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Besides an article extolling the virtues of playing rhythm guitar, more importantly something to instill in the budding guitarist the importance of the fundamentals of rhythm. I’ve played with several guitarists who, while adept at theory and being fleet of finger, neglected this particular building block and simply do not have that internal sense of rhythm that a) keeps them on the beat and any subdivision thereof, and b) makes them play a full measure of music before moving on to the next one. Your Metronome Minimalism article might already cover that but I thought I’d just chime in with an issue that in my experience is a tragedy of potentially excellent guitarists being guitarists who can’t be played with due to their wobbly sense of time.
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I could not agree with you more. It really is a shame that this step in the music process is so often overlooked, and as much as I love my fellow pickers, they are among the most notorious offenders. The Metronome Minimalism dealie does touch on the essentials of proper timing, but it’s much more focused on the how than the why. Good suggestion, and definitely worth at least one more article…