Thanks for watching! If you want some free backing tracks (one of which I used in this video) you can grab them here: andrewclarkeguitar.com/p/slow-pop-pack
If you ever watch a good bass player play the guitar, you'll notice how different they play. Bass players, being an extension of the drummer, naturally play guitar as an extension of the drummer. It's fascinating!
I'm a bassist who views the bass as a pivot instrument. Most of the time it's following the drums, but if the drums are neither too tight (phil rudd) or too loose (keith moon), and there's a gap in the melody, feel free to dive into the melodic hole. Good bassists should be able to improvise given a key and a mode. If you're in a band and the main songwriter doesn't want you to occasionally take over lead duties, it's just not as fun. Be Stiff by Devo is one of my favorite "bass as it should be played" songs: Gerald Casale is doing the classic 12_4, except when the melody gets really busy, he gets busy with it.
@@LeBassiveOG Kick, tom, no snare is the basics. The responsibility of the bassist, to quote James Brown is "to give me the one., as in 1-2-3-4". I lay off the three if I can; if I can't, I walk over it, like I'll play two eighth notes over the three to deemphasize it. I dunno, it's sort of a matter of feel.
This is why when people are used to "strumming patterns" I try to get them to count the patterns out loud to understand what beats they're strumming on. Then I ask what beats the drums in the same song play on. Then which of those beats are kick vs. snare. Great exercise to get people to break free of thinking in terms of strumming patterns and be able to play any song by feel instead.
My timing sucks, at least I can't play to a metronome for very long since my mind wanders. When my mind wanders it goes to where where the song feels to be. I like your comment.
This is exactly what I do. I keep seeing educators teach different strumming patterns but always felt like there's no one pattern that fits all. Thanks for this, your videos are amazing, I subscribed immediately!
I think patterns are super neat as a mega beginner but they will really start to hinder your progress. It's best to learn about rhythms and time signatures later on.
@@junker154 yes! I've been so confused myself thinking "Is this the right pattern for a song". And even people generally expect you to copy the rhythm if you're covering a song but I think experimentation matters more.
As a beginner/intermediate guitar player, but experienced drummer, I’ve always done this. In the noob areas of the interweb that I frequent people often ask "what’s the strumming pattern" and it’s always sounded like the wrong question to ask.
I play rhythm, but I'm also the singer so for me it is keeping it simple with strumming. I love to practice lead in my spare time but I'm years away for playing lead
As a beginner I find a lot of value in your videos. Even if some of the lessons are more advanced than my skill level I can still apply something or take something away from them. Thank you! 🎸
I had the same issue of not completely understanding the lessons as a beginner but I came back to the videos after a year and the rest fell into place.
Listen to "Sunday Papers" by Joe Jackson to understand what he means by high hat and snare on guitar. A good example of this is on that song. It''s an old song but shows what he means.
Hey Andrew! Thank You for making this short but very Important & Effective insight "Lesson" on Rhythm or also on how to APROACH replicating a Drum-Kit Style on the Guitar + of course mentioning what´s absolutely important like (in my own personal opinion) the Timing you absolutely have to get down at some point as a growing Guitarist/ Guitar Player and Musician. No matter if on a Professional basis oder just as a Hobby for yourself. As long as it sounds Musical (that´s what I personally think there) you are definetily on the right way to become better in all sorts of rhytmic playing. Thats my experience from all moments of success and of course also from all failures or error-like attempts I´ve had since I started playing Guitar in March 2023! So yeah, just thank you for that point of View you focused on in this Video and I personally would absolutely love to see more content with similar topics, if you would make Videos about it :D Greetings & have a nice Day! ~Det
Andrew, you just gave me the greenlight. I’m learning guitar and have been struggling to keep the Strom pattern that some tutorials are teaching. My strumming is instinctively wanting to follow the drum pattern but I didn’t think I was right to do so it sounds better to me, it is more natural at least for me. Thanks for sharing great lesson.
