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Post by fred7 on Dec 26, 2020 23:17:52 GMT
Not sure if this advice has already been given but I always tell new players not to try to change chords quickly. Most new players try to change from one chord to another instantly which breaks the rhythm and sound whilst they try to form the new chord. Try strumming the chord, then lifting fingers away from the fretboard and strum the open strings whilst lining up your fingers for the next chord. This gives time to think about the next chord and makes the sound flow much more smoothly resulting in a feeling of instant improvement and confidence.
So, from G to C might go like this :-
Down strum G Up strum open strings Down strum C
Very basic and obvious to the experienced player but very effective to the newbie.
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Post by andyhowell on Mar 1, 2021 16:32:04 GMT
Very basic and obvious to the experienced player but very effective to the newbie. Very important I think — one of the biggest problems I hear is people not mastering the rythmn and tempo — the changing chord advice is well given.
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Post by vikingblues on Mar 3, 2021 19:50:57 GMT
Good advice from fred7 on the open string strum. I also recall a help for smooth chord changes that I heard of is thinking about the chord you're moving to in advance of the move itself (i.e. while still playing the current chord) can help a lot. It did me anyway. It's like the muscle memory is pre-prepared. Or something. It does seem to make the process more efficient. Mark
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Post by bellyshere on Mar 4, 2021 15:40:30 GMT
My advice would be take up the drums. It’s just hitting things. (0:
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Post by Gregg Hermetech on Mar 4, 2021 18:27:27 GMT
Good advice from fred7 on the open string strum. I also recall a help for smooth chord changes that I heard of is thinking about the chord you're moving to in advance of the move itself (i.e. while still playing the current chord) can help a lot. It did me anyway. It's like the muscle memory is pre-prepared. Or something. It does seem to make the process more efficient. Mark It's funny cos I've seen internet guitar tuition videos teaching you how to NOT do the open string strum, because they think it sounds bad. I guess maybe an intermediate/advanced technique? It's good to be able to choose whether to do it, I guess. But I agree for beginners it's better to get the changes as smooth as possible with the open string strum. Worst thing about beginning is the stuttery chord changes. Wrong notes don't matter so much, but poor rhythm/timing/changes really draw attention to themselves. I often do the "thinking about the new chord before you move to it" too, works well a lot of the time. I got a couple of techniques from JustinGuitar that I still use sometimes for changes that are giving me grief, one where you keep practising the same change over and over for a minute, to see how many you can do, not worrying too much about precision or accuracy, then writing down how many you can do. Do it every day and it's EXTREMELY encouraging to see the number keep going up. It worked for me, and my daughter last summer learning Uke. Another one is where you do the change really slowly, but try to start forming the new shape in "mid air" with your fingers, before putting the new chord down, it really helped with accuracy and speed. I think they are both mentioned in his free Beginner's Course.
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Post by walkingdecay on Jun 23, 2021 8:00:39 GMT
Earlier on in this thread I claimed that guitarists can benefit from using a basic keyboard. That may make more sense in light of videos like this one, where the demonstration of fitting a tune to the chords C,F,G and A minor is as applicable to a fretboard as a keyboard.
I'll add that guitarists could do worse than subscribe to Jess Witt's channel, which is packed with good, basic musical knowledge.
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Post by walkingdecay on Jul 9, 2022 8:31:56 GMT
Again, this lady is a great teacher of piano (my wife, who's taken up playing since she retired, swears by her), and yet in this case the video is as applicable to reading and employing rhythm in tabs as in notation.
It underlines how much tab readers already know if they're thinking of moving on to reading notation, by the way.
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