Re: Timing aids?

On Mar 5, 9:36 pm, "DougA" <do...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have most chords down and now need to work on my timing. I have tried a
metronome but the beeps throw me off. My instructor has a Fender GDEC and
seems it to be the cat's meow.

Is there anything else I can try or use?

Thanks

Slow down. Way down if you have to.

You can also practice with the metronome without changing chords. Set
the metronome at a slow pace, say 80 bpm. Turn it on and start
counting along with it, one and two and three and four and one and two
and etc etc. Then start taping your foot along with the beat, down and
up and down and up and down and up, once you get that going you can
form a chord and start strumming along with the counting and the
tapping, strumming down on the one and the down tap, then up on the
and and the "up tap" and on and on. Don't worry about changing chords,
just sit there and keep strumming until you feel like a machine with
the counting and the tapping and the strumming all in sync.

Do that for a little bit every day (change the BPM a little every day
too) and your timing will get better.
.

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