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ChristopherSchlegel
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ChristopherSchlegel
Guitar Tricks Instructor
Joined: 08/09/05
Posts: 8,328
09/17/2022 2:57 pm
#1 Originally Posted by: Ianelrick

Hi


Anyone guide me to tutorial re synchopation? I searched but could not find any. 


 


Sycopation is using a variety of rhythms played or implied at the same time. That's it. It can be done in a virtually endless variety of ways.


So it depends on how you are trying to apply the concept, what style of music, what kind of chords, lines, etc.  Let's try some specific examples.


In this tutorial on basic strumming patterns Lisa shows how to combine playing some strums on the downbeats (the counted numbers) & others in between the beats (the eighth note upbeats).  This is a basic kind of syncopation done by one player with strumming chords on acoustic guitar.  It's a more interesting rhythm than if you were just simply strum every downbeat, or all the eighth notes.


https://www.guitartricks.com/lesson/23537 


In this tutorial on rock rhythm guitar I show how to use a syncopated type of rhythm in a different style with a slightly different physical technique.


https://www.guitartricks.com/lesson/19311


Hope that helps!


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