Members Goody Posted April 21, 2003 Members Posted April 21, 2003 I need help Been playing quite a while , and i have a lot of trouble learning songs simply because i have no idea how to count and get the rhythme of them right. When working with a metrogome on fixed scale patters im fine , i can count easily enough but when songs start mixing lots of different beats together i get confused Any help ?
Members riffdaddy Posted April 22, 2003 Members Posted April 22, 2003 Talk to a percussionist (not a drummer, if you know what I mean) and ask for a few lessons. Get a drum book and a small hand drum and learn to play rhythms. Seperate it from your instrument. You're still learning on your instrument and you probably don't have the technical capacity you'd like to have. Take it down to the very basic level--using your hands. Try this method and you will likely suceed. Good luck!
Members Terje Posted April 22, 2003 Members Posted April 22, 2003 Most of our music has four beats to the bar (there is also 3/4 time but that's about it). So you need to be able to count those four beats. Either out loud or in your mind. And you need to be able to count the number of bars at the beginning of each bar. Takes some practice but evetually it becomes automatic, since most of our music is also divided into groups of two, four or eight bar long phrases.
Members Mike_E_McGee Posted April 23, 2003 Members Posted April 23, 2003 Break it down to work on what you need to work on. Don't play any notes. Just mute with your left hand, and pick/strum the rhythm off the page. (this is assuming you're reading off of sheet music). If you're doing it the "jazz" way (listen, and reproduce), do the same. Play with the recording, but make your guit into a percussion instrument by muting with the left hand. Once the rhythm is ingrained into you, slow it way down, and add the notes/chords back in.If you are using TAB, you are SOL. I've never seen anything convey a piece's rhythm well, other than standard notation.I'm like a walking college advert today, BUT...Your local college probably has a few theory classes you could take, and I guarantee they will spend a bit of time on Rhythmic Dictation. That is a great way to sharpen your skills. When they get into melodic dictation, drop the class.....I'm joking of course, but WOW! I had a real hard time with melodic dictation (She'd play a line, and you'd write it out. No instrument to plunk it out on. Just hear it, and commit it to paper. When I left college I was doing this with 4 part chorales! Damn I wish I could have stuck it out, and gotten that degree... )
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