"99% of you can't play this simple exercise"

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Looking at an exercise that supposedly 99% of us can not play? Can't we? Should we? WHY?! TRIGGERED ▶All tabs available at my Patreon page◀
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1:14 exercise lvl. 1
4:14 exercise lvl. 2
5:25 exercise lvl. 3
6:44 exercise lvl. 4
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Пікірлер: 924

@klaus8456 3 жыл бұрын

"Just because you’re not a drummer, doesn’t mean that you don’t have to keep time." Thelonious Monk.

@markdemell3717 3 жыл бұрын

AYE!

@bobgreen8142 3 жыл бұрын

@@user-mm8vw1ow1x Thelonious Monk is God.

@andrewmair7371 3 жыл бұрын

Good one … 👍 😆 🤣 💃

@bluedragon5544 3 жыл бұрын

for those, who have troubles: find a name or any word or sentence with the right amount of syllables and go along with it! if you want to play 1 note per beat, for example "Joe" , 2 notes "Peter" , 3 notes " Barbara" , 4 notes "how do you do", 5 notes " Annamaria" and so on , just fit the name into the beat. I hope, my explanation helps ???

@dbuczek2035 2 жыл бұрын

Pamela Anderson

@michaeldominguez3081 2 жыл бұрын

Arnold Schwarzenegger

@chandlermason1796 3 жыл бұрын

That intro was 11/10 on editing and comedy and realism 🔥

@NACHOOFF 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing intro.

@merijn4440 3 жыл бұрын

This is actually something my former drum teacher made me do (but on the drums ofc). Very very cool exercise for your rhythm feeling. It hurts your brain more than your fingers

@gayming4197 3 жыл бұрын

I learned this on the piano: with scales, both hands parallel and both hands opposing directions, and then quarters left hand and eights right hand, then quarters left and triplets right, then eights left and triplets right, or dotted quarters plus eights, and so on... endless fun...

@PaulDavids 3 жыл бұрын

So... can you play it? Let's do the challenge! Try it out and use the hashtag #rhythmchallenge I'M SURE YOU GOT IT!

@joem9360 3 жыл бұрын

No...I cannot

@lukejakoinao209 3 жыл бұрын

I didn't understand a thing

@AsitShouldBe 3 жыл бұрын

You won! Lol.

@mh287 3 жыл бұрын

It was very easy actually.

@benyoung2014 3 жыл бұрын

How many people can get the 5/beat section first time idk - I definitely can’t

@versnellingspookie 3 жыл бұрын

1:24 much like my cat, your cat doesnt care what you're doing whenever he wants attention

@astewart9410 3 жыл бұрын

Same here.

@fritsvanzanten3573 3 жыл бұрын

1:22 but it has cat's eye in weird places

@DiegoHL 3 жыл бұрын

I have been playing drums for some years now, so I’m a little bit used to move my hands to the sound of a metronome. Also, I’m a little familiarized with subdivisions and give them syllables. For example, for triplets we use Ta-Ki-Ta (also for sixtuplets, just double the speed). For quintuplets use Da-Ni-Ke-Na-Dum. Or Ta-Ka-Ta-Ki-Ta About the exercise I had troubles with the quintuplets. Thanks for the video, teacher Paul

@MicaDeLaSierra 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing! Unsual sort of excercice and feels so helpful! 🙏💚

@AGlimpseInside 3 жыл бұрын

So I’m a drummer, I can play this in my sleep as most of us can. However play guitar as well I can see how if I was a exclusively guitar player, these types of rhythms would have not been ingrained in the early process as they are in the percussive world

@tombstone1055 3 жыл бұрын

Same here, 5's were a bit weird trying on the guitar, but tapping it out was easy.

@Pauld62 3 жыл бұрын

Well said, my guitar playing improved so much just learning some basic 4/4 drum beats. I can imagine it would improve alot more if i learnt some more complex drum stuff

@sethgardner8209 3 жыл бұрын

I thinks playing the drums gives you a massive advantage for guitar, amplified even more with bass. While I’m not the greatest player, I can play all three which gave me a huge head start

@jaminpaul4389 3 жыл бұрын

Drummer as well, I immediately thought of Tool's 'the grudge'

@michaelmcintyre8250 3 жыл бұрын

I started as a drummer too. Now let’s try a paradiddle....

