Improve your Rhythm, Groove and Tone by using this Rhythm Exercises for Guitar. Rhythm is quite important and represent one of the three key element of Music: Melody, Rhythm and Harmony.
There are many different kinds of Rhythm. We usually group them in Genre or Style. You probably heard many times something like “in this song play a funk/blues/rock/ jazz kind of rhythm”. The one thing that they all have in common would be Solidity, Groove and Timing.
There is nothing worst than have a bad Rhythm
There are lots of Exercises we can do to drastically improve our Groove and I hope you will find them helpful. Do one exercise a time. Pick up the style you like and stick with it for at least one week, practicing the same exercise till you get it right. Some of them are easy some others are much more difficult. I would recommend you to start from stage one … but I know you will probably won’t.
- Stage 1 – Technique Approach
- Stage 2 – Which Chord? Acoustic or Electric?
- Stage 3 – Mixing Notes
- Stage 4a – Basic Rhythm Patterns – Acoustic Guitar
- Stage 4b – Basic Rhythm Patterns – Electric Guitar
- Stage 5 – Complex Rhythm –
- Stage 6a – Rhythm Patterns Acoustic Guitar
- Stage 6b – Rhythm Patterns Electric Guitar
- Stage 7a – Let’s go Pro!! Acoustic Guitar Rhythm
- Stage 7b – Let’s go Pro!! Electric Guitar Rhythm
- Stage 8 – Pop Rhythm
- Stage 9 – Blues Rhythm
- Stage 10 – Funk Rhythm
- Stage 11 – Rock Rhythm
- Stage 12 – Jazz Rhythm
- Stage 13 – Bossa Nova Rhythm
Make sure you will practice one stage at a time. I can’t stress it enough. I know it is really easy to click around on all this links and watching all the videos but at the end of the day, you want to have one thing you focusing on. Once you have nailed it … move on to the next task.