Guitar Tutorial: Basics of Rhythm Explained

breakdown of meter

A basic understanding of rhythm is crucial for all guitar players. This is true whether you play guitar for pleasure, or have much loftier goals.

When you don’t have the basics of rhythm down, you will find it much harder to play songs than it needs to be.

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Guitar Lesson: A Great Guitar Technique Building Song

F major scale 5th position

Today we will apply alternate picking, sweep picking and string skipping guitar techniques to a fun bluegrass piece from the 1800’s called “Jack Lamson’s Hornpipe”.

This piece offers quite a lot for guitar players. As I mentioned, the song is fun to play and works well at all tempos.

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