@cameronf1460 3 жыл бұрын

99% can't grow a beard like yours

@NorbertNagyNorc 3 жыл бұрын

Most can. Just not on the chin.

@santiagobarraza28 3 жыл бұрын

@@NorbertNagyNorc that means they can't

@nicholasindalecio8211 3 жыл бұрын

It’s definitely a sweet beard

@lindsayheywood7195 2 жыл бұрын

Well for sure, 50% of us can’t. At least I would hope not!

@andycrowley 3 жыл бұрын

Such a wicked video! (That intro 🔥) BTW original video is by @Jarvisguitar on instgram. Give him a follow, plenty more gems like this 👌

@WhiteCranK 3 жыл бұрын

Your editing here is just awesome!! big up

@UsedBookStore 3 жыл бұрын

I'm a drummer, I can play it. But ask me to add notes and a melody, and I'm lost. Bloody left hand fingers.

@pashahillyard8763 3 жыл бұрын

Ever played marimba?

@GabrielBPerez_ 3 жыл бұрын

I see a Paul Davids video, I click...

@JoePariseauMusic 3 жыл бұрын

@Paul Davids I like to use the TaKaDiMi system (similar to Konnokol or Indian Solfedge like John McLaughlin endorses) for this! Totally worth a deep dive into this subject. I've fixed so many of my students sense of rhythm with this system! Rules: Ta is always on the downbeats and Di is always on the &. Round 1: Clap on all downbeats while verbally saying the syllables. Round 2: Clap only one 2 and 4. Round 3: Replace claps with foot taps while playing instrument. The Syllables: Quarter Note = Ta Eighth Notes = Ta Di Eighth Triples = Ta Ki Da Sixteenths = Ta Ka Di Mi Quintuplets = Ta Ka Di Mi Ti Sextuplets = Ta Va Ki Di Da Ma Septuplets = Ta Va Ki Di Da Ma Ti 32nds = Ta Ka Di Mi Ta Ka Di Mi Quarter Note Triplets = Ta Da Ki

@JoePariseauMusic 3 жыл бұрын

Can you figure out why a Quarter Note triplet is Ta Da Ki while an Eight Note triplet is Ta Ki Da?

@sandimtavares 3 жыл бұрын

Love the video, Paul. I'm happy to see you exercising your creativity with video editing and scripts as well.

@flutechannel 3 жыл бұрын

Nailed it! :)

@joxidearmageddonator882 3 жыл бұрын

"I'm terrible at guitar! I can't do it! NO!" - Paul Davids, 2020

@laurentdetaille4111 3 жыл бұрын

Super interesting exercise. Would have never thought about it, thanks !

@aztlangrooverecordz 3 жыл бұрын

great videos as always ... thank you for sharing the knowledge

@haridev8386 3 жыл бұрын

Well we should appreciate him. Today, he's having a match against Juventus and he's teaching us guitar. Really multitalented ❤ Lol

@vincentbeemer5269 3 жыл бұрын

Goat🙌🙌🙌

@thefryingpan8041 3 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@arpannaskar7462 3 жыл бұрын

Lol😂

@antoniaryanto5022 3 жыл бұрын

Asuuuu 😂

@jicklesjingles8134 3 жыл бұрын

But he's three times the height... 🤷‍♂️

@rodiusmaximus 3 жыл бұрын

This is almost an ad for metronome. I’m like ‘I don’t have one. I need one.’

@markrages 3 жыл бұрын

Type "metronome" into Google. Now you have a metronome.

@aqqaluksrensen5799 3 жыл бұрын

Nice one!! Great exercise! I couldn't, know I can individual rhythms but not combined, thank you for that!! something to improve!

@cardosoguitarra 3 жыл бұрын

Bravo, Professor! I’ll try it just now! Keep up the good work. Best regards from São Paulo/Brazil

@michaeltellurian825 3 жыл бұрын

We all know you're a great guitarist. We all know that you're a great teacher. This is my question: Did you produce this video on your own? Because if you did, you're also a great video producer. Outstanding work whoever did it.

@danielbartling5477 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure Paul does everything himself, he mentioned this in his latest studio tour.

@breadyegg 3 жыл бұрын

Bonus challenge: do it with a cat bothering you. [Edit] tip for quintuplets, repeat "tiki taki ta" (or similar)

@tolkienfan1972 3 жыл бұрын

I have four cats, so yeah... They bother me whenever I'm trying to something.

