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Read MoreVideo Lesson: Improving Your Timing & Accuracy
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Read MoreChord Tone Improvisation – The Gateway to Musical Connections
Hi, wanted to tell you about one of our courses at ElectricCampfire.com It’s called ‘Chord Tone Improvisation’, and it’s a video based course about musical…
Read MoreHow To Improve Your Soloing
TODAY I’m going to improve your soloing. Plain and simple. In the next 10 minutes. You’re going to find out if you can play a good idea. You’ll…
Read MorePlay In Time, All The Time
Play in time – All the time. And that means exactly that. You can write it out in ALL CAPS, or add ‘loser’ to the…
Read MoreNine over Six
Here’s a polyrhythm of 9 over 6, or crotchet triplets in 3/4. Try singing Someday My Prince Will Come whilst tapping the polyrhythm somehow. Once…
Read MoreGroups of Fives In 7/8
Here’s a classic 5s rhythmic lick, but in 7/8. The second line is the same as the first but it’s just a different way of…
Read MoreDecorating Polyrhythms
A bar full of 16th notes in 3/4 can be grouped two ways: Three groups of four Four groups of three This post deals with…
Read MoreCount Yourself In
Do you have problems with timing? Count yourself in. Usually the people that have issues with rhythm, timing and so on, just launch into playing…
Read MorePolyrhythm exercise
Here’s a little exercise with triplets and eighth-notes. The idea is to play this polyrhythm of 3 over 2, and 2 over 3, but I…
Read MoreMoving Rhythmic Values
This is a sort of rhythmic transposition that uses the relational values between rhythmic events which are then shifted to another rhythmic framework. If you…
Read MorePhrasing Arc
In this diagram from A to C is 4 bars long. B is bar 3 – the midpoint. I feel it as an arc because…
Read MoreRhythmic Possibilities: Groups of 5/Quintuplets
The diagram shows all the possible rhythms within one beat using groups of 5. The noteheads are meant to be played/clapped, and the sticks without…
Read MoreRhythmic Possibilities: 16th-notes
The diagram shows all the possible rhythms within one beat using 16th-notes. The noteheads are meant to be played/clapped, and the sticks without heads…
Read MoreRhythmic Possibilities: Triplets
This is a little exercise you can do with triplets. The diagram above shows all the possible rhythms within one beat using triplets. You can…
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