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Guitar Rhythm Primer
This lesson will serve as a good starting point for playing rhythm guitar. Following The Beat When listening to music, you might find yourself tapping your foot along with the beat. The beat keeps track of the songs time, by creating a regular pulsation against which the length can be measured. The beat may be fast…
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Quarter Note Strumming
In this lesson, you’ll discover what a quarter note is and how to strum it. The Exercise A quarter note is a note that represents the duration of one beat. In other words, it gets one beat. It looks like this: You remember that I told you that a song in standard (4/4) time gets…
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Strumming Half Notes and Whole Notes
This exercise combines whole notes with half notes. We know by now that a whole note gets four beats and that a half note gets two. For this exercise, we will strum the C chord on the 1st beat and hold it for a count of four. The, in measure two we will strum the C…
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Primary Notes On The D String
Primary Notes On The D String In this lesson, we’ll map out the primary notes on the D string of the guitar: D, E, F, G, A, B, and C. Do This… Pick up your guitar for this next part, follow the steps below and physically find each note along with us. If we take…
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Exercise Routine at 60 bpm (Alternate Picking)
Remember: you must put the practice time in to get faster! Fig. 1: Simple Alternate Picking Exercise Fig. 2: Alternate Picking Variation Fig. 3: One, Two, Four Fig. 4: Pentatonic Scale Fig. 5: Up The Strings Fig. 6: Down The Strings
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Exercise Routine at 60 bpm (Two-Finger Drills)
We’ll build speed step by step. In this session, we have speed-building exercises at 60 beats per minute. Fig. 1: First & Second Finger Fig. 2: First & Third Finger Fig. 3: First & Fourth Finger Fig.4: Second & Third Finger Fig. 5: Second & Fourth Finger Fig. 6: Third & Fourth Finger