@cynthiahawkins819 3 жыл бұрын

Or say 'university'. I got that from a drummer.

@YazadIrani 3 жыл бұрын

I love the way you edit your vids man!!

@mateojimenez5905 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Paul I bought ur course during the summer and I stopped doing it when school started. I'm planning to start up again just wanted to say I love ur vids and appreciate all the work you put into them and into the course

@denobro1 3 жыл бұрын

I see Paul David’s. I click. I don’t hesitate. You’re my hero.

@pianoworld89 3 жыл бұрын

Level 2: left hand keeps the beat instead of a metronome, right hand does the exercise. Works without a guitar ;)

@the_spaghett_boy4331 3 жыл бұрын

dude I love your videos, they've helped me learn so much. Especially that video on John Mayers Neon, I was having all kinds of issues with that last year...

@NACHOOFF 3 жыл бұрын

Your videos are beyond creativity. Thanks! :)

@OliverLeu_Gitarrenunterricht 3 жыл бұрын

When it's coming to quintuplets, it's not a basic exercise anymore, I'd like to add. Most hobby musicians never played them.

@kieranmcgee3610 3 жыл бұрын

Paul doesn't make lesson videos, he makes lesson movies!!

@jasonbrackstone 3 жыл бұрын

Great video Paul, thanks for the continued video content. Love the channel, and you have really helped an old man get the best out of playing.

@alexweller1262 3 жыл бұрын

Yes @jarvisguitar well done dude!! 👌💪

@drothberg3 3 жыл бұрын

I made up a similar exercise but skipped the quintuplets. That’s the hardest one.

@AnonymousCowardly 3 жыл бұрын

Ha! I saw the title and "rhythm pyramid" was the first thing that popped into my mind. My guitar teacher made me practice it.

@eljhmt 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for giving us this rhythm challenge Paul! I can’t wait to get started :D

@jimijames27 3 жыл бұрын

This looks fun. Can’t wait to try it! Love your channel.

@LuisCorreadAlmeida 3 жыл бұрын

Check out Wynton Marsalis Autumn Leaves in his 1987 Columbia release Standard Time Vol 1

@Jamsville 3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha yeah, it's basically this exercise but turned into an arrangement!

@biharcourt 3 жыл бұрын

Coolest, most stylish KZfaq guitar teacher!! 😎 That's all I'm here to say!

@luckierthanluke9026 3 жыл бұрын

I love the intro you did! Great work😁

@no3rdseat 3 жыл бұрын

Man, you've really upped your game Paul! Production values and content are through the roof! Great video! :)

@thomasbyrne7372 3 жыл бұрын

Where this exercise really gets tricky is when you try to jump around the divisions. Hopping from 2 to 5 to 3 to 4 to 7 to 2.

@Fig_8 3 жыл бұрын

Damn, I can't do it perfectly, and I was just drumming

@MassimilianoSarigu 3 жыл бұрын

"Resist clickbait!" :-D

@ProphayniaX 3 жыл бұрын

Paul is the lightbulb guy for me. I’ve been fiddling around with guitar since 1978 And he still makes lightbulbs go off friggin awesome

@kjgas6945 3 жыл бұрын

Loved your show!

@tirthanair1507 3 жыл бұрын

Lol I really can’t play such a simple exercise...!!😂🙈

@maffooo2040 3 жыл бұрын

@Peter Martins theyre just quintuplets then sextuplets, quintuplets are quite hard at first, but sextuplets are very easy if you know triplets.

@celinefivez3709 3 жыл бұрын

Not yet😜😂

@krk064 3 жыл бұрын

I had to do this as a picking exercise given to me maybe a month into taking lessons... It was painful then but hey, it was all worth it to be able to prove that random person on Instagram wrong am I right?

@TinOrcen 3 жыл бұрын

Man, that intro! :D I feel like it's getting better with each video. Good work with the editing !

@SLASHMPI 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this video, it's really excellent

@ujaan15 3 жыл бұрын

How meta is it that the clickbait title got me to click on this video (I didn't notice the inverted commas)... I should be asleep now.

