The country group decided to move the two mandolin players to the middle of the group, and the music teacher that plays base was helping me with chords. The fellow to my right was playing some 6 string base acoustic and was learning to read his fingering for what chord he was in since the lead guitarist changes chords too rapidly and often cannot see that he's moved his fingers.
So was getting that down and the music teacher says I think i know what is messing you up, it's tapping the G strings first. Well, that's how the fellow over at MandoLessons was saying to play off beat with country players is to tap the G strings, them strum down across the strings for what chord you're in.
So how am I supposed to retrain the brain to play off beat when I think anyone that has listened to music taps with the beat?!?
Was consciously trying to make an effort to heel tap on beat, toe tap on off beat. Did not sound good at first but then I heard a blending of the melody ... then the subconscious sneaks in and I'm strumming on the beat again. Argh!
Was looking in here searching for "play off beat" but was coming up with everything else but tips for playing off the beat.
Looked up on Google for the same thing, and all that was coming up was something about the session last too long. Google is stupid at times. And in the books that I have says nothing about learning to play off the beat.
Music teacher trying to tell me the beat is 1 2 3 4, and to strum 2 and 4. Well, chop, but I told him I'm just trying to get into 3 fingered chords so cannot chop on two fingered very well - especially on D.
So many things to get to learning and not enough time.
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