Let’s Combine The Basic Rhythms
Since you have to keep your eyes peeled on the rhythm and just let the fretting hand wander, these exercises are reading, as well as technical exercises.
You could just stare at the rhythm, or you could just memorize it and in your mind focus on it as the fretting hand travels up and down.
Here they all are written out.
Practise these exercises until you can play them all comfortably.
In the next step we do all this again, although we will instead sweep.
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Chromatic & Sweeping | Step-by-step guitar course
The chromatic and sweeping exercises will sort out any problems you have with synchronizing your left and right hand as you play with a pick.
Take the Chromatic & Sweeping Course and you’ll will improve your accuracy, build speed, as well as train you in reading rhythms better.
Metronome
Spytunes Tap Tempo Metronome can help you when practising songs and exercises by getting yourself organized.
Manually enter the tempo or simply tap it in. You can also add accents, helping you learn complicated rhythmical patterns.
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This was a guitar lesson about combining rhythms, by Dan Lundholm. Discover more about him and learn guitar with Spytunes.
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