The Best Tool To Visualize Rhythm
Have you ever heard someone say something along the lines of, “oh, people are just born with rhythm or without it – you either have it or you don’t”? It’s a common misconception that people with good rhythm or feel are somehow accessing something innate or otherwise unobtainable to others.
The truth is that rhythm is at its heart a set of rules just as much as it is a feeling. If you can visualize and understand the concepts of rhythm, you’ll be able to practice the fundamentals and develop the feel that may have seemed impossible before!
A great way to go about this is to imagine rhythm being laid out like a yardstick. From your base pulse you can split rhythms in half to get finer divisions, ending up with what’s commonly referred to as a grid. In this lesson you’ll be learning to isolate and practice these grid lines along with a metronome to give you a crazy good feel!
0:00 – Start
0:32 – Lesson Intro (get the tabs downloaded here!)
2:12 – Taking A Look At The Rhythmic Yardstick
4:08 – Examples Of Songs Fitting Into The Grid
7:06 – Beginner Drill: Playing The Counts
9:03 – Intermediate Drill: Playing the +’s
10:47 – Advanced Drill: Playing The e’s and a’s
14:01 – Closing Notes
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