@c_s_b_9_4 3 жыл бұрын

"inverted commas" you mean the quotation marks? lol

@ujaan15 3 жыл бұрын

@@c_s_b_9_4 they’re known differently based on where you are from 😅

@GeorgeSPAMTindle 3 жыл бұрын

@@ujaan15 They're not known differently. Inverted commas are 'single commas at the top of the script', whereas quotation marks are "doubled commas at the top of the script". They serve different purposes and are not interchangeable. The quotation marks used in the title for this video are correct, as Paul was quoting a title of a tweet by another person. Punctuation can be a nightmare, but that is no excuse to not get it right; or even worse, avoid it altogether. Try using a question mark when you ask a question, and the misuse of the ellipsis isn't particularly good to see either. Work on it, you will get there eventually.

@supplant9124 3 жыл бұрын

u mean quotation marks? Lmao

@TechMetalRules 3 жыл бұрын

The "toughest" part for most would be going from fours to fives, but as Guthrie Govan says, "Ineffective Telemarketing".

@BrandochGarage 3 жыл бұрын

Very nice! I like that fender !

@Sadowsky46 3 жыл бұрын

Paul, you are the best teacher! ! 👍

@jitendrasolomon7879 3 жыл бұрын

"I can't play this because i don't have a guitar like his" - Me on my first day playing guitar

@Ryan-op2ng 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly ! mom buy me a Fender so I can play like this!

@zolin6840 3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking: wait I already played this once, I know that. And then I remembered it is the bass drum pattern of the Tool song The Grudge at 1:12 of the song. Edit: what a coincidence that Paul plays the exercise the first time also at that timestamp. Too bad my comment probably will be buried.

@alainjoseph3994 3 жыл бұрын

love your videos man for real

@benjamink3618 3 жыл бұрын

What a cool video Mr Paul, I like it👍😆

@Justin_Gonsalves 3 жыл бұрын

As if wielding Thor's hammer wasn't enough, Captain America is playing a guitar now!

@DavidOakesMusic 3 жыл бұрын

More like 99% of guitarists don't care about this exercise and just have fun playing.

@PaulDavids 3 жыл бұрын

Why not do an exercise and also enjoy it? It's not opposites.

@jcdelacruz6040 3 жыл бұрын

Owww that is cool man..thanks for sharing💕

@gustavoloebel 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing video dude! i laughed and cried after trying that lolol. You rock!

@ExposingEvil_ 3 жыл бұрын

I can only do quarters and eighths gonna be honest, who here is with me?

@marialuciaandradecantarino2375 3 жыл бұрын

Before watching:"Are you challenging me?" After watching:"I can't play this"

@v42dyk36 3 жыл бұрын

I'll try this Sir Paul. Ty❤

@korento3000 3 жыл бұрын

You are really the ideal YT teacher/educator. Excellent content, good humour, positive, and well produced. Fantastic teaching. Keep making videos! I'd love videos giving tips on how to go about writing songs that you can i) sing while playing, in a way that sounds smooth and professional but still expresses your own musical vision; ii) double with another guitar (Kings of Convenience style) or instrument, like the bass or drums.

@jenspahl8357 3 жыл бұрын

I failed at triplets, always ended up in a shuffle, not "even triplets"

@t3hgir 3 жыл бұрын

Think "trip-puh-let"

@InventorZahran 3 жыл бұрын

A shuffle is basically triplets, but with the middle note of each triplet removed.

@comrad_dytar8633 3 жыл бұрын

"99% of you can't play this simple exercise" Well, "simple" for this man doesn't really say much, for all i know it's probably the hardest challenge i've ever encountered

@streetwiseguitar5113 3 жыл бұрын

Jaysus Paul, those were a lot of shots you did to make the first scene! Hats off to you!!!!! Lots of work!

@federicozabatta1612 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Paul! I know that exercise for a long time (even I keep practising it). But I'd learnt it with a simple "melody". 8th notes: A-B-A-C / A-B-A-C Triplets: A-B-C-A-C-D / A-B-C-A-C-D 16th notes: A-B-C-D-A-C-D-Eb / A-B-C-D-A-C-D-Eb Quintuplets: A-B-C-D-F#-A-C-D-Eb-F# / A-B-C-D-F#-A-C-D-Eb-F# Sextuplets: A-B-C-D-Ex-F#-A-C-D-Eb-F#-G / A-B-C-D-Ex-F#-A-C-D-Eb-F#-G

@RC32Smiths01 3 жыл бұрын

Not all things appear as they seem in the world of music and guitar

@NihalNair 3 жыл бұрын

wait how many guitars do you have!?

