Stevie Nicks on GuitarPrinciples

"THE Guitar Principles
Path: Level One

Chords and Rhythm"

Have You Got Rhythm?

Guitar players must be able to DO the correct rhythm, and UNDERSTAND the correct rhythm.

Reaction To
"The Path" from long-time teacher/player Byron Santo.....

"Received Jamie’s new book yesterday, WOW! I must say he has done it again, explained the unexplainable.

I wish that I had this book when I was learning how to read music. Would have saved teachers and myself a lot of time and headaches. Just the chapters on rhythm are worth the cost of the book!

Oh, and the chord chapters. I could have saved a few years of practicing chords just with those pages. It is defiantly a first to have information like that in print!

With Jamie’s books aiding musicians in learning, a “new breed of musicians” is being born; the level of musicianship even from beginners in the next few years will be extraordinary.

Great Book Jamie!"
Byron Santo

   "I received my copy of "The Path" yesterday
(haven't put it down yet). Brilliant - years of
confusion cleared up in easy to understand English.
     I don't know why but I just could not get my head
around rhythm notation- maybe I'm not the
brightest bulb on the tree but at last I understand
it. You would not believe some of the corny
explanations I got over the years.
     Cheers and Thanks!"

Bobby -
Dublin, Ireland

Here is an extremely syncopated melody, using sixteenth notes in various patterns to achieve the flowing feeling of this Stevie Nicks classic.

This song is quite complex, and it is quite a challenge to be able to sing the melody correctly AND play the fingerpicking pattern along with it.

Most students will simply not be able to do it. They will struggle, they will get physically tense in the attempt to match strums and words, and they will either give up or end up with something no one would really want to hear!

Here are the rhythms used in this song AND they are used in countless other songs you know, love, and are trying to play. Do you understand these rhythms? If not, guess what?

YOU NEED THE PATH!

Do you understand these rhythms?

They are used in the melody to this song.....

If you are working with "The Path Level One: Chords & Rhythm", test your understanding of Rhythm by writing out the melody to the song below, and doing what is necessary to understand the rhythm:

Write in the counting symbols under the notes
Tap your foot to the basic beat, and count the rhythm out loud
Tap your foot to the basic beat, sing the melody to the correct rhythm

Click here to see the rhythm written in correctly, courtesy of "Path" user, Michael Kirtly!

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