Rhythm is the driving force behind music. You don’t need to know a million chords and scales if you have a solid rhythmic foundation. Having good rhythm and timing makes everything you play sound like music – even if it’s just a 2 chord song!
I teach a lot of guitar. I have online students all over the world, and I take teaching very seriously. I think about it a lot. I try to figure out different ways to make people improve. In this lesson, we are going to go over a technique I like to show my students.
Learning something to the point of being able to play it to the track is super important. You don’t truly know a song until you can play it a long to the original recording! The problem is that songs often have tons of different parts, and they can take a while to learn. I have selected 4 “riff songs” to run. I call them riff songs because almost the entire song is just one riff.
I provide a metronome and guitar backing track for each riff in this lesson. I do three speeds: I loop the riff way slower than the song. Then I loop the riff a bit faster, but still not full speed. lastly, I loop the riff at full speed. At this point, it’s up to you to put on the original recording of the song, and jam along!
I can honestly say that you will not regret getting at least one of these riffs down with the original recording. It’s super fun, and is a necessary activity in your growth as a guitarist/musician.
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Improve Your Rhythm The Fun Way – Live Guitar Lesson
2:24 Live Lesson Introduction
7:29 Lesson Start
10:53 Graveyard Train – CCR
21:22 Mannish Boy – Muddy Waters
29:37 Chameleon – Herbie Hancock
40:31 Get Up (I feel like being a) Sex Machine
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Will & Mike B w/ Campfire Guitar Star
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