How to Use a Metronome for Electric Guitar Solos: Part 1

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Hi! My name is John Armstrong with expertvillage.com, I’m a professional guitar instructor and today I’ll be going over some of the basic rudiments of playing the lead guitar or soloing. Okay now that we’ve discussed the major scale it’s important to realize that with any scales, major scales, minor scales, any licks arpeggio, anything like that that I’m going to show you, one of the most important tools, one of the most important things you can use is the metronome. The metronome is a time keeping devise and I would start your metronome off it should have a number on it and I would start it off at 60, that stands for 60 bpm or 60 beats per minute, what I would do is start off playing quarter notes or one note per beat trying to place that note directly on top of the beat as possible, for example I’ll be using a C-major scale a one octave C-major scale…just looping the scale back and forth, not stopping and doing this the total of five times minimum…and you get the idea. Next I would do two notes per beat or what’s referred to as an eighth note, you may want to say this to yourself a few times first to get the feel for the rhythm 1, 2, 1, 2…doing this the total of five times in a roll, using all the proper fingers with the left hand in alternate kicking technique with the right hand alternating back and forth between down picks and up picks. Next would be triplets or three notes per beat, once again you may want to say this to yourself a few times first to get the feel for how fast or slow it’s going to be, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3…then sixteenth notes or four notes per beat saying it to yourself to get a feel for how slow or fast it’s going to be 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3…five times or more…

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