Thanks for watching! If you want some free backing tracks (one of which I used in this video) you can grab them here: andrewclarkeguitar.com/p/slow-pop-pack
If you ever watch a good bass player play the guitar, you'll notice how different they play. Bass players, being an extension of the drummer, naturally play guitar as an extension of the drummer. It's fascinating!
I'm a bassist who views the bass as a pivot instrument. Most of the time it's following the drums, but if the drums are neither too tight (phil rudd) or too loose (keith moon), and there's a gap in the melody, feel free to dive into the melodic hole. Good bassists should be able to improvise given a key and a mode. If you're in a band and the main songwriter doesn't want you to occasionally take over lead duties, it's just not as fun. Be Stiff by Devo is one of my favorite "bass as it should be played" songs: Gerald Casale is doing the classic 12_4, except when the melody gets really busy, he gets busy with it.
@@LeBassiveOG Kick, tom, no snare is the basics. The responsibility of the bassist, to quote James Brown is "to give me the one., as in 1-2-3-4". I lay off the three if I can; if I can't, I walk over it, like I'll play two eighth notes over the three to deemphasize it. I dunno, it's sort of a matter of feel.
This is exactly what I do. I keep seeing educators teach different strumming patterns but always felt like there's no one pattern that fits all. Thanks for this, your videos are amazing, I subscribed immediately!
I think patterns are super neat as a mega beginner but they will really start to hinder your progress. It's best to learn about rhythms and time signatures later on.
@@junker154 yes! I've been so confused myself thinking "Is this the right pattern for a song". And even people generally expect you to copy the rhythm if you're covering a song but I think experimentation matters more.
This is why when people are used to "strumming patterns" I try to get them to count the patterns out loud to understand what beats they're strumming on. Then I ask what beats the drums in the same song play on. Then which of those beats are kick vs. snare. Great exercise to get people to break free of thinking in terms of strumming patterns and be able to play any song by feel instead.
My timing sucks, at least I can't play to a metronome for very long since my mind wanders. When my mind wanders it goes to where where the song feels to be. I like your comment.
Hey Andrew! Thank You for making this short but very Important & Effective insight "Lesson" on Rhythm or also on how to APROACH replicating a Drum-Kit Style on the Guitar + of course mentioning what´s absolutely important like (in my own personal opinion) the Timing you absolutely have to get down at some point as a growing Guitarist/ Guitar Player and Musician. No matter if on a Professional basis oder just as a Hobby for yourself. As long as it sounds Musical (that´s what I personally think there) you are definetily on the right way to become better in all sorts of rhytmic playing. Thats my experience from all moments of success and of course also from all failures or error-like attempts I´ve had since I started playing Guitar in March 2023! So yeah, just thank you for that point of View you focused on in this Video and I personally would absolutely love to see more content with similar topics, if you would make Videos about it :D Greetings & have a nice Day! ~Det
I play rhythm, but I'm also the singer so for me it is keeping it simple with strumming. I love to practice lead in my spare time but I'm years away for playing lead
I’ve always strummed the way you suggested but never made the connection between how I play and the drum pattern. When someone would ask how I figured out the strumming pattern I couldn’t really answer other than to say I just sort of feel it. Thanks for answering a question I didn’t know how to ask.
As a beginner/intermediate guitar player, but experienced drummer, I’ve always done this. In the noob areas of the interweb that I frequent people often ask "what’s the strumming pattern" and it’s always sounded like the wrong question to ask.
As a beginner I find a lot of value in your videos. Even if some of the lessons are more advanced than my skill level I can still apply something or take something away from them. Thank you! 🎸
I had the same issue of not completely understanding the lessons as a beginner but I came back to the videos after a year and the rest fell into place.
Listen to "Sunday Papers" by Joe Jackson to understand what he means by high hat and snare on guitar. A good example of this is on that song. It''s an old song but shows what he means.
@@claudiocruzat8777 Being too young definitely isn't the problem, believe me! In the 90s with the likes of Oasis it just became strumming distorted guitar, which is about the least imaginative playing imaginable. I lost interest in pop/rock music in the 90s because of that sort of thing. If you can suggest some good (by which I mean imaginative and interesting) 90s rhythm guitar then I'll happily go and listen. 🙂
Mad skills fella! …. (old guy advice) please run with whatever style you absolutely love, …. but just make sure it’s really, REALLY smart and sharp as f! …. go crush it and best of luck along with.
