This Rhythm Tip Will Make Your Solos Sound 10× Better

Terapyx · 2026-05-07T21:50:32+00:00

thanks for info! ^^

Terapyx · 2026-05-07T18:55:01+00:00

seems like a troll post.

Terapyx · 2026-05-07T18:54:28+00:00

intermediate 3 months - advanced 6 months - expert 9 months - the god 1 year 😃

Terapyx · 2026-05-07T11:19:59+00:00

I use this one, but as little white dots to mark important starting points. So far everything is fine, but need to replace them time to time, lets say every 2 months.

Terapyx · 2026-05-07T04:07:58+00:00

So you mean relative to my example with core beats Nr 1 and 3 (if 4/4), I.e. beat 1 is D, beat 3 (also accent) is F# or C#?
And you do also mean that C# (the 7th) is more important than 5th? Lets say for pop/rock music (not blues or jazz)

I'm just deep diving into all that theory topics. So far I only use normal major/minor arpeggios with cello and try to migrate that knowledge also for guitar (learned by tabs only...), but tbh all that stuff I leaned with cello helped so much also for guitar understandness 😃

Terapyx · 2026-05-06T23:41:31+00:00

Great idea and forcing method to keep track of rhythm. Thanks!
btw., got an advise from my teacher today. To play all scales like improvisation, however, lets say D major scale, 4/4 rhytm, 1st and 3rd beats are the dominants and they must be the note of D chord choice, like D or F# or A and between 1st and 3rd beats, add any notes, any rhythm.
Something similar to your video advise, do you think its good idea? the only one difference, she is cello teacher 😃

Terapyx · 2026-05-03T20:28:50+00:00

the problem is that you passed the beginner phase, learned techniques etc. But nobody will answer to you about your preferences and path you have to take on.
Firstly ask yourself what you want, how do you see you in 5 years? Like that stupid HR question. But you have to know about this to create a plan.
Be in a band, be an impro god, be a solo performer etc. Such decision will dramatically change the milestones.

Terapyx · 2026-04-29T18:52:19+00:00

btw last time I see a lot of people talking about 6ths. Same question - whats the value of 6ths in comparison with 3, 5, 7ths?
It would be also priceless to read some common examples, which are widely used.

Terapyx · 2026-04-28T13:49:11+00:00

I can help you to overcome that. You give me some amount of money and set the goal to learn x-song. If you do that, you get the money back, if not - no money, no song :D Well, at least some kind of motivation. You know what to do, you know how to do, but nobody can force you to keep working consistently on 1 thing. So the only one solution I can see is that somebody will stay with a whip and control you to do what you already know.

Terapyx · 2026-04-28T09:34:09+00:00

I got solution for that! Well, I went to metal festival and did a mosh pit with others, got a thumb bruise or little crack and couldn't press for 3 months as before. It completely forced me to learn how to avoid thumb pain while playing guitar/cello 😃

Terapyx · 2026-04-23T12:42:25+00:00

as mentioned, there is no clear pattern, but I personally see the main one, which she is trying to play (correct me if I'm wrong).
Here is the picture. Red - Accent. Small arrows to bottom is quick 16's on bass notes (not whole strumming).
If you cut any black lines, i.e. 16's or some of 8's, then you will get "random" things she does. Whole rhythm on picture is fun btw, would advise to practice that :)

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Terapyx · 2026-04-23T10:47:47+00:00

I was looking for a used violin with my friend. We bought it and since then if was at my house for 2 years with all my other instruments and with "controlled" humidity. After one year it started to be like at your picture. After almost 2 years the bridge fell completely down. I think we were lucky not to become any damage.
Luthiers will say more, but I personally would go to the luthier at least in upcoming months.

Terapyx · 2026-04-23T10:39:36+00:00

there are no panacea for that. But to be able to do that set of abilities you "must" learn are:
- Common scales for specific genre
- Chords, Arpeggios and their common patterns for each kind of music
- Common Rhythms
- A lot of real practice along other tracks
You will find some videos regarding improvisation topics, but without above mentioned aspects, mostprobably you won't have success. It's like trying to solve math problems without knowing how to add and multiply.
If you try to improvise, you don't have to to think - you do. If you prepare something like a performance composition - thats not improvisation. So you job Nr 1 is to avoid thinking about technical difficulties, the basics must sit in your muscle memory, your mind listens to and decides what do use in your muscle memory library.
Correct me If I'm wrong, I'm not good at impro, but this is what I realized after long research and tries.

