The Most Crucial Skill To Improve For Recording Guitar On An Album
Your recordings sound much more professional when you master the skill of rhythm guitar playing. Additionally, doing this saves you resources, time and money in the studio.
To make excellent records using perfect rhythm guitar playing, you need to train and master various skills. Here is a list of some of the skills you need to work on:
Palm Muting To Get Rid Of All Unwanted String Noise
Having musical recordings that are overwhelmed with unwanted string noise sounds terrible. Eliminating this noise means developing a palm muting technique that uses both the picking hand and the fretting hand to clean your playing up.
Keeping The Notes Of All Chords Perfectly Stable
To develop this skill you need to train so that you are able to consistently pick each note in a chord with the same pick attack. This is critical when recording the same part over two or more tracks.
Palm Muting Consistently On All Tracks
Palm muting consistently means muting at the same location (on the strings) and using the same amount of pressure while pressing down with your picking hand. Many guitar players palm mute inconsistently either because they don’t practice muting consistently or aren’t aware that this skill exists to be practiced.
Playing The Same Rhythm Guitar Part Perfectly More Than Once
A lot of guitar players do not have good overall consistency in their playing. They do not practice recording and are unable to play something perfectly several times in a row. You WILL have to do this to create multiple tracks for a single part in the studio. This makes this skill critical for saving time, money and frustration.
Playing In Perfect Time
To make any rhythm guitar part sound professional, you must be able to play in perfect time with the drums and bass. This means locking in with the beat so that the part you’re playing seems to disappear. Perfecting this requires practicing recording yourself to make sure you are neither ahead of or behind the beat.
Learn more about how to improve these skills by reading through this article about getting better at rhythm guitar playing.
About The Author:
Tom Hess is a professional recording artist, composer, and expert guitar instructor. He teaches and trains guitarists how to become great musicians in his online rock guitar lessons. Visit tomhess.net to receive additional free guitar playing resources and to read more guitar articles.
