmically into the mix. And since I have no designs on being the next John Bohnum I could take it at my own leisure. Turned out to be a ton of fun while at the same time making me a better guitar player.

[@christopherheckman7957]

I think I read somewhere that that's how REM did it. Pink Floyd laid down the drums, then bass, then other instruments.

[@kashinewell6239]

This was really helpful thanks! I got a drumset recently and im trying to get my rhythm cleaned up for guitar and bass to put it all together.

[@aminahmed2220]

What a fantastic video have a wonderful day ❤😊

[@LydianMelody]

I learned that brilliant exercise with the drum track muting for increasingly longer gaps from a Victor Wooten video. When I taught guitar I used to give them a recording to practice with. It’s super fun! Feels more like a game than an exercise!

[@MrBriang1]

Like the way the student is really attentive to what is being explained to him.... he really wants to learn!?👍

[@MusicTheoryForGuitar]

I'm blessed with great students

[@Madchris8828]

I played drums before guitar. That certainly help

[@whitex4652]

Not necessarliy. Drummers don't have the groove because they are drummers.

[@kiryucovers]

I say drummers have more of an incentive to have groove.

[@christopherheckman7957]

It helped Frank Zappa. There are also some comedians and actors who played drums as well; Peter Sellers was a jazz drummer. It's all about ... .... timing!

[@MusicTheoryForGuitar]

Ba bump. Pssshh!

[@paolovolante]

Hello! Recently I "discovered" the tuning in perfect fourths and I'm experimenting with it (EADGCF). Setting aside open strings and thus saying goodbye to open strings and barre chords, I find it particularly interesting, both for scales and chords. Having consistent patterns for all scales and across the entire fretboard, immensely reduces the effort to achieve relative mastery of it. I'm a pianist, so I might be saying nonsense... ;) What do you think?

[@johnskerlec9663]

Great video man. I've always thought I was tight on rhythm but currently I'm revisiting a song I recorded over 20 years ago (with midi sequences) and find I'm a touch slow or fast when doing takes (and I do heaps until I'm satisfied) but that perfect performance seems to be impossible. Is that the sucky critical ear? Is real perfection necessary? Thanks for the post.

[@malcolmjohnston4624]

Keeping time in silence always seemed difficult to do.

[@TarkMcCoy]

Not covered: The electrodes attached to his head to shock him every time he fell out of tempo...

[@whitex4652]

Play with a drum machine. ALWAYS! Even when senseless noodling. ALWAYS! I tell you from my own experience. Let the drum machine run for hours and hours when you do anything else at home. Do that a lot. Get up in the morning and start the drum machine with another rhythm and tempo each day. Do that as much as even possible. let it run as much as possible. You do not believe what that does to your rhythm.

[@gtrdoc911]

Completely agree! Better yet, always practice with a looper with the click on (e.g. Boss RC-3). Then you hear the beat and the underlying chords. Therefore you can hear how your note choices blend (or not) with the chords as well as your timing. Also video tape yourself. Listen and watch it. Then you can really evaluate your playing and find ways to improve.

[@6drk6mrc6]

any advice on free digital drum machine for doing this exercise

[@nates2]

​@@6drk6mrc6I just type bpm and drums on KZbin, for the click you can use any daw and then record it and listen back if you are in time or not.