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Challenging Palm-Muted Metal Rhythm Guitar Exercise

2/10/2019

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Gave this rhythmic exercise to a guitar student to help improve their picking dexterity while palm-muting. Having the rhythm mix up gallops, reverse gallops, and the occasional straight 8th notes can really fatigue your picking arm when you play this fast for long periods of time.
palm-mute metal rhythm guitar exercise challenging
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3/4 Time Signature Guitar Riff with Spaced Out Chords, 5th Chord Arpeggios, & a Legato Fill

2/3/2019

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This 3/4 time signature guitar riff was given to a student. It contrasts some chords with a spaced out rhythm pattern to some faster paced 5th chord arpeggios that finishes with a legato flourish.
3/4 time signature guitar riff
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ken_b._3-18-17_4.gpx
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3/4 Time Signature Syncopation Guitar Riff

1/31/2019

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This was given to a guitar student for them to work on odd rhythmic spacing (syncopation) in a 3/4 time signature.
3/4 Time Signature Syncopation Guitar Riff
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ken_b._3-25-17_3.gpx
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Choppy Sounding 3/4 Time Signature Guitar Riff

1/30/2019

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This 3/4 time signature guitar riff was given to a student to test his ability to play oddly timed staccato sounding chords.
3/4 time signature guitar riff staccato syncopation
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ken_b._4-1-17_1.gpx
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3/4 Time Signature Metal Guitar Riff with Gallops, Reverse Gallops, and Palm-Mute Accents

1/29/2019

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This was given to a guitar student to show an example of playing a metal style rhythm/riff in a 3/4 time signature. This uses a mix of gallops and reverse gallop rhythms with palm-mute accents, and finishes with fast paced chord changes.
3/4 time signature metal guitar riff palm mute gallop reverse gallop
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5/4 Time Signature Fairly Simple Guitar Strumming Pattern

1/28/2019

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This was given to a guitar student as somewhat of an introduction to playing in a 5/4 time signature.
5/4 time signature guitar strumming pattern
Here is the Guitar Pro 6 tab for this lesson:
ken_b._4-29-17_1.gpx
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5/4 Time Signature Guitar Riff with Slides, Up Beat Focus, and a 3 Beat Pause

1/27/2019

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This was given to a guitar student to test his abilities to play in a 5/4 time signature with some up beat focus, and a 3 beat pause to make sure he didn't get lost while pausing.
5/4 time signature guitar riff
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ken_b._4-29-17_2.gpx
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5/4 Time Signature Guitar Riff Using Power Chords, Staccato, & Some Short Single Note Stuff

1/24/2019

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This was given to a guitar student to see how well they could read and play in a 5/4 time signature. This was also put together to help them practice cutting off chords to make some staccato sounding music.
5/4 time signature guitar riff
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ken_b._5-27-17_1.gpx
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5/4 Time Signature Guitar Riff Using Power Chords, Slides, and Arpeggios

1/23/2019

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This was given to a guitar student to test their ability in reading rhythm notation, and being able to play what they've read.
5/4 time signature guitar riff
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ken_b._5-27-17_2.gpx
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8th Note - Quarter Note - Repeat 8x Across 3 Bars Rhythm Guitar Strum Pattern

12/17/2018

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This is a rhythm pattern given to guitar students when they have advanced through several different 8th note strumming patterns.

This pattern basically consists of playing an 8th note, then a quarter note, and then repeating that pattern as much as possible. Repeating that pattern lasts 3 bars/measures. The 4th bar shown here is to keep with a standard 4 bars approach, and to throw in a quick break from the repeating pattern.
8th Note Quarter Note Repeating Guitar Strum Pattern
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