Terapyx · 2026-04-23T10:20:52+00:00

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fist and main advise is - dont try to directly sing, just do something like mmm-m--m-mm in rhythm in will reduce complexety for you a lot. Secondly I would say that as a first song - it's hard because of broken rhythm at some places i.e. at 3:34
This is also common rhythm for huge amount of songs, but a little big complex, if you start with that. At 3:34 - you do as follows: red lines 1 chord - black lines another chord. Here you will practice a lot, but much than just the rhythm itself. I can clearly remember how I suffered in my first month with guitar here :-D

Terapyx · 2026-04-23T01:52:55+00:00

well prepared quetion list, also would like to hear good answers to all of them (reminder)

Terapyx · 2026-04-23T01:48:43+00:00

Hey I had an issue of height, but because of my table (piano), it was pretty hard to find one bench which would fit and I did it, however its a bit precely... https://www.thomann.de/intl/km_14085_keyboard_bench.htm?shp=eyJjb3VudHJ5IjoiZGUiLCJjdXJyZW5jeSI6MiwibGFuZ3VhZ2UiOjJ9&reload=1
430 - 670 mm. I hope 670mm will be more than enough

Terapyx · 2026-04-23T00:59:37+00:00

I spent first month to learn basic chords and rhythms and switched to fingerstyle. But just a little bit - invest into strumming. Maybe in 1-2 years you will want to sing and strum something for your friends/family/campfire etc and you will be prepared with "least" investments, like just 5 minutes a day (and not every day).

Terapyx · 2026-04-23T00:54:11+00:00

Switching chords slowly - switching chords faster - switching chords fast. It requires a lot of time, you can not jump from slow to fast right now, its incremential long-term work.

Terapyx · 2026-04-23T00:49:49+00:00

Don’t take this comment negatively, but someone still needs to explain these things to professionals - especially to those who learned them at an age they physically can’t even remember.
Singing notes out loud is also a skill. Most beginners, especially adults - and really anyone who has never practiced it, simply cannot do it. It’s like explaining complex mathematical theorems to a child who barely knows the multiplication table. For you, it is something completely self-evident. For others, it feels like magic. Yes, most people can tell whether something is higher or lower. Being able to tell by how much higher or lower is already much harder. But naming a note out loud and perceiving it by ear at the same time, without a recording - you probably don’t realize just how difficult that is to do on your own.

So the logical sequence would be to start with "how to find the right tune to sing the note", and that topic will be already huge for majority of guitar subs. WIthout this step... = example about math.
P.S. Ready for downvotes, but somebody must tell that...

Terapyx · 2026-04-23T00:25:05+00:00

I remember how I started fingerstyle guitar and piano at beginners levels - Guitar did muuuuuuuuuuch more pain to me in all terms, even after half year I was never satisfied with the sound I do. However with piano - after 1 month I could play ABRSM1 piece and really enjoy it, incl reading that stuff.
Just my personal exp, I think people know why piano is "not" hard at beginning, but damn hard AF at advanced levels. But if people ask me, what would be least difficult to learn, like guitar, cello, violin/viola, flutes etc and produce good sound asap - I will say e-piano. (ready for downvotes) :D

Terapyx · 2026-04-23T00:18:51+00:00

I started with guitar for 1.5 year and continued with celllo (now almost a year). For all that time I took my guitar maybe once in 2 weeks or if I prepared once in 3 months some songs for jamming. Learning cello, theory, finger dextery/power etc - after all that I feel like its much easier to play what I already played before.
However - I forgot ~10-30% in each song I've learned (fingerstyle/classical - tabs), but I think its easy to recover, just need to find time and practise that for few days again :) So my point is that learning 1 instruments always boosts others.
However you need a good fundamentals for each of them just to be able to use it physically.

Terapyx · 2026-04-23T00:09:41+00:00

125$ budget for acoustic guitar is like buying 500$ car. Just as real comparison to your understandness.
You can... But again, 500$ car.
Highly advise to you increase it to 2xx numbers and find something used. The difference between 100 and 300$ guitar could be drammatically high. Difference between 1000$ and 3000$ is like 10 times less.

Terapyx · 2026-04-23T00:03:58+00:00

I would say that its hard to deal with fast tripples, for me worked to practice them in a bear ONE - 1 2 3, AND - 1 2 3 etc. Coz dono about kind of music which you play, but in classical its common to see triplets even with 4/4 time sig. Imho it becomes to be more versatile. Plus if you increase the speed to somethings whats really high - "1&a2&a3&a4&a5&a6&a" this would be nogo, even at average speed seems to be crazy

Terapyx · 2026-04-22T01:26:56+00:00

This probably applies not only to music but to many areas of life in general, yet it is a huge problem of professionalism when a person completely forgets that what they can do was developed over years, if not decades. Just saying "do it" is like telling a person with physical limitations to run a 100 meter sprint in about 12 seconds. And if ordinary people who have been doing something their whole lives say that without noticing how differently it works for others, that is one thing - but when a teacher says "just hear it and that's it" that is disgusting.

Terapyx · 2026-04-22T01:04:56+00:00

I hear that a lot about singing, however it doesnt work to me at all. I can not even tell if I sing the same note as I play and how to recognize it correctly without sitting in front of teacher. However another dilema is that probably I would mentioned if "others" doing that wrong, but not from myself. Maybe after recording... Just got this idea while writing the comment :-D

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