Essential Timing Exercises - full, half, quarter and 8th notes

In rock guitar timing is very important. The more tight you play your chords or single note lines the more " rock " your guitar will sound. Here is now a summary of the main essential rhythm figures you need to know when it comes to rock guitar. Practice them with a click or a rock drum loop in different tempo's because every tempo feels different and also pay close attention that your foot is also hitting the click of the metronome or the quarter notes of the rock drum loop.

The first part are the main rhythm figures which you need to know in detail how they feel, sound and how they look like in written notation. The second part are exercises from easy till advanced. You can control with the attached audio file if you have done the exercise correct. To achieve mastery in this topic also start to write your own exercises and play them with any chord you like.

If you don't know rhythm notation at all please view this short documentation :

These files are associated to this tutorial here :