Brooklyn Guitar Lessons with Bryan Wade

Guitar Lessons in Long Island City, Queens & Clinton Hill, Brooklyn

Category: Rhythm

  • How to Play To a Metronome? Do it Wrong!

    How to Play To a Metronome? Do it Wrong!

    How To Use a Metronome to Practice GuitarNo joke. Try it:

      • Set the metronome to a slow, comfortable pace.
      • Play just one note on each beat.
      • Then speed up just a tiny bit WITHOUT CHANGING THE METRONOME…. Feel that tense, rushing feeling.
      • Slow back down to the beat… Feel that smoothness.
      • Now slow down just a tiny bit… Feel that sluggish pull.
      Speed up just enough to get synchronized again… Feel that smoothness again.

    Playing in time is a matter of constantly feeling for this anxious or dopey energy and then adjusting until you feel that sense of relaxing into the beat. It’s not a thinking thing. It’s a feel thing.

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  • Guitar Game: Improvise With Your Name

    Guitar Game: Improvise With Your Name

    Use Names for Guitar ImprovisationBored with playing the same predictable rhythms when you’re improvising? Break it up using the rhythms in names.
    Say these names aloud and feel the rhythmic pulses in them, especially where the stressed syllables are:

    Jimi Hendrix
    Nirvana
    Elliot Easton
    John Lee Hooker
    Bohemian Rhapsody
    The Grateful Dead
    Queens Of The Stone Age
    Florence And The Machine
    Red Hot Chili Peppers

    The stressed syllable is the downbeat. Now try this:

    • Pick 1 and play a scale using the rhythm of that name.
    • Pick 2 and play a scale mixing the rhythms of those names.
    • Freak Out.
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