Time
Timing is crucial. Actually bad timing is excruciating. This section might seem easy at first glance but the twists and turns of timing are deceptive. You need to develop a strong sense of timing to play with others as well as to record anything that is going to resemble a song. Practice to a metronome! It does not matter how brilliant your lead break is if you can’t hold a rhythm along with the band. Keep it simple and just build upon it until you are ripping 2 Octave scales in 1/8 notes at 240 bpm – not sure what that means? Dive on in.
1/4 notes are the bread and butter of timing. In a rock beat (4:4) with 4 beats per bar of music it means one note each beat.
1/8 notes bring some challenge along with changing your bpm for practice. The rest rounds out the basic skills you should have for jamming.
This level ups the challenge with some swift 1/16 notes and changing bpm and the super fun triplet.
Time to twist your mind around 3:4 and how to create a pattern. Also some tricks to funk up music with the rhythm section.
Ok time to go off the reservation and into the wild. 5:4, 3:4 over 4:4, resolving to notes other than the root. This will feel strange.
I am not even going to try to describe this level…. Alice in Wonderland kinda weird.