,
I sat in the recording studio fully aware that I was making a massive mistake.
“Do you want to try the song again?”
The record producer said in my ear.
“Ok”
I said with a dry mouth.
I was really sweating now and with every strum on my guitar I was feeling more nervous.
I'd already spent £200 paying for this studio time.
I knew the song well but I couldn't for the
life of me keep it in time with the metronome.
It kept booming in my ears. A piercing “click” “click” “click”
I tried recording my guitar again but I made another mistake.
“Do we have to use this metronome?” I asked.
“If you want
your song to sound great with the rest of the band then yes” came the answer through my headphones.
After 3 hours of trying to record one song I ended up with nothing.
And at the time I was heartbroken. It took the 18 year old me a long time to save up the money to be in that studio.
I learnt a
valuable (and expensive) lesson that day.
If you can't play guitar to a metronome then you don't know the rhythm of the song.
From then onwards I always practised my songs to a metronome.
And my rhythm got better, tighter and I gained a missing element to
my playing.
Even if you know just 2 chords, if you've got great rhythm and time keeping then you're playing will always sound great.
It was this story that inspired the LGIL Natural Rhythm course.
It's a step by step program on how to read and play rhythm
guitar.
It uses 168 rhythm examples. And it's helped 327 people (so far) to play better rhythm guitar.
Please don't make the same painful mistakes I did. Start improving your rhythm right now.
Keep on playing,
