But i would also say it is very important to incorporate what you don't know into what you know, blend it in, so it feels natural. He does that in this lesson. Great player.
@@SeanDriscollSoMuchSound bruh what was theat toxic comment, man I have been dying toget someone to explain to me why the fuck guitarists call modes positions, and then positions #'s for the fret. its so fucking confusing, from a piano playter. Glad you're alive! this was a killer lesson. for scale sequencing.
Holy moly. Great exercises! If anyone else is here 7 years later, I made some notes and an overview for myself. Exercise 1: Swing 2 & 4 -- 0:40 -- Set metronome to half speed, and use clicks as 2nd & 4th beat. -- Also use on pracicing new tunes. Exercise 2: Slow Jam (Torture) -- 2:55 -- Set metronome to 20 bpm. One note in a scale per click. Exercise 3: 4 On 4 Off -- 4:35 -- Set Time Guru to play 4 beats, then pause for 4 beats. Exercise 4: One, One and Done -- [Next video] -- Set up to hear first beat of the first bar, the first beat of the second, and silence for 2 bars. Exercise 5: Syncopation Nation [Next video] -- Set Time Guru to play the (2e&)a and the (4e)&. (see the video) Exercise 6: The disorienter -- [Next video] -- Variation of exercise 1. Set Time Guru to click beat 2, and try to keep time with this. Exercise 7: Song form exercise -- [Next video] -- Just the downbeats in a 12 bar blues. Set to click first beat in bar 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 9. First 3 blog post: somuchsound.blogspot.com/2012/10/improve-your-groove-7-metronome-tricks.html Last 4 blog post: somuchsound.blogspot.com/2013/02/improve-your-groove-part-2-7-metronome.html
I get the metronome exercice at a slower pace, but when you practised on your tune at 2.30 i don't see how you / can t hear if beats 2 and 4 fall in the right notes. My ear cannot process both sounds at that speed.
Melodic minor scale. Play any major scale but flat the 3rd step. Technically, you're only supposed to play it this way ascending and then natural minor descending (3rd, 6th, 7th are flatted) but everybody breaks this textbook rule.
Thanks man. I do have an Adam Rogers transcription in the can. That will probably be out in a couple weeks after I figure out the best way to teach what it is he's doing.
Thanks Ellis. I don't have a straight answer as it's kind of yes and no. I'm not constantly subdividing, I think mostly my attention is on the specific tempo or maybe the beat pattern of a song. If it's a very slow tempo, maybe something under 60bpm, then I'd say yes I'm probably feeling at least 8th note subdivisions.
...or even 32 off, or even something where you've gone the whole day off musical meditation style then just come back on time - you could quit metronome practise after that for good.
He Sean, great work, thanks! Checkt this Rhythm podcast about On-Beat & Off-Beat & Syncopation. Let me now what you think: ua-cam.com/video/m98BIl_W7lE/v-deo.html
I study with this method From several years, in this video there are only basical notions. (I play double bass. When i try to Say about this with musicians of My country, they look me like an alien!!
as a serious student of percussion I must say he killed that 20 bpm exercise, every note was right on point! It's not that easy (especially to lock in right away without letting such a slow tempo sink in to the mind / body for a while)
Excellent lesson. I see you only have 9 videos on your UA-cam channel? I think it's Pretty amazing you have 3600 subscribers. Maybe you can make some more vids and get to 100K subscribers?!
Really kind of you to say, and I'm working on more videos. The thing is, I'm a professional freelance musician and make no money from these videos so they're not at the top of my list of things to do, though I really enjoy doing them. In a perfect world I'd put out one once a month but it just comes down to time... but I'm working on it. Thanks again.
All the entry's from Dictionary.com Thesaurus, without the Antonym's. With the one exception of the very last listing. and, Think perhaps you are on the wrong site. . .?
Hey Josh-- for the first 2 & 4 exercise I'm using a metronome on my computer called Metronome which you can download for free. The other two metronomes I use are on my iPhone, one called TimeGuru for the last exercise and one called Tempo. Links to all of them are on my somuchsound.blogspot site.
