Soloing with Rhythmic Variation

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Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Hi there guys! In this tutorial I'm going to talk about something that I teach all the time to my college students. This is the idea of learning rhythmic variations. This is something that we might do already but are we doing it correctly? I know we all use some licks or patterns that use straight 16th notes or 16th not triplets or eight note triplets and...

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Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Ok, so now we will explore easiest way to practice this concept. We'll set our metronome at 80bpm and we will use a G major 3 note per string scale with the root starting on the 3rd fret (G) of the low E string. We will then play the scale continuously up and down (without repeating any note 2 times in a row). It would be a good idea to first get used to ...

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Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Intermediate Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Now here is a demonstration of how I might apply this in my own playing. Please note that this is still in the mind set of "practicing" so I'm not actually playing the way I would in a professional setting. I highly recommend that you expand further upon this concept. You can easily take a pattern you often use and apply the same rhythmic variations.

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