What I'm going to do now is I'm going to record myself playing and then I'm going to listen back and see how it sounds because it's one thing
to play it and how it feels and another thing to listen back when you're not feeling it and you're just listening.
So I'm going to play it and then we're going to listen and them I'm going to critique and see if I'm in the pocket
and how I'm doing and what I need to work on.
Alright.
I'm just going to play some tight chords just some little A minor to a G and I'm going to start off with just one, one and one, one, tight.
Nice.
What I'm listening to is not the actual beat, I am but I'm breaking it up into quarters in my head.
Two, three, four and it's helping me stay on it.
Let's try two.
Three.
Four.
As you're practicing this you'll notice that as you're focusing on, you're landing on the beat but just a hair behind it.
You might find yourself chasing the beat a little bit where you're speeding up and slowing down and that kind of stuff.
It's ok if that happens at first. After a while it'll go away, it'll get better.
Alright, I want to take a listen back and see just how that was vibing out there yeah.
It's definitely not in front and that's the goal we are working on not being in front.
It doesn't have to be perfect, it doesn't have to be exactly precise every time.
It just has to be behind, I know it's a strange exercise.
Nah. You could hear the thinking. You could hear the thinking in there.
So that's when you need to just tell yourself relax, relax, that's when you tell yourself to stop thinking.
Use a different part of your brain to focus on it because you can do that.
There's multiple parts of your mind, it's sort of like think about it like the front of your mind and the back of your mind.
When the front of your mind is thinking about it that is when it gets very tense.
When the back of your mind is taking care of it that's when it's free.
So you want to just put things in the back of your head and not really focus on it and it just sort of happens.
That's another thing that in some other lessons that I'm going to work on with you all so yeah.
Cool. Alright.
So until then just practice this.
Behind the beat, just a little behind the beat and get comfortable doing that
and it will help you stay in the pocket when you're playing with a drummer or whatever you're playing to
but keep in mind that you are always playing to something whether it's the beat in your head, whether it's an external beat
There's something and you just want to stay in the pocket of that and not jump in front of it.
Cool. Thank you very much.