Hey Sean, what metronome are using? I am always on the lookout for good sounding metronome and that one sounds fine! I look forward to part II. Cheers -Josh
These are all great exercises. Thanks for the post. I'm always looking for & trying to come up with my own "metronome games." To add a twist to metronome on 2 & 4: try to put (hear) the clicks on the "& of 1" and the "& of 3." This is an extremely difficult exercise I got from a drummer. It's hard enough to just hear it, it's a whole other difficulty level to actually play something along to the click like this. You can also do something similar in time feel 3/4. I learned this from a guitarist: place click on 1 and the "& of 2" (you should be feeling the dotted quarter note pulse). And another twist on that exercise, place the click on the offbeat of anyone of those 3 beats--I'm currently working on "& of 1." Metronome needs to be set at a slow pulse. It's extremely difficult, but it will definitely improve your time-feel & groove.
Every so often you stumble on a video that's not part of a weekly "x things to do" that's part of a revenue driving youtube channel but a piece of advice that is meant to last.
I really don't know how to do the second excercise. Not only is it way too damn fast for me to figure out what notes land on the beat most notes don't even land on the beat so the metronome is pretty much redundant. Please help me. Metronomes are the thing that keep me from being good at guitar.
Exercise number 2 is the extremely slow exercise. You're only playing one note per beat or click of the metronome. If that's too difficult, speed the metronome up from 20 beats a minute 40 and see if you can do that. If you can, gradually slow the metronome down. If there's any exercise you can't do at first, get in the habit of slowing it down (or the opposite in this case) until you can do it. You work at these things gradually and get better through the work of improving yourself step by step. No one arrives at anything complete.
Try listening to some recorded 4/4 music, tapping your foot on the 1 and 3 beat and clapping your hands halfway between each foot tap. Foot-clap-foot-clap. This will give you the feeling of the off-beat. Once you have that going, stop tapping your foot but keep the handclap off-beat going. Persevere until you can clap the off-beat to any 4/4 tune
You know, I much prefer a delay with long times. It's easy then to chunk in little beats LIKE 4 in, 4-off. The Digitech "RP" multi-effects give you 5 seconds delay, and used ones area all over - get the __50 or __55 one, 150, 155, 250, 255 etc. I don't work for Digitech, i just know those ones work. Like $50 used or something. There are probably others with long delays too. They're GREAT for figuring out harmony licks too, what works together. I started with one of those, uh, back in the night before that day that so many people are back in. Now I've got five loopers all hooked into each other in various rococo & loony ways. The nice men in the white coats even brought me a straightjacket!.
Glad you enjoyed it! That's G Melodic Minor. You can think of it as a G Major scale, but flat the 3rd (B) down to Bb. Everything else you leave the same.
QUESTION: Can you show some examples for how to use a metronome to improve tremolo technique on classical or flamenco guitar? This channel great. Just liked and subscribed and even shared!
If it makes you feel any better, I'm constantly looking for ways to improve my practicing. It seems like there's always new ways to get better. Asking other musicians how they practice can be hugely helpful.
Hi I just bought the app . ..But it mutes randomly. how do I set it to click measure four beats on and then a measure of silence like you said in your video ? Thanks
Hi there -- if you go to my blog, there's a screenshot of the app and how it should be set up. somuchsound.blogspot.com/2012/10/improve-your-groove-7-metronome-tricks.html -- make sure "random mute" is set to 0%.
Hey Sean awesome videos!! I was wondering if you have time could you do some videos on fretboard visualization/ patterns or connecting patterns and black holes within the patterns. I’m kind of stuck in this aspect and I’m getting different things from different teachers some used CAGED some use “ modal positions”. I would appreciate some insights and hopefully help out other guitarists. Thanks! 🙏
Great advices. I would like to ask you a question: to tap or not to tap the foot? Some players (Al Dimeola) says that if we tap the foot we can connect better to the pulse and it is mandatory, while other players (Oz Noy, Wayne Krantz) says that it is not good to tap. What is your opinion?
It's hard to argue with Dimeola, Oz or Wayne. I will say though that the goal is to internalize the time so solidly that you don't need a physical expression of the time (like tapping your foot) other than the notes you're playing. I've played with Wayne and watched him up close. He doesn't tap his foot, true, but his body does often move in time when he's playing. Oz does this less so from what I've seen. All three of them have impeccable time, I just think they've taken different paths to get there and it would be impossible to argue - tapping or not - that all three have incredibly solid internal time feel. It's obvious in the way they play.