Ha! Have to show this to my first guitar teacher! Thanks for the video! I am an experienced percussionist/drummer. I started leajrning to play the guitar about 3 years ago. I was instructede in the regulrar UDUD strumming, but I always tended to play «dynamically» as you call it. That is what a drummer/percussioner «hears» 😊 But I was corrected. When I started to play guitar on stage, I saw that the audience reacted much more positively to drum-style-strumming. And it has also helped me learn finger-style and chord/melody arrangements later on, and to add arpeggios etc. into rythm guitar.
Thanks for this video. I've been a guitarist for 30 years, and although I can play rhythm very well, I've never heard it explained like this. Game-changer! 🤯
Nice lesson. I've been separating the low notes (E,A,D) from the high notes (g, b, e), with variations for awhile. Along with striking the root note before the full strum, IF it serves the song. I have never tried that muted practice, but I'll give it a go. Thanks
I’ve always strummed the way you suggested but never made the connection between how I play and the drum pattern. When someone would ask how I figured out the strumming pattern I couldn’t really answer other than to say I just sort of feel it. Thanks for answering a question I didn’t know how to ask.
I do this on the bass, even in cover songs, I just think it's best to the song, just play the bass like it was a dumm kit most of the times. And it just feels right and good to listening too.
Love this! I used to be a drummer but now play acoustic guitar so I’ve been doing this type of thing all along it just came natural to me. I am going to subscribe and see what else you have available. Thanks
@@claudiocruzat8777 Being too young definitely isn't the problem, believe me! In the 90s with the likes of Oasis it just became strumming distorted guitar, which is about the least imaginative playing imaginable. I lost interest in pop/rock music in the 90s because of that sort of thing. If you can suggest some good (by which I mean imaginative and interesting) 90s rhythm guitar then I'll happily go and listen. 🙂
I think the same. Ever. Before specializing in being a good Guitar leader full of technique, we must explore and master the rhythm, according to the beat, so as not to be just a banal scout guitarist. Excelent vídeo and lesson. Bravo🖤👏👏👏👏🤘🤘🎼🎼
This is a great video for rythym players. All I've done for 35 years mostly is rhythm as I love it and never had much interest in lead parts. I never use strumming patterns intended to be used. In my opinion they are just there because something has to be and they majorly restrict style. But if you can feel the drums and hear the vocals you can do much more, and easily than whatever that stock pattern gives you.
Mad skills fella! …. (old guy advice) please run with whatever style you absolutely love, …. but just make sure it’s really, REALLY smart and sharp as f! …. go crush it and best of luck along with.
Another great video! I've personally stepped back from solo styles of practice to increase my rhythm playing or campfire/acoustic sing along stuff. One of my favorite techniques it palm muting bass notes and letting highs ring out, so this fit right in!
Just go listen to the band “her’s”… best guitar parts I’ve ever heard across all decades of music. Dudes were brilliant. And the lead singer/guitar player was actually firstly a drummer
Very interesting technique, sounds really good with drums, i started on drums when i was 14, so i could relate very easily.but should be very helpful to us all for rythum guitar keep up the good work
if you could do more content like this, that'd be awesome. Might be your niche. More samples of how to hear and adapt to drum beats. With this video you were attacking a huge field. I'd even buy a course that teaches this stuff for real life. Nice share.
Great lesson, thank you so much. I've been working on this topic recently but your breakdown made things much clearer. New sub here. And even if that wasn't the case, the Baum Wingman in the corner already convinced me this is a player worth following ;0)
Hey man, keep at it with bar chords, they take a while to get right, but they give you such a great dynamic sound, then when you've got it, you can learn the CAGED system which is so so handy 🎉
That was quite helpful. Been learning for a few years and struggling with the rhythm. Cant find an instructor on the island I live on so have been learning online. This should help quite a bit. Looking forward to checking out more of your lessons, got yourself another subscriber. 🎸🙂
today i learned that despite having basically 0 knowledge of drumming and/or musical theory and only ever playing basic ass punk and grunge guitar, i play it like a drummer
Let me save this dude some time. Go out and find the first ten years of Ventures albums. This is where rhythm guitar was invented. Don Wilson layed down rhythms not previously heard. He is the King!
