>> Another tool you'll want to have is metronome.
This is one that I like.
You can get this as an app on your phone.
You can also get a box like this.
There are some that have an arm on them,
the really old school ones,
it's all about the same.
I have this set on the lowest setting
and it's just going to give me a click
that will help me count through a song.
[NOISE] You'll see that in the most basic chord chart
that's used for a lot of pop music,
rock music, and folk music,
there is an indication of how many beats per measure you have to play,
which means how long you're going to hold,
in our case bass notes.
We have one and the bass notes
we're going to play are G, D, A, G, D, C.
I already know that the G
and the D are going to last for two beats and the A
and the C are going to last for four beats
because of the way the chart is written.
The first step that I have is I have to make sure I know
where those notes are so that I can get to them in time.
Remind yourself first of all, where the notes are.
G is on the third fret,
D is on the 10th fret, A is on the fifth fret.
Take your time practicing that,
so it feels very comfortable.
C is on your eighth fret,
and so that's the next thing I'm going to practice going from G to D to C.
Third fret, 10th fret, eighth fret.
Now, I feel pretty good about it.
I think I could play it along with the metronome.
I'm going to start it out and I'm going to count with it.
Just say it out loud.
Two clicks for G and D, four clicks for A and C.
Here we go.
[NOISE] G, D, A, G,D,C
Now what I'll do is I'm going to only fret it
with my left hand and not play it yet.
Just so that it gives me one interim step.
I'll let it click for four beats and then I'm going to put my left hand
and let that move in time with the metronome.
[NOISE].
G, D, A, G, D, C.
Now I'm going to play it.
[NOISE]
[MUSIC]
You'll see that when I play that,
I actually sometimes would leave the note a little bit early
so that I had time to shift and that's great.
That's what you want to do.
You want to take your time,
but make sure you're moving
so that you can hit the note on the right beep.
As you go with the metronome,
the great thing is you can bump it up
and speed just a little bit at a time.
Here's two notches.
You can hear what that sounds like.
[NOISE]
[MUSIC] You'll see numbers on there
and they're consistent on every metronome
no matter what type it is.
If I say to you,
I want to go at 60,
you would just take it
and turn it up until you hit 60
either on your app or on this little dial.
Then we know how fast we're going to play
or how slow we are going to play together.
Here's that 60.
We started at 40.
[NOISE]
[MUSIC] You'll get used to it.
What you are going to do is set it really slowly
so that you can be comfortable and you can sound great.
Then you bump it up little by little.
You'll feel it if it's going too fast for where you feel comfortable,
you'll start to feel uncomfortable.
What you want to do is back it up
and just get comfortable
and you'll be surprised how quickly you can pick it up.