What scale or pattern were you playing on that last exercise ? Thought it was the hotness ! I do hear the Krantz influence in your playing... dude is incredible !
Pro tip: when talking to someone who is awesome, you don't need to tell them that -- they've heard it at least once or twice before. Why not try learning something from them? But I digress.
I don't understand the 4 on 4 off. What are you supposed to do during the 4 silent beats? It seemed like you just kept improvising regardless of whether it was on or off. I know I have a really bad ear so I must be missing the obvious x) But I suppose what you did was end your phrase on the root note when the metronome went silent and then start again your next phrase also on a root note when it started clicking again? If so, what's the use for the silent beats? If not, can someone explain me please? :D
+Lucas13100 The point is that you start improvising when it tic's but when it stop clicking you should still feel the beat and land perfectly on the beginning of the tic when it starts again. If you feel that its too easy you can just make it 4 on 8 off, etc that will require you to feel the beat perfectly. As a rythm player i am going to do this a lot, can't wait to begin :D!
+Lucas13100 Heayy Metal For Life nailed it. The point is to keep improvising during the silent four beats and when the next down beat comes/the next audible click, you should be perfectly aligned with it. That's why I was emphasizing that downbeat, to show that I was keeping track of the time correctly, even while improvising and not having the metronome click out the beats for me. It's a way to test yourself to stay in time.
Very useful, thanks Sean! I might add the use of Presto Metronome, it's free and you can program it to accelerate from any bpm to any bpm, let's say you start from 60 and it progressively increases the BPM's up to 200, but in steps of 1, 2, 5 or even 20 BPM if you like :) you can program the training settings as you need, it's amazing.
8 years tutorials, tips & tricks and so on videos on youtube were so much useful, meaningful.Like you could really learn to do things and think for yourself and develp.
Someone PLEASE...all those comments are years old ...can some one PLEASE explain to me the harmony behind this dudes impro at 5:19 ?? I find it quite fancy and I wanna be able to make use of such harmonic diversity.
Hey there - the general idea in that section that I’m doing is playing in A minor, asserting that sound with chords and A minor pentatonic lines but then in key moments, typically leading up to the end of a 4-bar phrase, I’ll step outside of the A minor tonality and play dissonant/contrasting harmonies - Bb minor pentatonic lines, unrelated triads (Eb, Db etc). You can think of it as the last bar of a Blues when the V chord comes in. You’re creating dissonance that you then resolve on the beat, just in this case it’s (more often than not) non-key related dissonance. Hope that helps.
@@sose6255 3/4 is really a different animal. Putting the metronome on beat 2 or 3 is really good practice for it. Putting it on beat 1 only is good practice of course too because you're having to learn to subdivide in 3. But putting it on beat 2 or 3 brings up the level of difficulty a notch because you have to be really confident of where 1 is even though you're hearing beat 2 or 3 from the metronome.
Which exercise is this -- the fast one where the metronome only clicks on 2? In any case, any chance you have to slow things down, do it. Slower tempos help you to really internalize rhythm much more solidly than fast tempos do.
Timing. Something that sounds extremely easy but is far from it.
“Don’t practice what you know, practice what you don’t know”
"If you sound good when you're practicing, you're not getting any better."
@@SeanDriscollSoMuchSound i sound like shit when I'm practicing so thats a good thing I guess
But i would also say it is very important to incorporate what you don't know into what you know, blend it in, so it feels natural. He does that in this lesson. Great player.
Great lesson from Charles PuyoL :p
It's important to say this works for EVERY instrument, and I'm saying this as a drummer. Great exercises, thank you for this.
RIP to this great teacher..he passed away last week..🙏🏿
oh no
So sad. Just discovered him.
Turns out I’m not dead, never was. Though I did have a headache yesterday and that sucked.
@@SeanDriscollSoMuchSound great to hear...stay alive..youre a great teacher
@@SeanDriscollSoMuchSound bruh what was theat toxic comment, man I have been dying toget someone to explain to me why the fuck guitarists call modes positions, and then positions #'s for the fret. its so fucking confusing, from a piano playter.
Glad you're alive! this was a killer lesson. for scale sequencing.
This is fantastic! I am a pianist, but highly applicable to improvisation on the piano as well. Thanks for the ideas.
Holy moly. Great exercises! If anyone else is here 7 years later, I made some notes and an overview for myself.
