Playing Rhythm Guitar: Basics Part 11 – Counting Rhythms Revisited or a Simple Trick to More Accurate Time Keeping

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In this tutorial, we look at how to determine the best way to count rhythms in a piece of guitar music.

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Playing Rhythm Guitar: Basics Part 9 – Strumming Eighth Note Chord Progressions

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Now that you are familiar with the basics of countingstrumming and tapping your foot in time with eighth notes, we can turn our attention to some fun chord progressions that use eighth notes.

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Playing Rhythm Guitar: Basics Part 8 – How to Strum Eighth Notes on Guitar

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How to Strum Eighth Note Patterns

For whole noteshalf notes and quarter notes, the down-stroke is usually used.

To play eighth notes, we will use a combination of down-strokes and up-strokes.

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Playing Rhythm Guitar: Basics Part 7 – Understanding Eighth Notes

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When you play rhythm guitar, some of the most common rhythms you will encounter use eighth notes.

In this tutorial we begin our look at the basics of eighth notes.

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Playing Rhythm Guitar: Basics Part 6 – Muting and Understanding Rests

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In our previous tutorial, we looked at how whole note, half note and quarter note rests are notated.

Now it’s time to apply your new knowledge to chord progressions.  We are also going to cover how to mute strings so you get a nice clean sound.

For this example, we are going to use A, D and E major chords.

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