Great lesson, thank you so much. I've been working on this topic recently but your breakdown made things much clearer. New sub here. And even if that wasn't the case, the Baum Wingman in the corner already convinced me this is a player worth following ;0)
I think the same. Ever. Before specializing in being a good Guitar leader full of technique, we must explore and master the rhythm, according to the beat, so as not to be just a banal scout guitarist. Excelent vídeo and lesson. Bravo🖤👏👏👏👏🤘🤘🎼🎼
Just go listen to the band “her’s”… best guitar parts I’ve ever heard across all decades of music. Dudes were brilliant. And the lead singer/guitar player was actually firstly a drummer
Hey Andrew, just wanted to say thank you for your videos and content. I'm the rhythm guitarist in my band and I believe that rhythm is the most important ingredient in every song, so your videos are very very useful. Keep it up!
The example you play 1:18 is Father of a Sister of Thought of Pavement? I see nothing wrong with it, it's something that can have its role and function.
Nice lesson. I've been separating the low notes (E,A,D) from the high notes (g, b, e), with variations for awhile. Along with striking the root note before the full strum, IF it serves the song. I have never tried that muted practice, but I'll give it a go. Thanks
Andrew, you just gave me the greenlight. I’m learning guitar and have been struggling to keep the Strom pattern that some tutorials are teaching. My strumming is instinctively wanting to follow the drum pattern but I didn’t think I was right to do so it sounds better to me, it is more natural at least for me. Thanks for sharing great lesson.
I do this on the bass, even in cover songs, I just think it's best to the song, just play the bass like it was a dumm kit most of the times. And it just feels right and good to listening too.
this reminded me of a video where Dave Grohl explained how he wrote everlong, and he basically said he sees the guitar as if it were a drum kit, since he is a former drummer if you pay attention to everlong's intro, its exactly how you described
Ha! Have to show this to my first guitar teacher! Thanks for the video! I am an experienced percussionist/drummer. I started leajrning to play the guitar about 3 years ago. I was instructede in the regulrar UDUD strumming, but I always tended to play «dynamically» as you call it. That is what a drummer/percussioner «hears» 😊 But I was corrected. When I started to play guitar on stage, I saw that the audience reacted much more positively to drum-style-strumming. And it has also helped me learn finger-style and chord/melody arrangements later on, and to add arpeggios etc. into rythm guitar.
I’m about to reach 70 and still gigging professionally as a sideman.I’ve basically maintained a career out of being able to lock in with the drummer. I’ve always felt that was my strength that made up for the shortcomings in my playing.
if you could do more content like this, that'd be awesome. Might be your niche. More samples of how to hear and adapt to drum beats. With this video you were attacking a huge field. I'd even buy a course that teaches this stuff for real life. Nice share.
Thanks for this video. I've been a guitarist for 30 years, and although I can play rhythm very well, I've never heard it explained like this. Game-changer! 🤯
The game changes when you can hear the spaces between the core beat in any time signature much better than the usual cave-man routines, syncopation is where it's at instead and the ability to use the mute spect via the side of the strumming hand to alter the value itself of the chord's audible aspect, your emphasising the chording hand here, it's a combination of both hands operating in sync or deliberate syncopation or unity if desired or a combination in or out of sync as wished for with dynamic application, I've known for around 30 years there's a killer drummer percussionist sleeping in the strumming hand, arm AND wrist, it takes time and your OWN ear to activate it.....nice vid!
This is a great video for rythym players. All I've done for 35 years mostly is rhythm as I love it and never had much interest in lead parts. I never use strumming patterns intended to be used. In my opinion they are just there because something has to be and they majorly restrict style. But if you can feel the drums and hear the vocals you can do much more, and easily than whatever that stock pattern gives you.
Hey Andrew I can do some of this already, but being a drummer first I still have a problem muting some strings playing cleanly with distortion, I just can't seem to do it no matter what .Any ideas? Cheers and cool video!
