Rhythm training

[Laffis]

This will help you get a good timing:

1. Play along with your favourite tunes on CD
2. Play along with a metronome
3. Play along with your band or other musicians
4. Record yourself playing and listen carefully afterwards

It's very important to always listen to the other musicians while you play and all the time try to figure out what you should play and how you should play it to make the band sound as good as possible.

Good luck!

 

[Grgzilla]

one tip if you play in a band, when the bass drum is hit, you pluck

If only it were that simple.

 

[Fritz12]

one tip if you play in a band, when the bass drum is hit, you pluck

If only it were that simple.

Particularly when your drummer is a double-bass monster who only operates in fluid sixteenth notes and above :lol:

 

[saxonbass]

one tip if you play in a band, when the bass drum is hit, you pluck

If only it were that simple.

Particularly when your drummer is a double-bass monster who only operates in fluid sixteenth notes and above :lol:

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[IncX]

one tip if you play in a band, when the bass drum is hit, you pluck

If only it were that simple.

Particularly when your drummer is a double-bass monster who only operates in fluid sixteenth notes and above :lol:

i pretty much am not good with smooth and groovy bass lines... BUT, playing with a double bass monster drummer, now thats where im confident *lol*

sadly... i have yet to find a drummer like that.

 

[bassoctopus]

I've been going with this for 20 minutes every night for about two weeks now, and it's really paying dividends with my playing.

 

[thndrstk6]

Hello,
Anyone know any good resources for getting into rhythms and timing?

Listen to Meshuggah.

 

[sethsbase]

There's a lot of useful info being presented here, but I would offer that each playing situation needs to be looked at (listened to?) with an eye (ear?) for real-world application.

First off, playing with a record is WAY different than playing in a live setting. Not only will you have a different judgement about what sounds good depending on whether or not you're playing to a track or a human being, but so will those LISTENING. We listen very differently to records than we do to live performances (but that's a topic for a whole different post...) And playing with a click is a different planet than playing with a drummer.

I would definitely say that playing with a click will help improve your sense of time.

I would ALSO say that playing with a drummer will help improve your sense of time...

...but I wouldn't necessarily say that playing with a click will help you learn to play with a drummer.

...and I CERTAINLY wouldn't say that playing with a drummer will help you learn to play with a click!

Follow me?

 

[boebl]

Maybe this helps you a bit:


It's a review of the Markus Setzer Workshop I went to last year.
A big part of it is rythmics - I tried to sum it up a bit, but it's only a small extract. It really helps you to improve your timing stuff a lot.

 

[thndrstk6]

Thanks a lot! Maybe it should be called the "Leviathan" then.

 

[Kris]

Hey Seth, do you have any tips on practicing changing meters or metric modulation? I just learnt a groove in 15/8 that modulates to a lot of different meters and it's damn hard to play the same groove over different meters! Are there any metronomes that can do anything like that?