I think there's one very important aspect of playing which sometimes gets overlooked which is accenting.
Not just in rhythm but in soloing, in everything.
The importance of just how it makes what you're playing speak so much more when it's not at this linear volume
and it's pushing and pulling and doing all sorts of things.
Example: No accenting.
With accenting.
Just adds these little things to it, yeah, it does a lot more and makes the freezes a little more like a voice.
When we speak we don't just speak like this and do everything the exact same way and it just does not say as much as if we had inflections
and when we spoke there are pushes and pulls and breaks in the phrase and strong points, things like that.
You want to have that in your playing as well.
In all your phrasing you want to have accenting so we are going to do a little exercise to help you develop really good, strong accenting
and it's going to go on a three octave major scale.
Here's how the scale is going to go, we're going to start on F and we're going to go a whole, whole-half, next string starting a fifth higher
and the two whole steps and then we repeat that shape starting with the next octave of F right here and then the next octave of F.
Then we finish it with a final note right there.
So, whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half, whole, whole, half, whole.
What we're going to do is we're going to pick as hard as we can the accent and then as soft as we can, almost nonexistent when we're not accenting.
This would be the accent and this would be not. That soft so it would be like going…
Now let's try it worth our dreaded, brutal forty BPM metronome setting. Gah.
We'll do triplets and we're going to accent the first triplet which lands right on every beat of the metronome so we're going to go...
Loud, soft, loud, soft, soft, loud, soft, soft, loud, soft, soft. Ready, two, three, four.
Again. Stay behind it.
Good. Now let's do it again only now we're going to accent the middle triplet.
So it would go one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three.
Nice, let's do it again. Right here.
Again. Loud, soft, soft, loud, soft, soft, loud, soft, soft, loud.
Very nice, that was lovely.
We're going to do it again and we're going to do it with the third note of the triplets being accenting. So the first two are soft, the last one is loud.
So it would go like this one, two, three, one, two, three.
Again.
Ok, very good.
Try that. Nice. Yes.