Thanks, good stuff. Also take some drum lessons. Play piano, guitar and bass. Avoid backing tracks. Use metronome on 2 and 4. Advanced , place metronome on last subdivision of the measure.
Most guitarists have got a crappy tone and drown it in over application of effects and can't get into the strum or dynamic zone properly...it can become a dreadful lifelong bad habit and rob them of what's always been ready to hatch.
Hey Andrew, just wanted to say thank you for your videos and content. I'm the rhythm guitarist in my band and I believe that rhythm is the most important ingredient in every song, so your videos are very very useful. Keep it up!
this reminded me of a video where Dave Grohl explained how he wrote everlong, and he basically said he sees the guitar as if it were a drum kit, since he is a former drummer if you pay attention to everlong's intro, its exactly how you described
Easy: #1 have Scottish ancestors who were tenant farmers kicked off the landlord's property when the industrial revolution caused the price of wool to skyrocket. #2 Move to Australia #3, Have a really scottish name. Like Malcolm Young. #4. Drop out of school with your younger brother.
Thanks for watching! If you want some free backing tracks (one of which I used in this video) you can grab them here: andrewclarkeguitar.com/p/slow-pop-pack
Thanks Andrew I needed it😊
If you ever watch a good bass player play the guitar, you'll notice how different they play. Bass players, being an extension of the drummer, naturally play guitar as an extension of the drummer. It's fascinating!
Idk how to think about it since I’m both a drummer and a guitarist
I'm a bassist who views the bass as a pivot instrument. Most of the time it's following the drums, but if the drums are neither too tight (phil rudd) or too loose (keith moon), and there's a gap in the melody, feel free to dive into the melodic hole.
Good bassists should be able to improvise given a key and a mode. If you're in a band and the main songwriter doesn't want you to occasionally take over lead duties, it's just not as fun. Be Stiff by Devo is one of my favorite "bass as it should be played" songs: Gerald Casale is doing the classic 12_4, except when the melody gets really busy, he gets busy with it.
@@LeBassiveOG Kick, tom, no snare is the basics. The responsibility of the bassist, to quote James Brown is "to give me the one., as in 1-2-3-4". I lay off the three if I can; if I can't, I walk over it, like I'll play two eighth notes over the three to deemphasize it. I dunno, it's sort of a matter of feel.
This is why when people are used to "strumming patterns" I try to get them to count the patterns out loud to understand what beats they're strumming on. Then I ask what beats the drums in the same song play on. Then which of those beats are kick vs. snare. Great exercise to get people to break free of thinking in terms of strumming patterns and be able to play any song by feel instead.
My timing sucks, at least I can't play to a metronome for very long since my mind wanders. When my mind wanders it goes to where where the song feels to be. I like your comment.
This is exactly what I do. I keep seeing educators teach different strumming patterns but always felt like there's no one pattern that fits all. Thanks for this, your videos are amazing, I subscribed immediately!
I think patterns are super neat as a mega beginner but they will really start to hinder your progress. It's best to learn about rhythms and time signatures later on.
@@junker154 yes! I've been so confused myself thinking "Is this the right pattern for a song". And even people generally expect you to copy the rhythm if you're covering a song but I think experimentation matters more.
I enjoyed this video. Dave Grohl talked about this, but haven’t seen a lesson on it. Thank you
Glad you liked it!
I was thinking of the same thing.
As a beginner/intermediate guitar player, but experienced drummer, I’ve always done this. In the noob areas of the interweb that I frequent people often ask "what’s the strumming pattern" and it’s always sounded like the wrong question to ask.
I mean, it's a drumming pattern at this point but it's still a pattern to be honest
I play rhythm, but I'm also the singer so for me it is keeping it simple with strumming. I love to practice lead in my spare time but I'm years away for playing lead
Always nice to see you providing easy to understand step-by-step methods about difficult concepts! Then still some practice required... no magic!
