Re-started my guitar journey a few months ago after a 30 year gap - so just a baby player.
I’m playing a few songs and have progressed to level 2.
I’ve tried to improve my strumming with a metronome and it’s currently not working for me. Spend more time frustrated than playing so the question. Would some sort of drum beat producer be better than a metronome at present.
I’ve looked a a boss rc5 (which I’m told does drum beat or a beat buddy). Any suggestions are welcomed including get back to the metronome (click click)
Folk often prefer a drum groove to a metronome as it’s more interesting. You say it’s not working for you … do you mean you can’t keep in time? If that’s the case, then I doubt a drum track will help and more practice is probably the answer - perhaps a different tempo (sometimes a really slow tempo is harder than a medium one), or a simpler strumming pattern - even if it’s just 4/4 time, all down strokes - start there.
If however you mean it’s not working because the sound just doesn’t excite you, then I’m with you. I use a Boss RC5, but as a looper it does so much more (so you are paying quite a lot) and the drum patterns are a bit limited. Personally for drums I most often use an app called DrumGenius - it’s fairly inexpensive (although you can try it free with limited patterns). I play that to my in-ears or amp via BT.
I recently came across Wikiloops, which has backing tracks in various genres that you can customize to have just drums or other instruments. And it’s free.
The metronome practice just doesn’t excite me. My idea was that something different might get me over the hump and back on track and back to using a metronome without the negatives.