Hi, Do i need to know all keys like the Music theory? I can know if i play a sus chord or 7 chord but i dont always know what key/ scale i am in, i also sometimes play the bass notes or Find it hard to prevent playing the bass chords since i play a mix between fingerstyle and rythm guitar, btw great lesson, but maybe adding what chord your playing or Tabs but really great clean sound
Dude you’re absolutely on it right hand is the key that’s where the feel comes from that’s where the person using the same chords as everyone else tells they’re own story
today i learned that despite having basically 0 knowledge of drumming and/or musical theory and only ever playing basic ass punk and grunge guitar, i play it like a drummer
Very interesting technique, sounds really good with drums, i started on drums when i was 14, so i could relate very easily.but should be very helpful to us all for rythum guitar keep up the good work
Love this! I used to be a drummer but now play acoustic guitar so I’ve been doing this type of thing all along it just came natural to me. I am going to subscribe and see what else you have available. Thanks
Thanks, good stuff. Also take some drum lessons. Play piano, guitar and bass. Avoid backing tracks. Use metronome on 2 and 4. Advanced , place metronome on last subdivision of the measure.
Let me save this dude some time. Go out and find the first ten years of Ventures albums. This is where rhythm guitar was invented. Don Wilson layed down rhythms not previously heard. He is the King!
Most guitarists have got a crappy tone and drown it in over application of effects and can't get into the strum or dynamic zone properly...it can become a dreadful lifelong bad habit and rob them of what's always been ready to hatch.
Another great video! I've personally stepped back from solo styles of practice to increase my rhythm playing or campfire/acoustic sing along stuff. One of my favorite techniques it palm muting bass notes and letting highs ring out, so this fit right in!
Hey man, keep at it with bar chords, they take a while to get right, but they give you such a great dynamic sound, then when you've got it, you can learn the CAGED system which is so so handy 🎉
Thanks for watching! If you want some free backing tracks (one of which I used in this video) you can grab them here: andrewclarkeguitar.com/p/slow-pop-pack
Thanks Andrew I needed it😊
If you ever watch a good bass player play the guitar, you'll notice how different they play. Bass players, being an extension of the drummer, naturally play guitar as an extension of the drummer. It's fascinating!
Idk how to think about it since I’m both a drummer and a guitarist
I'm a bassist who views the bass as a pivot instrument. Most of the time it's following the drums, but if the drums are neither too tight (phil rudd) or too loose (keith moon), and there's a gap in the melody, feel free to dive into the melodic hole.
Good bassists should be able to improvise given a key and a mode. If you're in a band and the main songwriter doesn't want you to occasionally take over lead duties, it's just not as fun. Be Stiff by Devo is one of my favorite "bass as it should be played" songs: Gerald Casale is doing the classic 12_4, except when the melody gets really busy, he gets busy with it.
@@LeBassiveOG Kick, tom, no snare is the basics. The responsibility of the bassist, to quote James Brown is "to give me the one., as in 1-2-3-4". I lay off the three if I can; if I can't, I walk over it, like I'll play two eighth notes over the three to deemphasize it. I dunno, it's sort of a matter of feel.
This is exactly what I do. I keep seeing educators teach different strumming patterns but always felt like there's no one pattern that fits all. Thanks for this, your videos are amazing, I subscribed immediately!
I think patterns are super neat as a mega beginner but they will really start to hinder your progress. It's best to learn about rhythms and time signatures later on.
@@junker154 yes! I've been so confused myself thinking "Is this the right pattern for a song". And even people generally expect you to copy the rhythm if you're covering a song but I think experimentation matters more.
Always nice to see you providing easy to understand step-by-step methods about difficult concepts! Then still some practice required... no magic!
I enjoyed this video. Dave Grohl talked about this, but haven’t seen a lesson on it. Thank you
Glad you liked it!
I was thinking of the same thing.
This was a great video and appreciate the new way to practice.
This is why when people are used to "strumming patterns" I try to get them to count the patterns out loud to understand what beats they're strumming on. Then I ask what beats the drums in the same song play on. Then which of those beats are kick vs. snare. Great exercise to get people to break free of thinking in terms of strumming patterns and be able to play any song by feel instead.
My timing sucks, at least I can't play to a metronome for very long since my mind wanders. When my mind wanders it goes to where where the song feels to be. I like your comment.