As a beginner I find a lot of value in your videos. Even if some of the lessons are more advanced than my skill level I can still apply something or take something away from them. Thank you! 🎸
I had the same issue of not completely understanding the lessons as a beginner but I came back to the videos after a year and the rest fell into place.
That's great to hear!
Ditto
in my youth i played drums . months ago I started to try guitar . i always wondered why I don't get out the drums of my guitar !😄👍🏼thank you !
Listen to "Sunday Papers" by Joe Jackson to understand what he means by high hat and snare on guitar. A good example of this is on that song. It''s an old song but shows what he means.
Wow joe jackson, I didn’t think to many people still alive that’s ever heard of him
love Joe Jackson and his music 😊
Hey Andrew! Thank You for making this short but very Important & Effective insight "Lesson" on Rhythm or also on how to APROACH replicating a Drum-Kit Style on the Guitar + of course mentioning what´s absolutely important like (in my own personal opinion) the Timing you absolutely have to get down at some point as a growing Guitarist/ Guitar Player and Musician. No matter if on a Professional basis oder just as a Hobby for yourself. As long as it sounds Musical (that´s what I personally think there) you are definetily on the right way to become better in all sorts of rhytmic playing. Thats my experience from all moments of success and of course also from all failures or error-like attempts I´ve had since I started playing Guitar in March 2023!
So yeah, just thank you for that point of View you focused on in this Video and I personally would absolutely love to see more content with similar topics, if you would make Videos about it :D
Greetings & have a nice Day!
~Det
You're totally right! I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I'll definitely be making more videos on topics like this in the future. Cheers!
This was a great video and appreciate the new way to practice.
Andrew, you just gave me the greenlight. I’m learning guitar and have been struggling to keep the Strom pattern that some tutorials are teaching. My strumming is instinctively wanting to follow the drum pattern but I didn’t think I was right to do so it sounds better to me, it is more natural at least for me. Thanks for sharing great lesson.
Ha! Have to show this to my first guitar teacher! Thanks for the video!
I am an experienced percussionist/drummer. I started leajrning to play the guitar about 3 years ago. I was instructede in the regulrar UDUD strumming, but I always tended to play «dynamically» as you call it. That is what a drummer/percussioner «hears» 😊 But I was corrected. When I started to play guitar on stage, I saw that the audience reacted much more positively to drum-style-strumming. And it has also helped me learn finger-style and chord/melody arrangements later on, and to add arpeggios etc. into rythm guitar.
Excellent tutorial! I'm a hobbyist drummer/piano/guitar guy and really appreciate the straight forward lesson on dynamics. Thank you. Just subscribed.
The best rhythm guitarist I’ve listened to is Johnny Marr, a master of this style
Jangle pop overall I think has much better rhythm playing than any other type of music. Marr is a master of jangle playing.
Greatest rhythm guitarist of all time is the late Malcolm Young from AC/DC. RIP Malcolm 🎸
@@Michael-oy3pz the first rhythm guitarist that comes to mind is izzy from guns n roses and i think he blows malcolm out of the water
Thanks for this video. I've been a guitarist for 30 years, and although I can play rhythm very well, I've never heard it explained like this. Game-changer! 🤯
Nice lesson. I've been separating the low notes (E,A,D) from the high notes (g, b, e), with variations for awhile. Along with striking the root note before the full strum, IF it serves the song.
I have never tried that muted practice, but I'll give it a go. Thanks
Nice! Yeah, practicing with the muted strum is definitely a fun way to work on it.
Great tips!! Cheers Andrew! We play a few different styles in my band, and it’s always great to lock in with the drummer.
Awesome. Thanks for watching!
This video was a hidden gem, thanks!
Thanks for watching!!
I’ve always strummed the way you suggested but never made the connection between how I play and the drum pattern. When someone would ask how I figured out the strumming pattern I couldn’t really answer other than to say I just sort of feel it. Thanks for answering a question I didn’t know how to ask.
I do this on the bass, even in cover songs, I just think it's best to the song, just play the bass like it was a dumm kit most of the times. And it just feels right and good to listening too.
