Syncopation
A good way to become more comfortable with eighth rests is to play a scale with a rhythm pattern containing an eighth rest on every beat and an eighth note in between every beat, which creates a syncopated rhythm. Syncopation means displacing the normal flow of accents, usually from on the beat to off the beat.
This is demonstrated in the following example. When using rests, counting is particularly important so you don’t get lost and play notes in the wrong place.
Now try improvising with set rhythms which contain eighth rests. As mentioned earlier, it is best to memorize the rhythm on one note first, and then to improvise with it. Here are some examples of this type of playing.
Class Sessions
1- Arpeggios
2- New Techniques - The Trill
3- The Minor Pentatonic Scale
4- The Blues Scale
5- INTRODUCTION
6- Sixteenth Note Rhythms
7- Understanding Rhythms
8- The Major Pentatonic Scale
9- More on Eighth Note Rhythms
10- The Triplet
11- Five Forms of the Pentatonic Scale
12- Syncopation
13- Minor Arpeggios
14- Enharmonic Notes
15- Swing Rhythms
16- Combining Scales
17- Set Rhythms
18- Common Sixteenth Note Figures
19- Identifying Scale Patterns
20- Tremolo
21- Fretboard Diagrams
22- The Shuffle Rhythm
23- Dominant Seventh Arpeggios
24- The Rake
25- Using Ties
26- Scale Degrees
27- Left-Hand Fingers
28- Twelve Note Positions for Triplets
29- Combining Scales and Arpeggios
30- Analyzing What You Play
31- Tablature
32- Staccato
33- Set Rhythms Using Triplet Figures
34- Twelve Eight Time
35- Tablature Symbols
36- Thirty Second Notes
37- Playing With Pick and Fingers
38- Jam Along Progressions
39- Listening