Exercise 1: Swing 2 & 4 -- 0:40
-- Set metronome to half speed, and use clicks as 2nd & 4th beat.
-- Also use on pracicing new tunes.
Exercise 2: Slow Jam (Torture) -- 2:55
-- Set metronome to 20 bpm. One note in a scale per click.
Exercise 3: 4 On 4 Off -- 4:35
-- Set Time Guru to play 4 beats, then pause for 4 beats.
Exercise 4: One, One and Done -- [Next video]
-- Set up to hear first beat of the first bar, the first beat of the second, and silence for 2 bars.
Exercise 5: Syncopation Nation [Next video]
-- Set Time Guru to play the (2e&)a and the (4e)&. (see the video)
Exercise 6: The disorienter -- [Next video]
-- Variation of exercise 1. Set Time Guru to click beat 2, and try to keep time with this.
Exercise 7: Song form exercise -- [Next video]
-- Just the downbeats in a 12 bar blues. Set to click first beat in bar 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 9.
First 3 blog post:
somuchsound.blogspot.com/2012/10/improve-your-groove-7-metronome-tricks.html
Last 4 blog post:
somuchsound.blogspot.com/2013/02/improve-your-groove-part-2-7-metronome.html
Thanks for this !
dude, thanks, I think this is pretty hard, even though I play guitar for years
I get the metronome exercice at a slower pace, but when you practised on your tune at 2.30 i don't see how you / can t hear if beats 2 and 4 fall in the right notes. My ear cannot process both sounds at that speed.
Thanks
Probably some of the best timing exercises for building a strong foundation in timing and rhythm I’ve seen on UA-cam
I grabbed the guitar and thought "Easy shit!". 2 minutes later I'm still trying to find out the scale he played at the beginning
Melodic minor scale. Play any major scale but flat the 3rd step. Technically, you're only supposed to play it this way ascending and then natural minor descending (3rd, 6th, 7th are flatted) but everybody breaks this textbook rule.
Listening to my uncle Melvin Ragin aka Wah Wah Watson! His timing was unreal on countless hit records!!! RIP Wah Wah!!!!!!!!
Thanks man. I do have an Adam Rogers transcription in the can. That will probably be out in a couple weeks after I figure out the best way to teach what it is he's doing.
Hey Sean, do you subdivide even when you're improvising? Or do you kind of just feel the time? Thanks and there's some wonderful tips in this video!
Thanks Ellis. I don't have a straight answer as it's kind of yes and no. I'm not constantly subdividing, I think mostly my attention is on the specific tempo or maybe the beat pattern of a song. If it's a very slow tempo, maybe something under 60bpm, then I'd say yes I'm probably feeling at least 8th note subdivisions.
God I love that les Paul my friend it's so beautiful
I got the sudden urge to eat some Ramen Noddles.
lol
We had a nickname for the chatterbox Italian we worked with,.... Noodles. I can not even remember his real name. Lol funny.
John Hartman ohhhmygoddd wtf!????? How is this possible.
Didn't even spell noodles right ya idjit
wow.... ..really cool harmonies when u were improvising
"4 on 4 off" is a good start, but 4 on 8 off or even 4 on 16 off is even better!
...or even 32 off, or even something where you've gone the whole day off musical meditation style then just come back on time - you could quit metronome practise after that for good.
4 on day off is the way to go
He Sean, great work, thanks! Checkt this Rhythm podcast about On-Beat & Off-Beat & Syncopation. Let me now what you think:
ua-cam.com/video/m98BIl_W7lE/v-deo.html
I study with this method From several years, in this video there are only basical notions. (I play double bass. When i try to Say about this with musicians of My country, they look me like an alien!!
Lot's more coming!
metronomics is the greatest metronome app ever!! can sequence and layer the most improbable rhythms, kind of like a Jim Black in a box!
Great exercises, I've also trained to put the metronome on the second or third sixteenth note of each beat, really hard!
+Djezzbus That is really, really hard. I haven't shedded that hard, just practiced it a bit and it's a killer.
Nice Gibby!
Ornette On Tenor!
+LEX TAYLOR Good eye.
as a serious student of percussion I must say he killed that 20 bpm exercise, every note was right on point! It's not that easy (especially to lock in right away without letting such a slow tempo sink in to the mind / body for a while)
This is awesome. I love the second example. I'll be using this soon.
