Hope you enjoyed the live session!
Still got questions? Submit your Theory of Rhythm questions below!
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Thanks for a great session! More jokes? Just kidding.
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Hey @FannyJustinGuitar ,
When will this live session’s recording be posted to the website. I’m a PMT subscriber who couldn’t make the live session, but I’m really looking forward to watching the session this weekend if possible.
TIA
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@Fast-Eddie It has been uploaded to the website today https://www.justinguitar.com/guitar-lessons/pmt-20-theory-of-rhythm-pmtlc-020
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That’s strange. It’s posted at the link you provided, but it doesn’t show up in the Music Theory Live Club section of the PMT course: https://www.justinguitar.com/clubs/music-theory-live
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HI all. Just watching the replay on the website, although the video it self is linked through youtube. I know that the internet isn’t perfect and the lag issues are something Justin has been dealing with for so long, is there any chance of a google drive with the recording available to be downloaded? When the strumming comes on it’s so interesting, but the lag makes it hard to understand what is happening.
love this video so far though, it’s something I have struggled with since I started back up 
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Thanks for this first 2026 PMT session…we started with a Bang! When the e-mail came with the title of the lesson I was already “Yes, please!”
The lesson was very informative with advice for everyone. Ah the lags! I only can imagine how frustrating for Justin and Fanny!
No doubt it would be better without the lag but, something the student can do about it, and that will be beneficial, is to listen mindfully, imagine and try to say what Justin is doing; to make it less challenging you can decrease the speed of the video on YouTube, and try to do the same on your guitar. Just try to use your ears.
Thank you Justin for answering the questions, the response to the internal timing one was unexspected and much appreciated…as simple as that, but you talking about your own journey made the real difference.
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Hey everyone! We should be able to fix the lag early next week - thanks for your patience!
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Not a question here, but something for Justin to consider while he’s developing his rhythm class content. A request, perhaps?
Here are a couple of things I’m lookin for in a Rhythm & Groove course:
Using popular rhythms as a way to teach some of the mechanics and theory of common rhythm techniques, such as: Bo Diddly groove, etc.
For me, the perfect course would teach the mechanics and thought processes needed to improvise interesting rhythms over a drum track or at a jam.
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Thank you for another great session! 
I couldn’t make it live this time, so I had to watch the recording.
Great and helpful content, and presented in a very motivating and entertaining way. I learned a lot.
The highlight for me was the intro with the teaser of that song. 
Oh, are we really getting a tutorial for this one? 
This would feel like getting a Christmas present in January 
Oh yes, and more jokes, please 
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That’s what I wondered too, I think it is objectively a quite complicated one, the sections of the song being so different, the beat is not obvious, loud and quiet dynamics in the fingerpicking and probably some strums too…it seems to me like really advanced. Listening to Justin’s rendition would be itself a gift, that intro to the lesson was so lovely! And that might be a real example on how we could develop confidence with our internal time feeling.
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Hey all! Video has been updated and should now be less laggy. Thanks for your patience on this. I’ve noted that there’s brewing interest for more structured lessons on this 
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A bit late in posting, but I wanted to say how much I enjoyed the class, particularly the bits about triplet strumming patterns, it took me a long time to realize that quite often when I am trying to strum along to a song and it just doesn’t sound right and I can’t figure out how to fix it–its a triplet thing I am all for adding a rhythm part to the PMT course, particularly on more advanced concepts–6/8, 12/8 etc time signatures. A topic that I find really intriguing that is related to that “groove” thing-where on the beat you play? Somewhere I read (or heard) that there were three ways to play on the beat–a tiny touch before, a tiny touch after, and right on. This is particularly significant when strumming rhythm I think–do you start your downstrum right on the beat, or just before so that the center of the chord rings you on the beat (or the high notes ring out on the beat)–I think this is the key to “making it feel good”.
I had two practical experiences with this–one was with a fiddle player in Ireland who told me he had never met a guitarist who really tapped there foot on the beat, they were always a little ahead (probably an exaggeration, but he was an kind of ornery about it so I stopped tapping 
)). The second was in my 10 minute cajon lesson with Justin during a workshop where he explained that I was “leaning” on beat, always getting a little ahead, which means you go faster, and faster, and faster…
I have been actively trying to “lay back” recently when working with a metronome–its tricky!
Lots to explore and as I said–I am all in favor of a PMT course section on Rhytym!
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me too!
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