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Video Lesson

B. P. M.

Making friends with the metronome is very important because it will help you develop your sense of rhythm and keep your tempo consistent. If you practice with one, you will find that it helps you even when there is not one going. It will help you develop your "inner metronome". ;)

It's REALLY important that you can hear it clearly, so use headphones if you can't hear it very well, or leave it resting on top of your guitar where it is closer to your ear!

I recommend getting a digital metronome like the Korg MA-30 that I use for the video. I like "old skool" stuff, but the old "tick-tock" metronomes are limited in the tempos you can choose from and I think it is a very good idea to have one that can go at every tempo.

Remember that BPM means Beats Per Minute. 60bpm will be one click every second.

A very useful feature on some metronomes (like the Korg one) is the accents. For most of this course you will be playing in 4:4 time, so set the beat to 4, and that way it will accent beat the first beat of each bar. Good for making sure you put in the right numbers of beats in each bar!

 

Now we are going to check out how to do amazing technical fast rock guitar, a variation of finger tapping in BC-126 • Foot Tapping, just joking. We're just going to be tapping out feet ;) wey hey....

 

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