Hey Andrew! Thank You for making this short but very Important & Effective insight "Lesson" on Rhythm or also on how to APROACH replicating a Drum-Kit Style on the Guitar + of course mentioning what´s absolutely important like (in my own personal opinion) the Timing you absolutely have to get down at some point as a growing Guitarist/ Guitar Player and Musician. No matter if on a Professional basis oder just as a Hobby for yourself. As long as it sounds Musical (that´s what I personally think there) you are definetily on the right way to become better in all sorts of rhytmic playing. Thats my experience from all moments of success and of course also from all failures or error-like attempts I´ve had since I started playing Guitar in March 2023!
So yeah, just thank you for that point of View you focused on in this Video and I personally would absolutely love to see more content with similar topics, if you would make Videos about it :D
Greetings & have a nice Day!
~Det
You're totally right! I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I'll definitely be making more videos on topics like this in the future. Cheers!
I play rhythm, but I'm also the singer so for me it is keeping it simple with strumming. I love to practice lead in my spare time but I'm years away for playing lead
Great lesson thanks so much 🎉
My pleasure!
Outstanding thanks you’re the first lesson I’ve ever seen regarding rhythm tips
Thanks for watching!
I’ve always strummed the way you suggested but never made the connection between how I play and the drum pattern. When someone would ask how I figured out the strumming pattern I couldn’t really answer other than to say I just sort of feel it. Thanks for answering a question I didn’t know how to ask.
Thank you Andrew !
My pleasure!
The best rhythm guitarist I’ve listened to is Johnny Marr, a master of this style
Jangle pop overall I think has much better rhythm playing than any other type of music. Marr is a master of jangle playing.
Greatest rhythm guitarist of all time is the late Malcolm Young from AC/DC. RIP Malcolm 🎸
@@Michael-oy3pz the first rhythm guitarist that comes to mind is izzy from guns n roses and i think he blows malcolm out of the water
I have been working on strumming and timing a lot in my guitar playing. This will be fun to add to my practice routine.
Great lesson 👍
Thanks for watching!
Thank you, great way to approach rhythm
As a beginner/intermediate guitar player, but experienced drummer, I’ve always done this. In the noob areas of the interweb that I frequent people often ask "what’s the strumming pattern" and it’s always sounded like the wrong question to ask.
I mean, it's a drumming pattern at this point but it's still a pattern to be honest
Awesome video!!
Thanks!
Excellent thanks.
No worries!
As a beginner I find a lot of value in your videos. Even if some of the lessons are more advanced than my skill level I can still apply something or take something away from them. Thank you! 🎸
I had the same issue of not completely understanding the lessons as a beginner but I came back to the videos after a year and the rest fell into place.
That's great to hear!
Ditto
Listen to "Sunday Papers" by Joe Jackson to understand what he means by high hat and snare on guitar. A good example of this is on that song. It''s an old song but shows what he means.
Wow joe jackson, I didn’t think to many people still alive that’s ever heard of him
love Joe Jackson and his music 😊
I wish there was more out there about rhythm-playing. It's 99% about soloing, which is at most 5% of what most guitarists do.
In the 90s it was all rythm guitar. Maybe you are too young. 😂 IT happened, believe me.
@@claudiocruzat8777 Being too young definitely isn't the problem, believe me! In the 90s with the likes of Oasis it just became strumming distorted guitar, which is about the least imaginative playing imaginable. I lost interest in pop/rock music in the 90s because of that sort of thing. If you can suggest some good (by which I mean imaginative and interesting) 90s rhythm guitar then I'll happily go and listen. 🙂
Mad skills fella! …. (old guy advice) please run with whatever style you absolutely love, …. but just make sure it’s really, REALLY smart and sharp as f!
…. go crush it and best of luck along with.
Brilliant!
loved ti, great tip~~!
Great vid
Great rhythm means you will meet more musicians that want to play with you.
in my youth i played drums . months ago I started to try guitar . i always wondered why I don't get out the drums of my guitar !😄👍🏼thank you !
Great lesson, thank you so much. I've been working on this topic recently but your breakdown made things much clearer. New sub here. And even if that wasn't the case, the Baum Wingman in the corner already convinced me this is a player worth following ;0)
Appreciate that! Yes, the Wingman is an awesome guitar :)
Guitar is an any and all can be done with music instrument. ❤🎸 🤘🏼
This is Patrick Stump's style - he originally auditioned for FOB as a drummer
I think the same. Ever. Before specializing in being a good Guitar leader full of technique, we must explore and master the rhythm, according to the beat, so as not to be just a banal scout guitarist.
