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- Guitar
- Electric guitar
- Bass guitar
- Ukulele
Make guitar rhythms clearer with deliberate picking patterns and control of unwanted strings
- Guitar
- Electric guitar
- Bass guitar
- Ukulele
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About Robert
I'm Robert, and I like to make a guitar part understandable as a set of musical jobs. One note may provide the bass, another may carry the tune, and a quiet strum may hold the rhythm together. In a lesson, we can decide which job matters first and build the part around it. You should not need to coordinate every possible detail before the result starts sounding like music. I will help you find a version that is manageable now and show you how the fuller version grows from it.
If a pattern falls apart, I will look for the point where your next movement becomes unclear. Perhaps the pick has finished on the wrong side of a string, or the hand is trying to prepare a change after the beat has already arrived. We can stop at that point, identify the next destination and put the surrounding notes back in. I will also ask what you notice when you practice alone. If the instructions are easy to forget, we can turn them into a short diagram, a spoken rhythm or a clear example you can reproduce.
Children, teenagers and adults can all work with this approach without receiving the same lesson. A younger student might enjoy turning a two-string pattern into a short tune; a teenager may want to understand a particular picking sound. Adult beginners and returning guitarists can build reliable accompaniment without being rushed through shapes they cannot yet use comfortably. Advanced players can bring more detailed questions about articulation and arrangement. I want you to understand why we chose a particular exercise and where it belongs in your music, so practicing becomes a series of useful decisions rather than a demand to repeat everything until it improves.
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Beginner
Intermediate
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Children
1er cycle
2e cycle
3e cycle
4e cycle
CEM
DEM
DE
CA
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A guitar part can have the right chord shapes and still sound less clear than you expect. Extra strings ring, a picked note gets buried, or the right hand loses its place when the rhythm changes. We will give that hand a simple route to follow. With the strings lightly muted, you can first hear the rhythm as a pattern of attacks and spaces. Then we can choose a small group of strings and restore their notes while keeping the same pulse. A beginner can make a musical accompaniment with very few left-hand movements, so learning the rhythm does not have to wait for a collection of difficult chords.
For picking, we will make the string order visible and predictable before increasing the speed. You might play a short bass-and-treble pattern, pause after its final note and prepare the first string of the next repetition. Once the route is clear, we can remove that pause without changing the order. If an unwanted string rings, we will examine which hand is available to quiet it and when the contact needs to happen. Returning and intermediate players can use this to clean up an accompaniment they already know. Advanced players can investigate more demanding string skips, accents and articulation, keeping the musical line audible instead of judging the attempt only by its speed.
We will connect those details to the sound of the song. A verse may need a lighter pattern than a chorus, or a bass note may need to stand out without every upper string getting louder too. We can try a short arrangement with one deliberate change of texture, then listen to whether that change helps the phrase. Children can build short repeating patterns, teenagers can work with the rhythm of a favourite track, and adults can develop an accompaniment they can comfortably sustain. Your practice task will name the picking route, the rhythm and one clarity target, giving you a practical way to check progress before adding more notes or speed.
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The first free lesson with Robert will allow you to get to know each other and clearly specify your needs for your next lessons.
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