Love this! I used to be a drummer but now play acoustic guitar so I’ve been doing this type of thing all along it just came natural to me. I am going to subscribe and see what else you have available. Thanks
Appreciate that 🙏
I wish there was more out there about rhythm-playing. It's 99% about soloing, which is at most 5% of what most guitarists do.
In the 90s it was all rythm guitar. Maybe you are too young. 😂 IT happened, believe me.
@@claudiocruzat8777 Being too young definitely isn't the problem, believe me! In the 90s with the likes of Oasis it just became strumming distorted guitar, which is about the least imaginative playing imaginable. I lost interest in pop/rock music in the 90s because of that sort of thing. If you can suggest some good (by which I mean imaginative and interesting) 90s rhythm guitar then I'll happily go and listen. 🙂
This is Patrick Stump's style - he originally auditioned for FOB as a drummer
Outstanding thanks you’re the first lesson I’ve ever seen regarding rhythm tips
Thanks for watching!
Excellent rhythm guitar lesson
As a drummer learning to be better at guitar, this video is extremely helpful. Thank you.
You're welcome!
I think the same. Ever. Before specializing in being a good Guitar leader full of technique, we must explore and master the rhythm, according to the beat, so as not to be just a banal scout guitarist.
Excelent vídeo and lesson.
Bravo🖤👏👏👏👏🤘🤘🎼🎼
This is a great video for rythym players. All I've done for 35 years mostly is rhythm as I love it and never had much interest in lead parts. I never use strumming patterns intended to be used. In my opinion they are just there because something has to be and they majorly restrict style. But if you can feel the drums and hear the vocals you can do much more, and easily than whatever that stock pattern gives you.
I really struggle with rhythm playing. These are great ideas. Thanks.
You're welcome!
I love it! Thank you!
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Excellent thanks.
No worries!
Great lesson 👍
Thanks for watching!
Great tips…thanks!
You're welcome!
Andrew, that was really well done. Excellent video for all level of players.
Much appreciated!
That was truly helpful.
great tips
Excellent.... cheers from Canada...
Thanks for the useful video.
Mad skills fella! …. (old guy advice) please run with whatever style you absolutely love, …. but just make sure it’s really, REALLY smart and sharp as f!
…. go crush it and best of luck along with.
Thanks for the lesson.
My pleasure!
Thank you
You're welcome!
Beautiful guitar
Another great video! I've personally stepped back from solo styles of practice to increase my rhythm playing or campfire/acoustic sing along stuff. One of my favorite techniques it palm muting bass notes and letting highs ring out, so this fit right in!
Guitar is an any and all can be done with music instrument. ❤🎸 🤘🏼
Just go listen to the band “her’s”… best guitar parts I’ve ever heard across all decades of music. Dudes were brilliant. And the lead singer/guitar player was actually firstly a drummer
very interesting, thanks a lot Andrew thanks a lot
Thanks for watching!
Great vid
Very interesting technique, sounds really good with drums, i started on drums when i was 14, so i could relate very easily.but should be very helpful to us all for rythum guitar keep up the good work
Thanks for watching!
Brilliant!
Good stuff!
Thanks!
preciate the free sauce mn
if you could do more content like this, that'd be awesome. Might be your niche. More samples of how to hear and adapt to drum beats. With this video you were attacking a huge field. I'd even buy a course that teaches this stuff for real life. Nice share.
This is very helpful. Thank you.
Great lesson, thank you so much. I've been working on this topic recently but your breakdown made things much clearer. New sub here. And even if that wasn't the case, the Baum Wingman in the corner already convinced me this is a player worth following ;0)
Appreciate that! Yes, the Wingman is an awesome guitar :)
Thank you
thanks Paul Klein
That's a real cool way of seeing things. I'll try to incorporate it in my next jam sessions.
