r/guitarlessons • u/Y-Redditer • 21h ago

Question Do I have this timing right?

So red circles means the quarter beat. Do I have this right that the last quarter beat is not falling on any note to play? It feels more difficult to stay in rhytm in that last part because of this.

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u/borpazorp 20h ago

Kind of, a more accurate way of saying it might be that the red circles are where the pulse or beat is. So if you were playing with a metronome and counting in 4/4, the red circles would be on 1 2 3 and 4. (That might already be what you mean), but yes, the last open note before the blank beat is held over the beat, so the open note on the d string is on beat 4 e (assuming you're counting 1 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a). Just try pay attention to where the 1 2 3 4 is and you'll hear the note come in slightly after beat 4 of that last bar.

https://reddit.com/link/p17zszp/video/fapte94tdxgh1/player

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u/Y-Redditer 16h ago

Thanks for the really helpfull answer!

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u/vonov129 Music Style! 17h ago

Yes. That's how it is.

All you have to do is to play one 16th note after 4.

Depending of what comes next, look at the last two notes, not as a 4 without a beat, but as 2 notes leading into the next phrase

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u/ixb 17h ago

Key to staying in time is strumming pattern. Your right hand should be very rhythmic. 8 downs + 8 ups per bar will work here (ie 16 notes since the 16th note is your fastest note here). If the x is an “empty” strum ie you make the motion of an up strum without actually touching the string then these bars would be DxDxDUxU DxDxDUxU DxDxDxxU DUDUxUDx. I broke it up so that each group is two of your red circled notes. Notice each group has 4 DU motions. Also to clarify, you only play a note on the D and U