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Nurture your inner metronome

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Here’s a wise guitar blog post from a lifelong guitar player on the need to learn to keep time internally.

“. . . guitar players need a platform that is in a public place to express themselves while they are developing their craft.

What you’ll notice if you look carefully at street musicians if they are soloists, they may or may not have the ability to keep time. As a rule, I prefer music to be in time, but as a soloist it is possible to take liberties with the beat; you can’t do this with other musicians, it’s the glue that holds it together. What I have also noticed is that if a guitarist is self taught and rarely played with other musicians they could easily fall into the trap of not knowing how to play in time at all. This in the long term will work against them. As you mature as a musician, you find yourself wanting to work with other musicians that will enhance your sound.

What I recommend is if you have been working alone for a long time, it’s a good idea to get hold of some sort of drum machine, ‘musical sounding’ audo files for the computer, assuming you are computer literate or some type of backing tracks and work with them for a while, these can help you develop a natural rhythm.

Every now and then, I get the opportunity to work with different people, some have tremendoes voices or other great skills but often it’s their timing that lets them down. You timing should get to the point where you can stop playing for a few bars and then automatically come in on time at the precise place.”

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