Mark Wein

This is the first lesson in this series on Rhythm Guitar. I'll be adding material to this lesson and there will be quite a bit in the way of backing tracks and exercises to supplement this. In this lesson we are discussing how to feel and subdivide time while you are strumming chords.

If you haven't work on them yet it might be a good idea to go through these lessons at this point:

Time and Rhythm

Rhythm Exercises #1

Eighth Notes and Subdivision ...

We are continuing with the "helper lessons" for my book "Foundations for Guitar" this lesson and the next. We are now starting to subdivide time into eighth notes, the first half of the beat being called the "upbeat" and the second half being the "downbeat"...next lesson will be applying this idea to strumming chords.

Here are the first two lessons if you haven't done them already:

Time and Rhythm

Rhythm Exercises #1

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This is the second of my "helper" lessons from "Foundations for Guitar" on rhythm, and we are working on page 17. If you haven't already go back and do the first lesson on Time and Rhythm.

The exercise here is tapping your foot on the pulse (the metronome beat which is set to 60bpm), counting out loud and clapping on the rhythms that are written...I explain it pretty fully in the video...if you don't own a metronome there are a few nice online ones that are free..check this ...

As you can imagine I am very excited to announce that my book has finally been included on most of the major online booksellers. To "celebrate" the event I am going to do a series of "helper lessons" for my book "Foundations for Guitar". I am putting a few of these together to help you guys who are working from the book but are not able to study with a teacher.

This lesson ...

One of the things that happens to me as a Guitar teacher on a daily basis is the fight for "time".

Not as in "scheduling or trying to find more hours in the day", but convincing students (especially adults who have played for any length of time before taking lessons) that they need to be able to count rhythms and to feel the "pulse" of the music while they are playing.

Typically its a student who plays in a band already and comes to their lessons to ...