Best way to learn complex/odd time signatures for guitar?

Question

Playing with other musicians? Playing along to bands that play in odd time signatures? Checking out drum lessons(such as Mike Portney of Dream Theater)?

I mean, I would venture to say these are all good things to do, but I actually want to know about them and how they work. Any good sites that really explain odd signatures, polyrhythms, things like that?

Answer 1

Definitely do some independent study. If you know how to count them before joining other musicians that would greatly help.



http://www.guitar9.com/columnist353.html



This looks pretty decent. I don't know how familiar you are with regular time signatures but you need a solid grounding there first.





~Lisa

Answer 2

Hey,

This course is even better than a personal guitar teacher http://www.goobypls.com/r/rd.asp?gid=554



the site has thousands of videos and well explained lessons, everything is explained step by step and it's easy to follow. I haven't found any better online training course elsewhere.

Answer 3

Download noteworthy composer. This program lets you to insert notes and listen to them. It helps a lot with complicated rhythms.

This program also lets to other things like compose and transfer midi files.