Ben Monder is such a great reference, seen him many times and he's just unreal!
Excellent lesson. I see you only have 9 videos on your UA-cam channel? I think it's Pretty amazing you have 3600 subscribers. Maybe you can make some more vids and get to 100K subscribers?!
Really kind of you to say, and I'm working on more videos. The thing is, I'm a professional freelance musician and make no money from these videos so they're not at the top of my list of things to do, though I really enjoy doing them. In a perfect world I'd put out one once a month but it just comes down to time... but I'm working on it. Thanks again.
not quite my tempo
Not quite the point...!
The Groove ain't everything but, everything ain't nothing without a groove . . .
You gotta gotta gotta . . . Git yor bone . . . in the ZONE . . . !
All the entry's from Dictionary.com Thesaurus, without the Antonym's. With the one exception of the very last listing. and,
Think perhaps you are on the wrong site. . .?
I said Thesaurus. But never mind...
Have a great day whatever your proclivities.
It's the 1.00 Steve Clayton acetal rounded triangle pick. I endorse Steve Clayton picks -- full disclosure.
HI, im realy trying to make time guru to make the click on the one difrrent than the other three clicks do you have any idea?
Feeling the subdivisions is really key to sight reading tricky rhythms, too.
Being an amateur drummer also helps time feel
Fantastic yes, altough I wouldnt try to play scales, I would use the scale as the framework and play music inside it.
Hey Josh-- for the first 2 & 4 exercise I'm using a metronome on my computer called Metronome which you can download for free. The other two metronomes I use are on my iPhone, one called TimeGuru for the last exercise and one called Tempo. Links to all of them are on my somuchsound.blogspot site.
Excellent lesson, great playing, plus you make all the cool faces a guitar player should make!
can u please do a basic meshuggah type riff using metronome....please
Hey Sean, what metronome are using? I am always on the lookout for good sounding metronome and that one sounds fine! I look forward to part II. Cheers -Josh
Guy has great left hand technique!
Groove makes even the simpelest of melodies amazing, liking all the lessons.
These are all great exercises. Thanks for the post. I'm always looking for & trying to come up with my own "metronome games." To add a twist to metronome on 2 & 4: try to put (hear) the clicks on the "& of 1" and the "& of 3." This is an extremely difficult exercise I got from a drummer. It's hard enough to just hear it, it's a whole other difficulty level to actually play something along to the click like this. You can also do something similar in time feel 3/4. I learned this from a guitarist: place click on 1 and the "& of 2" (you should be feeling the dotted quarter note pulse). And another twist on that exercise, place the click on the offbeat of anyone of those 3 beats--I'm currently working on "& of 1." Metronome needs to be set at a slow pulse. It's extremely difficult, but it will definitely improve your time-feel & groove.
This is great stuff. Thanks for putting these out there too!
Ooooh Moose the Mooche, I had to play that for a final in Jazz Improv... what a beast of a tune.
Every so often you stumble on a video that's not part of a weekly "x things to do" that's part of a revenue driving youtube channel but a piece of advice that is meant to last.
That's super kind of you to say Dieter, I appreciate it!
here is a good metronome to practice with:
ua-cam.com/video/huBuhsfnfQU/v-deo.html
Thank's for tips,You looks like a scott Henderson!
Sean you kick major ass man.
I figured it out. K. I .S .S . Instead of counting to four just count 1 four times or as many as you want.
This really helped me to stay on time and drop records on the one beat! Thank you so much!
Both vids are solid. Simple ways to make metronome training more engaging, more challenging. Thanks.
Thanks for checking them out!
this is so good, hope you're still making videos!
So rare to hear jazz played on a Les Paul. Les would be happy.
I cant believe you can play on the beat at 20 BPM thats pretty crazy! Gonna practice that HAHAHHAHA
At last someone shows how to practice with the metronome correctly.
Sean, deeply thxs !
Haha, Ben Monder, or Mind Bender as he sometimes is called. Played on David Bowies last album. Monster player. Crazy rhythic indipendence.
This lesson is gold. Thank you so much.
