About bpm and strumming patterns

[RenanRischiotto]

@nadimz

Renan, I am not a native English speaker neither and your English more than fine.

Thank you

@nadimz

Although related to time signatures. Practicing strumming 8th or 16th beat doesn’t mean you need to change the time signature.

That means that 8th and 16th also exists for other time signatures. How that works?

@nadimz

In a 4/4 time signature, if you down strum every down beat, then you are strumming every 1/4 beat. If you add a up strum un between, then this would be a strum on an 8th beat.

That means 8th is 1/8? 16th is 1/16?

What’s the maximum of these “th’s”?. We have 4th (I believe this must be for 1/4?), 8th and 16th…? Also, could we count 1 e a 2 e a 3 e a 4 e a or 1 + a 2 + a 3 + a 4 + a or 1 e + 2 e + 3 e + 4 e +? Does that exists? That’s 12th?

@nadimz

The tempo hasn’t changed. Neither did the time signature. You are just playing on more beats.

I think here is one of the keys of all this for my understanding

@nadimz

It’s a very useful practice to put the metronome and just count these variations to get used to the intervals. The you’d try strumming as well.

How many intervals there are? How we count? 4th, 8th, 12th, 20th, 24th, 28th, 32th…?

Or 4th, 8th, 16th, 32th, 64th 128th…?

@nadimz

If you get a metronome that supports various time signatures than using this same method it could tell you when the measure starts in that time signature.

I have the Justin Guitar Time Trainer Metronome, it supports other times signatures like on 6/8 which has 2 accents. (This is the updated version but Justin doesn’t go deep to explain its features as the other one. He also created this to help). It was confusing to me like for this guy (his third question) first but I got the idea. Not the theory idea but understanding that’s not how the metronome works with 6/8

You wrote some typos, very few but could you fix them? My OCD would love it