If you want to get better faster, use a metronome. A metronome either clicks or beeps a consistent beat that you play along with. It helps develop your sense of rhythm and helps build your muscle memory as you practice.
The simplest metronome is a ticking clock, which beats (ticks) 60 times per minute. Try strumming the G chord to this beat. Try to be exact and time your strum precisely on each beat (tick), and you’ll get an idea of what its like to play along with a metronome.
It’s important to use a metronome while you practice. It’s important to use a metronome while you practice. It’s important to use a metronome while you practice. It’s important to use a metronome while you practice.
I think the point is clear,
Much respect,
The Musician’s Toolbox
Strumming is essentially just down and up, down and up. Those are the only two directions you can go! Creating strum patterns is simply a matter of keeping a consistent downward and upward motion, and then purposefully missing a down or an up strum.
In music notation, you would see this as a rest or a tie, but you don’t have to know all that just yet, just try this little exercise:
Strum down and up on your guitar strings as if to a ticking clock. Tick (down) Tock (up).
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If you want to get better at something, you have to put in the time and practice. Since this is our first blog, we’ll get to the point:
Perfect Practice Makes Perfect.
What this means is, the attitude you have and the way you practice ultimately shapes the way you play. If every time you sit down and practice you make a conscious effort to use good posture, good technique, a metronome (to keep the beat) and play with confidence, you will improve.
Everyone else will lie to you and tell you that its easy to become a guitar god.
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