Easy is something different :D
Thanks Sonny. I'm a big fan of Sweden, I've been 4 times and love it there.
excellent metronome exercises, thank you for posting
Solo gigs w. Dr.Rythm 22A..
men, i been searching this info for like forever.thanks
I really don't know how to do the second excercise. Not only is it way too damn fast for me to figure out what notes land on the beat most notes don't even land on the beat so the metronome is pretty much redundant. Please help me. Metronomes are the thing that keep me from being good at guitar.
Exercise number 2 is the extremely slow exercise. You're only playing one note per beat or click of the metronome. If that's too difficult, speed the metronome up from 20 beats a minute 40 and see if you can do that. If you can, gradually slow the metronome down. If there's any exercise you can't do at first, get in the habit of slowing it down (or the opposite in this case) until you can do it. You work at these things gradually and get better through the work of improving yourself step by step. No one arrives at anything complete.
Try listening to some recorded 4/4 music, tapping your foot on the 1 and 3 beat and clapping your hands halfway between each foot tap. Foot-clap-foot-clap. This will give you the feeling of the off-beat. Once you have that going, stop tapping your foot but keep the handclap off-beat going. Persevere until you can clap the off-beat to any 4/4 tune
Exercise 2 is playing a tune with the metronome on beats 2 and 4
***** Then stop rubbing it in and try to be helpful for a change.
You know, I much prefer a delay with long times. It's easy then to chunk in little beats LIKE 4 in, 4-off. The Digitech "RP" multi-effects give you 5 seconds delay, and used ones area all over - get the __50 or __55 one, 150, 155, 250, 255 etc. I don't work for Digitech, i just know those ones work. Like $50 used or something. There are probably others with long delays too. They're GREAT for figuring out harmony licks too, what works together. I started with one of those, uh, back in the night before that day that so many people are back in. Now I've got five loopers all hooked into each other in various rococo & loony ways. The nice men in the white coats even brought me a straightjacket!.
Super cool - I don't recognize the scale(s) you used in the first example. Phrygian? Do you present these anywhere?
Glad you enjoyed it! That's G Melodic Minor. You can think of it as a G Major scale, but flat the 3rd (B) down to Bb. Everything else you leave the same.
more like a showoff than tips.
Are you related to Julie Driscoll?
QUESTION: Can you show some examples for how to use a metronome to improve tremolo technique on classical or flamenco guitar? This channel great. Just liked and subscribed and even shared!
Thanks!!!!!!!! Really appreciate this! And awesome playing btw!
That horrible feeling when you realise you just don't practice properly.
If it makes you feel any better, I'm constantly looking for ways to improve my practicing. It seems like there's always new ways to get better. Asking other musicians how they practice can be hugely helpful.
cool video! You should make more!
Hi I just bought the app . ..But it mutes randomly. how do I set it to click measure four beats on and then a measure of silence like you said in your video ? Thanks
Hi there -- if you go to my blog, there's a screenshot of the app and how it should be set up. somuchsound.blogspot.com/2012/10/improve-your-groove-7-metronome-tricks.html -- make sure "random mute" is set to 0%.
20 bpm ouch
It’s American Ian Moss!
Hey Sean awesome videos!! I was wondering if you have time could you do some videos on fretboard visualization/ patterns or connecting patterns and black holes within the patterns. I’m kind of stuck in this aspect and I’m getting different things from different teachers some used CAGED some use “ modal positions”. I would appreciate some insights and hopefully help out other guitarists. Thanks! 🙏
great lesson! very very useful! thanks...tasty playing too
GREAT playing! (Even your scales sound so musical!) :)
This is fantastic! thank you
Great advices. I would like to ask you a question: to tap or not to tap the foot? Some players (Al Dimeola) says that if we tap the foot we can connect better to the pulse and it is mandatory, while other players (Oz Noy, Wayne Krantz) says that it is not good to tap. What is your opinion?
It's hard to argue with Dimeola, Oz or Wayne. I will say though that the goal is to internalize the time so solidly that you don't need a physical expression of the time (like tapping your foot) other than the notes you're playing. I've played with Wayne and watched him up close. He doesn't tap his foot, true, but his body does often move in time when he's playing. Oz does this less so from what I've seen. All three of them have impeccable time, I just think they've taken different paths to get there and it would be impossible to argue - tapping or not - that all three have incredibly solid internal time feel. It's obvious in the way they play.
What scale or pattern were you playing on that last exercise ? Thought it was the hotness ! I do hear the Krantz influence in your playing... dude is incredible !