Excelent vídeo and lesson.
Bravo🖤👏👏👏👏🤘🤘🎼🎼
Hey, sorry for quitting the video at the beginning, it's still way too advanced for me
Just go listen to the band “her’s”… best guitar parts I’ve ever heard across all decades of music. Dudes were brilliant. And the lead singer/guitar player was actually firstly a drummer
I'm amazed by how many great musicians, started off as drummers....
Hey Andrew, just wanted to say thank you for your videos and content. I'm the rhythm guitarist in my band and I believe that rhythm is the most important ingredient in every song, so your videos are very very useful. Keep it up!
The example you play 1:18 is Father of a Sister of Thought of Pavement? I see nothing wrong with it, it's something that can have its role and function.
Nice lesson. I've been separating the low notes (E,A,D) from the high notes (g, b, e), with variations for awhile. Along with striking the root note before the full strum, IF it serves the song.
I have never tried that muted practice, but I'll give it a go. Thanks
Nice! Yeah, practicing with the muted strum is definitely a fun way to work on it.
Great vid, Andrew! First step for me will be setting up similar tone.
Andrew, you just gave me the greenlight. I’m learning guitar and have been struggling to keep the Strom pattern that some tutorials are teaching. My strumming is instinctively wanting to follow the drum pattern but I didn’t think I was right to do so it sounds better to me, it is more natural at least for me. Thanks for sharing great lesson.
Can you do a vid on arpeggios for all the modes in a key
I do this on the bass, even in cover songs, I just think it's best to the song, just play the bass like it was a dumm kit most of the times. And it just feels right and good to listening too.
Great tips!! Cheers Andrew! We play a few different styles in my band, and it’s always great to lock in with the drummer.
Awesome. Thanks for watching!
this reminded me of a video where Dave Grohl explained how he wrote everlong, and he basically said he sees the guitar as if it were a drum kit, since he is a former drummer
if you pay attention to everlong's intro, its exactly how you described
Totally!
Ha! Have to show this to my first guitar teacher! Thanks for the video!
I am an experienced percussionist/drummer. I started leajrning to play the guitar about 3 years ago. I was instructede in the regulrar UDUD strumming, but I always tended to play «dynamically» as you call it. That is what a drummer/percussioner «hears» 😊 But I was corrected. When I started to play guitar on stage, I saw that the audience reacted much more positively to drum-style-strumming. And it has also helped me learn finger-style and chord/melody arrangements later on, and to add arpeggios etc. into rythm guitar.
How to play like a great rhythm guitarist??? Listen and watch Malcom Young, His older brother George knew all the chords...
This is such a great way to approach rhythm guitar. As a drummer first, it has translated VERY well into me being a proficient guitar player quickly.
I’m about to reach 70 and still gigging professionally as a sideman.I’ve basically maintained a career out of being able to lock in with the drummer. I’ve always felt that was my strength that made up for the shortcomings in my playing.
if you could do more content like this, that'd be awesome. Might be your niche. More samples of how to hear and adapt to drum beats. With this video you were attacking a huge field. I'd even buy a course that teaches this stuff for real life. Nice share.
Thanks for this video. I've been a guitarist for 30 years, and although I can play rhythm very well, I've never heard it explained like this. Game-changer! 🤯
Excellent tutorial! I'm a hobbyist drummer/piano/guitar guy and really appreciate the straight forward lesson on dynamics. Thank you. Just subscribed.
The game changes when you can hear the spaces between the core beat in any time signature much better than the usual cave-man routines, syncopation is where it's at instead and the ability to use the mute spect via the side of the strumming hand to alter the value itself of the chord's audible aspect, your emphasising the chording hand here, it's a combination of both hands operating in sync or deliberate syncopation or unity if desired or a combination in or out of sync as wished for with dynamic application, I've known for around 30 years there's a killer drummer percussionist sleeping in the strumming hand, arm AND wrist, it takes time and your OWN ear to activate it.....nice vid!