1 and 2 and 3 and 4 ♾️ upstrums thumb rakes boom chuck mutes chord squeezes chord outlines scales
can you make a video on chord progression with a capo cause some of us still struggle with bar chords
Hey man, keep at it with bar chords, they take a while to get right, but they give you such a great dynamic sound, then when you've got it, you can learn the CAGED system which is so so handy 🎉
As a drummer... This is interesting!
E=bass
A=floor Tom
D=low tom
G=high tom
B=snare
e=hats
Hey, sorry for quitting the video at the beginning, it's still way too advanced for me
Pretty cool lesson😃😃
That was quite helpful. Been learning for a few years and struggling with the rhythm. Cant find an instructor on the island I live on so have been learning online. This should help quite a bit. Looking forward to checking out more of your lessons, got yourself another subscriber. 🎸🙂
Great!
Strumming patterns are great for beginners. I teach them.
today i learned that despite having basically 0 knowledge of drumming and/or musical theory and only ever playing basic ass punk and grunge guitar, i play it like a drummer
As a drummer i play the guitar like that subconsciously.
Let me save this dude some time. Go out and find the first ten years of Ventures albums. This is where rhythm guitar was invented. Don Wilson layed down rhythms not previously heard. He is the King!
Anyone wanting to see a great rhythm guitarist should look at Kirk Fletcher,"A master of rhythm.
Its that a jazzmaster American vintage 2
Yes, it is!
the james hetfield classical
Thanks, good stuff. Also take some drum lessons. Play piano, guitar and bass.
Avoid backing tracks.
Use metronome on 2 and 4. Advanced , place metronome on last subdivision of the measure.
Bro you kind of look like you could be MinuteTech's brother lol
Izzy izzy izzy AFD
Bluegrass has been doing this for decades
So it’s bad? I don’t get what you’re trying to say.
Who hurt you?
Yeah ? But they kept it secret and never told Anyone .😂😂😂
Not for James Hetfeild
James Hetfield: I'm a drummer but on guitar
How to play like a great rhythm guitarist??? Listen and watch Malcom Young, His older brother George knew all the chords...
I’m not gay or trans but you have great hair
The tattoo is sucky. So distraxring
I'm not Vietnamese but that comment made no sense to me.
@@mrpotato4441 Quiet, peasant.
@@mrpotato4441 Learn how to construct a sentence first :/
@@capykepro You remind me of Brad Kalvo 😂
Most guitarists have got a crappy tone and drown it in over application of effects and can't get into the strum or dynamic zone properly...it can become a dreadful lifelong bad habit and rob them of what's always been ready to hatch.
Polyrhythms, 2/4 on A&D, 5/6 on G, B, &E for example. Sound easy? Lol...try it
Sounds tough! You should share an example doing it yourself and I'll try to copy it 😅
Dave Grohl basically.
Basically what Dave Grohl said...
Guitarists WERE the rhythm back in the 1930’s!
No your rong
Good info. Less taking ,please.
Talking is how he delivers the info… less opinions, please.
Should have said something in the title that its not about metal.
Great rhythm means you will meet more musicians that want to play with you.
Hey Andrew, just wanted to say thank you for your videos and content. I'm the rhythm guitarist in my band and I believe that rhythm is the most important ingredient in every song, so your videos are very very useful. Keep it up!
this reminded me of a video where Dave Grohl explained how he wrote everlong, and he basically said he sees the guitar as if it were a drum kit, since he is a former drummer
if you pay attention to everlong's intro, its exactly how you described
Totally!
Great vid, Andrew! First step for me will be setting up similar tone.
You are an excellent teacher. Thank you.
Thank you so much :)
loved ti, great tip~~!
Awesome video!!
Thanks!
Fantastic information Thanks Andrew 👍
My pleasure!
Easy: #1 have Scottish ancestors who were tenant farmers kicked off the landlord's property when the industrial revolution caused the price of wool to skyrocket.
#2 Move to Australia
#3, Have a really scottish name. Like Malcolm Young.
#4. Drop out of school with your younger brother.
This is such a great way to approach rhythm guitar. As a drummer first, it has translated VERY well into me being a proficient guitar player quickly.