基本吉他扫弦节奏练习

Let's talk about some basic approaches to strumming the guitar.�

The first thing you've got to do is to play in time. It's much better, even at the very advanced level, to play a simple rhythm in correct time than to play a more complicated rhythm with inaccurate time.�

For that reason, it's a great idea to practice with the metronome. You probably don't want to, but it can really help.�

First, we're going to strum a constant flow of even beats, which are grouped into units of four. Because of this grouping, they're called quarter notes. I'm going to use a G chord for this demonstration.��

Now, we're going to divide those beats by two, resulting in eighth notes.

Now, let's imagine that these eighth notes form a grid. By removing some of those notes and replacing them with rests, or silence, we can create a lot of different rhythms.

I'm going to remove one at a time until I end up with a more simple strumming pattern.

First I'll set a metronome to 100 beats per minute. Here is the patterns.�

First I'll remove the fifth one.

Then the fifth and the eighth one.

Then second, fifth and eighth.

And finally, second, third, fifth and eighth.

So you can see many rhythms can be built from this basic grid.

Try it yourself--use a metronome. And maybe come up with some of your own rhythms.