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Rhythm issue (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I cannot play on time. Not in terms of missing beats, or losing the click in the middle of a song, but in that my timing is almost always off. I compared my played notes to the click in the DAW, and I'm usually rushing, sometimes by 30-40ms. I remember Adam Neely said once that 10ms is barely acceptable, so yeah.

I tried dividing the distance between clicks in my head, doubling the metronome tempo, moving with the beat, consciously conpensating for the rush, nothing helped. Therefore, my questions - how's your timing doing? What can I do to improve mine?

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[+] [email protected] -6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (7 children)

We must be fundamentally different kinds of guitar players. Timing? Metronome? 10 millisecond delay? Why are you trying to perfectly copy someone else's music when you could be arranging your own novel collections of frequencies? Why formalize your art or restrain playful acts of spontanious whimsy.

When I play the timing comes from what feels right and sounds good.

Each practice session my goal is to discover a new chord or a new way to piece the strumming and harmonic frequencies together in a way that I never have before, sometimes intentionally breaking rhythm speed just to experience a drastic shift or see how it affects the mood.

Fuck time signatures and fuck musical notation, creative musical types are better off staying far away from them lest their imagination becomes caged by formality and law.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

If I go to the teacher and ask to teach me how to improvise, I would not feel I got my money's worth if they tell me "just play whatever you want". I'd like to know what I'm doing with the guitar, and studying music theory is the easiest way to go about that. You need to get yourself inside the box before you can get out of it.

10ms thing is the consequence of me trying to make the stuff I play sound good. Right now, this is not the case for me, and I feel my sloppy rhythm is a contributing factor.

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