This is a great video for rythym players. All I've done for 35 years mostly is rhythm as I love it and never had much interest in lead parts. I never use strumming patterns intended to be used. In my opinion they are just there because something has to be and they majorly restrict style. But if you can feel the drums and hear the vocals you can do much more, and easily than whatever that stock pattern gives you.
Hey Andrew I can do some of this already, but being a drummer first I still have a problem muting some strings playing cleanly with distortion, I just can't seem to do it no matter what .Any ideas? Cheers and cool video!
Hi, Do i need to know all keys like the Music theory? I can know if i play a sus chord or 7 chord but i dont always know what key/ scale i am in, i also sometimes play the bass notes or Find it hard to prevent playing the bass chords since i play a mix between fingerstyle and rythm guitar, btw great lesson, but maybe adding what chord your playing or Tabs but really great clean sound
First thing I've learned when I first picked the guitar. Rythem Rythem Rythem.
Fantastic information Thanks Andrew 👍
My pleasure!
As a drummer i play the guitar like that subconsciously.
Dude you’re absolutely on it right hand is the key that’s where the feel comes from that’s where the person using the same chords as everyone else tells they’re own story
1 and 2 and 3 and 4 ♾️ upstrums thumb rakes boom chuck mutes chord squeezes chord outlines scales
As a drummer... This is interesting!
E=bass
A=floor Tom
D=low tom
G=high tom
B=snare
e=hats
As a drummer learning to be better at guitar, this video is extremely helpful. Thank you.
You're welcome!
Thank you so much, you deserve a million subs!!!
Glad you liked it :)
I love it! Thank you!
great tips
today i learned that despite having basically 0 knowledge of drumming and/or musical theory and only ever playing basic ass punk and grunge guitar, i play it like a drummer
I saw the thumbnail and immediately knew this would be a good video
You are an excellent teacher. Thank you.
Thank you so much :)
Very interesting technique, sounds really good with drums, i started on drums when i was 14, so i could relate very easily.but should be very helpful to us all for rythum guitar keep up the good work
Thanks for watching!
Anyone wanting to see a great rhythm guitarist should look at Kirk Fletcher,"A master of rhythm.
This video was a hidden gem, thanks!
Thanks for watching!!
That was truly helpful.
very interesting, thanks a lot Andrew thanks a lot
Thanks for watching!
Love this! I used to be a drummer but now play acoustic guitar so I’ve been doing this type of thing all along it just came natural to me. I am going to subscribe and see what else you have available. Thanks
Appreciate that 🙏
Thanks for the useful video.
Great tips…thanks!
You're welcome!
Not for James Hetfeild
James Hetfield: I'm a drummer but on guitar
Bro you kind of look like you could be MinuteTech's brother lol
Excellent rhythm guitar lesson
I really struggle with rhythm playing. These are great ideas. Thanks.
You're welcome!
Strumming patterns are great for beginners. I teach them.
Andrew, that was really well done. Excellent video for all level of players.
Much appreciated!
That's how Dave ghrol says he plays
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Thanks, good stuff. Also take some drum lessons. Play piano, guitar and bass.
Avoid backing tracks.
Use metronome on 2 and 4. Advanced , place metronome on last subdivision of the measure.
Thank you
You're welcome!
Excellent.... cheers from Canada...
Let me save this dude some time. Go out and find the first ten years of Ventures albums. This is where rhythm guitar was invented. Don Wilson layed down rhythms not previously heard. He is the King!
Most guitarists have got a crappy tone and drown it in over application of effects and can't get into the strum or dynamic zone properly...it can become a dreadful lifelong bad habit and rob them of what's always been ready to hatch.
Dave Grohl basically.
the james hetfield classical
Beautiful guitar
Another great video! I've personally stepped back from solo styles of practice to increase my rhythm playing or campfire/acoustic sing along stuff. One of my favorite techniques it palm muting bass notes and letting highs ring out, so this fit right in!
thanks Paul Klein
Excellent! Subscribed! 👍
Thanks and welcome!
can you make a video on chord progression with a capo cause some of us still struggle with bar chords
Hey man, keep at it with bar chords, they take a while to get right, but they give you such a great dynamic sound, then when you've got it, you can learn the CAGED system which is so so handy 🎉
Good stuff!
Thanks!
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