Thanks for the amazing, ingenious and insightful video Sean! Just ‘liked and subscribed’, now I have to get my guitar and practice!
Absolutely great wise video - should be in every student consciousness! Many thanks
Pro tip: when talking to someone who is awesome, you don't need to tell them that -- they've heard it at least once or twice before. Why not try learning something from them? But I digress.
that was good. I wish i.learned the right way. can't seem to go one song with effing up rhythm a few times
I don't understand the 4 on 4 off. What are you supposed to do during the 4 silent beats? It seemed like you just kept improvising regardless of whether it was on or off.
I know I have a really bad ear so I must be missing the obvious x)
But I suppose what you did was end your phrase on the root note when the metronome went silent and then start again your next phrase also on a root note when it started clicking again?
If so, what's the use for the silent beats?
If not, can someone explain me please? :D
+Lucas13100 The point is that you start improvising when it tic's but when it stop clicking you should still feel the beat and land perfectly on the beginning of the tic when it starts again. If you feel that its too easy you can just make it 4 on 8 off, etc that will require you to feel the beat perfectly. As a rythm player i am going to do this a lot, can't wait to begin :D!
+Lucas13100 Heayy Metal For Life nailed it. The point is to keep improvising during the silent four beats and when the next down beat comes/the next audible click, you should be perfectly aligned with it. That's why I was emphasizing that downbeat, to show that I was keeping track of the time correctly, even while improvising and not having the metronome click out the beats for me.
It's a way to test yourself to stay in time.
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Now the drum and bass players will love to play with me. Thanks dude!!!
your playing is impressive, I hope you are/get as successful as you can play.
Thank you! I was just looking for something like this since rhythm an groove are one of my weak sides.
Extremely helpful thx
Very useful, thanks Sean! I might add the use of Presto Metronome, it's free and you can program it to accelerate from any bpm to any bpm, let's say you start from 60 and it progressively increases the BPM's up to 200, but in steps of 1, 2, 5 or even 20 BPM if you like :) you can program the training settings as you need, it's amazing.
Wow great tricks! Thank you so much!
I will practice these with my metronome.
8 years tutorials, tips & tricks and so on videos on youtube were so much useful, meaningful.Like you could really learn to do things and think for yourself and develp.
Have you studied with Charlie banacos?
I took one lesson with him when I was in Boston but I saved all the material he gave me and still work on it from time to time.
hate when they talk more than play
Excellent lesson. How do I make swing 2&4 at time guru metronome?
I've always considered myself to be a good rythm/groove player, but this will surely make me even better at it. Thanks Sean!
I've only got a metrosexual gnome. Will that work?
Ah, like Emily Remler.
Someone PLEASE...all those comments are years old ...can some one PLEASE explain to me the harmony behind this dudes impro at 5:19 ?? I find it quite fancy and I wanna be able to make use of such harmonic diversity.
Hey there - the general idea in that section that I’m doing is playing in A minor, asserting that sound with chords and A minor pentatonic lines but then in key moments, typically leading up to the end of a 4-bar phrase, I’ll step outside of the A minor tonality and play dissonant/contrasting harmonies - Bb minor pentatonic lines, unrelated triads (Eb, Db etc). You can think of it as the last bar of a Blues when the V chord comes in. You’re creating dissonance that you then resolve on the beat, just in this case it’s (more often than not) non-key related dissonance. Hope that helps.
@@SeanDriscollSoMuchSound thanks man really appreciate it!! But how do you apply the 2&4 Metronom exercise to a 3/4 time signature ?
@@sose6255 3/4 is really a different animal. Putting the metronome on beat 2 or 3 is really good practice for it. Putting it on beat 1 only is good practice of course too because you're having to learn to subdivide in 3. But putting it on beat 2 or 3 brings up the level of difficulty a notch because you have to be really confident of where 1 is even though you're hearing beat 2 or 3 from the metronome.
cool man, thanks
Max Roach talked about mental subdivision of the beat 3:36
what is a trick to help me with the 2and 1 exrecise i always jump back to the beat on the one automatic
Which exercise is this -- the fast one where the metronome only clicks on 2? In any case, any chance you have to slow things down, do it. Slower tempos help you to really internalize rhythm much more solidly than fast tempos do.
Wonderfull played and great exercises, thank you!
Fabulous stuff.