@erianasvow9744 3 жыл бұрын

yes

@thisiswhoiam3467 3 жыл бұрын

Not enough!!! 😅

@CheffreyCook 3 жыл бұрын

Your editing is so great just gotta tell you 🤯🤯

@AlfieDavisVlogs 3 жыл бұрын

Your videos are an absolute joy to watch.

@AkosKovacs.Author.Musician 3 жыл бұрын

It's called syncopation. Al Di Meola was talkin about that a long time now.

@mr.person555 3 жыл бұрын

This is not syncopation, it's just subdivision changes. Syncopation has more to due with the rhythmic accents of the notes where they may fall on "off beats" but generally still on the same grid/subdivision.

@noshredzone271 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Paul. I appreciate all your tutorials and passing on some great insights into the world of guitar. You and many others have inspired me to pass on what I’ve learned over the years. I have finally launched my tutorial channel and hope that it can offer the same level of quality yours does. Thank you so much.

@jclark6895 3 жыл бұрын

Nice video editing!

@ULGuitar 3 жыл бұрын

I am now trying to show my friends with first basic with many song of practice the basic rhythm... thanks for this video😍

@ARCHDEACONMUSIC Жыл бұрын

Awesome exercise Paul! I've been playing guitar for 32 years and I'm a performing musician and the better I get the more I'm realizing it's all about the RHYTHM in music! I put the metronome on 70 and I was able to do it on the 2nd try, which isn't bad. I think I'm going to incorporate this into my practice and make sure I nail this exercise. I've been working on quintuplets a lot lately as it's such a cool & different sounding grouping of notes & it's a fun challenge to keep increasing the speed with it. I'm actually considering writing a song in quintuplets as well as that would be totally different. Anyway, always great to watch your videos bro! I've been putting in about 4 hours every day practicing my lead playing for the past 2 months and I'm definitely enjoying the process as that is most of life. Thanks so much for all you do as it's great to watch your videos and learn from you as you are an AWESOME musician and seem like such a genuine person as well! You deserve all the recognition & having so many people subscribe to your channel! BTW I saw that your friend Rotem Sivan is playing at The Blue Note in NYC as I went there last night with some friends to watch some live music as John Popper (Blues Traveler), Paul Schaeffer, DJ Logic, and friends were performing. Much respect & keep rockin'! :)

@lkkhi 3 жыл бұрын

Good techniques training ! 👍

@diegonapoles2469 3 жыл бұрын

you really upped the production value here. Respect.

@craigryallful 3 жыл бұрын

One of my warm ups to a metronome&backing tracks

@DaveSheremata 3 жыл бұрын

No problem.... started off playing orchestra drums in the mid eighties. :)

@DevanBishop 3 жыл бұрын

Great exercise and great development of the exercise. Just being able to take any exercise and develop it in multiple places will challenge any musician. Great video!

@hilaryhahn 3 жыл бұрын

Veru complicated exercice indeed !!! Thumb up !!

@matthewjamestaylor 3 жыл бұрын

"Make the metronome sound great." That is such a strong piece of advice. Great video. Cheers.

@dr.debajyotibose2928 3 жыл бұрын

Good stuff man.

@billvilla7799 3 жыл бұрын

Love you videos Paul...most I don't even try. I am a hacker at strumming, just love watching people who are really good at what they do!

@waterpankace8074 3 жыл бұрын

Love it keep makin the vids

@ralual 3 жыл бұрын

Incredible intro :-D 👏👏

@mircomeniconi 3 жыл бұрын

what you said about the feeling is very important !

@williamreid7388 3 жыл бұрын

The production quality of your videos never ceases to amaze, truly a multi talent

@doc221978 3 жыл бұрын

This is a great lesson.... It was a rudimentary lesson for drummers 30 years ago. Because of that, switching timing is pretty easy for me. I believe every musician could benefit from a little time with percussion.

@BernieWonka 3 жыл бұрын

Nice approach 🖖

@mansisawant6185 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Paul,the exercise was beautiful and also triggered my sense of timing in a very good state it was awesome bro. I have a request to make a video on how to perform live especially if you don't have any band with you and you are not a good singer,what songs and techniques will you prefer to nail that show. Please help. 🤘🤘