Hi all
I wanted to ask a question regarding the strumming pattern book Justin wrote with the drummer. I practice it often, sitting on the tain, earbuds in metronome on, tapping my foot fingers and mouth 
I saw today, which I didn’t take too much notice of, is that the page is essentially 1 long rhythm with bars and beats, to get my head around it I have been doing 1 stave (staff?) at a time which I think (not in front of my book) is 4 bars long.
Is the goal when working on this besides understanding maybe to go through a whole page at a time practicing, ie: set time for 5 min, metronome to what ever bpm, then go through the whole page repeatedly until the time runs out? Seems like a good idea, but just wanted your opinoin.
BK
Hi Bret, I don’t have the book so I don’t know what you’re looking at.
Assuming every bar is different, going through the whole page for chord strumming purposes is maybe not relevant because songs aren’t like that. Repeating 1 line, 4 bars, would be more practical in that situation.
Going through the whole page as a rhythm exercise is certainly a good idea because you’re changing rhythm all the time. It’s very helpful for lead playing where every bar will have notes of varying duration.
You can do it both ways or any which way you can think of and it will help with understanding and playing rhythms
Thanks for that.
Yeah I thikn doing both is going to be helpful. I recently tried doing a page with a scale and man was that hard, even at 50bpm.
That was something Justin bought up in a lesson somehwere, but definitely going to do both.
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