Hello everybody and welcome to another lesson about a very important aid you can use in order to keep
time better.
And this is going to be about physically keeping the time were manifesting to time with your buddy and
the most common way to do that.
For example if you are a singer so many singers like to snap their fingers.
But for most musicians who their hands are not free.
So the easiest way can manifest the rhythm is by tapping the feet.
So in this lesson I'm going to give you an overview of this.
It might seems such a natural thing to do and for many people it does come naturally.
For me it wasn't like this and I had to pay extra attention to it.
But once I did start to do it.
And by the way it's still very hard for me to do it naturally while sitting down.
It comes more naturally to me when I'm standing up and my whole body is more free.
But if you start actually doing it and paying attention to it and trying to do that.
And it's also a thing of practice because in the beginning it's hard to do that because it's will not
be automatic gets will be like you have to pay attention both to playing and Booth to your feet.
But when you will start to do that so you will see that your inner metronome that we already started
working on was the core exercise.
You will sit at your inner metronome just drives your feet and it all becomes a lot easier and a lot
more natural to do that.
And as a result from tapping your feet you're also a lot more in time now besides showing you an overview
of how to tap your feet I'm also going to show you how.
Just by using the tapping your feet we are going to do some different exercises that are really really
really going to take your time keeping way ahead.
So quick overview.
There are a couple of different things in different ways in which you can look at musicians and you
will see them tapping their feet.
And what I suggest is that after a show you these couple of techniques play around with them and see
what really works for you what feels natural for you might be different when different songs for you
different types of music even in different sections of the song but try them around and see what works.
So the most obvious one in my opinion is simply tapping the front of one feet.
Now there is a thing as a guitar is because it might be comfortable for you to either do it with the
leg that the guitar was resting on for example for me it will be the right right leg now or with the
outer leg and then the guitar is not bouncing around.
When you do that so it might be more comfortable for you.
You can play around with about an outer thing you can do is tap both feet at the same time.
Just like that
besides that many musicians there are many famous musicians especially jazz musicians I noticed that
used to tap the rear part of their feet.
You can try it around and you will see the list for me that it gives me sort of a sense of forward motion
and works very well especially with songs that are in faster tempos so you can try it around and see
if it works for you and then be sidestepping your feet.
There is also one more thing that I'm going to talk more about perhaps you already watch a lesson before
but it's in the super important lesson about how to get into the groove of the song and this is manifesting
the rhythm not three or feet but actually in all of your upper body.
So sort of like letting your body you know bounce a little bit and really feeling the groove really
feeling the beat in that way.
You don't even need to move your feet at the same time.
But it also helps if you move both.
You feel your upper body moving and you feel your leg moving.
One two three.
Don't forget to also count in if you watch the lesson about the count.
All right.
One two three four.
Now let's do a little exercise and what you want to do is first of all let's not even focus on chords
so mutes strings or if you're on a piano don't play anything and just try and see what works.
Try it with the rear bar of your feet.
Try it with different Well it's a bit more slowly.
One two three four.
And now let's throw one chord into it.
The G chord G
move your whole body
all right now let's get to the really good stuff.
And after we've been tapping our feet the way we've been doing up until now which is basically on each
quarter note One two three four one two three four.
Now I'm going to show you a couple of exercises that you can do slowly challenging yourself and when
you will do them and you will see that it will start naturally even doing them.
You will really get to a whole new place of how you grab the rhythm and how you actually feel the rhythm.
And this is where you first start in the simple way of just instead of one two three four one two three
four more simple thing to do would be to just tap your feet on the 1 1 1
3 4 1 2 3 4.
This will be the most basic thing.
And from here what you want to do is for example challenge yourself to only tap on the two or three
or the fourth so also for example it's only tap on the tube one
three for two.
This is already a lot more challenging because it's not where the beats actually has to accent which
is on the one next thing you want to do is you want to tap into pairs.
So one in three and then also practice stepping on the two and the four.
This is actually a pretty natural thing to do and you will see that it feels really good.
Once you get the hang of it and when you will get the hang of it especially on the two and the four
dads where you all really feel that you are swinging in your bit is going very well.
So just play on one chord the beginning just to keep things simple
too.
You get the idea and then let's try it on.
On the two and the fourth one two three four
brackets around.
Was it a little bit and you will see that you are really going to a totally new place.
It is very confusing in the beginning.
Don't give up keep it could keep you sing it and start on the lower tempos.
My examples here were not as slow as you should really start.
I would start at around 60 BPM and from there start building it up so that's it.
This is a basic over your phone tapping your feet just like I said even though in the beginning it might
not feel natural at all.
Remember that with some practice will become natural and it's definitely one of the things out of anything
else that will really help you keep the time.
Have a great time and I will see in the next lesson.