Guitar Aerobics

Inspector #20 said:
Awesome...

The thing jamming along to cover songs teaches you timing.

Many can learn the mechanics of the guitar, but fail to work on timing.

Playing along to a recording teaches you the art of precise timing, so when you get out to the club, you can deal with the drunken drummer speeding up and nobody notices the change because you have learned to "hear the train a comin."
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Oh yeah friend, you are correct! You've heard me too? LOL! And when I sit down to record in the DAW, this becomes readily apparent, particularly when I try to lay down a bass track. If I could be a SuperHero, I would have super duper timing, and call myself Captain Quantize LOL -

I do wonder if playing to my own poorly rhythmic looper tracks could be locking in or accentuating my bad rhythm tendencies/capabilities.
I do do some backing track work. At least you don't have to stop while the person who thinks they are very sexy shouts out some bad poetry for a while.

But, this is just for you @Jethro Rocker , so keep it under your hat The truth of it all is I am currently working for Premier Moe on a Top Secret new randomly polyrhythmic music genre he wants to call "Saska." It will never be used for general enjoyment, or a coming wave, sadly. The intended use is as a mild form of punishment which he hopes will be utilized in prisons, for inter-provincial warfare & counter-terrorism measures, and also to annoy the Trudeau and his evil minions.
 
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Inspector #20 said:
Awesome...

The thing jamming along to cover songs teaches you timing.

Many can learn the mechanics of the guitar, but fail to work on timing.

Playing along to a recording teaches you the art of precise timing, so when you get out to the club, you can deal with the drunken drummer speeding up and nobody notices the change because you have learned to "hear the train a comin."
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Well, it’s not ALWAYS the drummer :rolf:

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Session 5 said:
I always learn a song i like from one of the free online lessons teachers O nce I have the song down, I buy from my site that has the songs . Then upload into my MP3 player and play along with the band. Its awesome!
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Recently I loaded an MP4 from iTunes into Reaper. Then slowed it down a couple clicks so I could find my notes. Also allows me to play along with… that was pretty helpful.
 
So far.
I went to the site will all the audio files.
You have 2 options.
You can log into the site by creating an account and use the files there. There is an audio tool they offer so you can loop or slow the exercise down.
Or you can down load all the files.

I downloaded all the exercises and backing tracks.
I can now plug them into Reaper.
And play along through my headset or monitors.

My hand is feeling a little better. But still stiff.
Maybe in another couple of weeks I might be able to attempt to play.
 
Update.
After carefully going through some of the early lessons.

The book is a little misleading.
It says beginner to expert.
But it should say novice.

Beginner to me means fresh out of the box, never touched a guitar before.

The very first lessons assumes you already know alternate picking, fretting, basic musical alphabet, basic scales, musical notation or how to read tabs, tempo, and how to count note divisions. (Quarter notes, eighth notes, etc…)
 
As of today, my hand and wrist are feeling much better. I tried playing last weekend and I was fairly ok. I am going to start these exercises on Monday. The first couple of weeks look really easy, I should be able to handle them.
I doubt there will be much to report until I get to later exercises.
 
I started the program on Monday and did yesterday’s exercise.

There is a reason they advise you to skip the first few weeks if you are an intermediate or better player.

I can see how this can help a true beginner.
Each exercise has 8 rhythm tracks each track has increasing tempo and each track last long enough to do the exercise 10 times.

First lesson works on alt picking, timing, and synchronization of your left and right hand.

Second lesson works on accuracy with a string skipping exercise.

As simple as they are after this many weeks of not playing, I can feel it in my fingers this morning.

I am going to do my best to do this everyday for a year.
 
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