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Rhythm & timing · Advanced · 6 min

Syncopated Sixteenths

Keep your hand moving in sixteenths and let only the written hits sound.

How to play it
  1. Move your strumming hand down and up on every sixteenth, all the time, even when you are not hitting.
  2. Let the strings sound only on the cued hits. Mute everything else with your fretting hand resting lightly.
  3. The syncopated hits on the 'a' of the beat are the hard ones. Count 1-e-and-a out loud at first.

What the coach checks: Timing of each attack. It cannot tell a muted scratch from a chord.

Goal92 BPM · 80%
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Rhythm player

Hear the rhythm

1234

Tap any hit to hear it. Four clicks count you in.

Your practice room

Keep a steady pulse

Audio-attack timing feedback. This check does not identify chords or distinguish every background sound from a strum. Use a quiet room and visual beats.

This checkpoint needs 92 BPM or faster and the required accuracy. Slower Play attempts still produce practice scores.

Exercise map · 24 targets
  1. 1. 1 · ↓Bar 1 · beat 1
  2. 2. a · ↑Bar 1 · beat 1.75
  3. 3. & · ↓Bar 1 · beat 2.5
  4. 4. 3 · ↓Bar 1 · beat 3
  5. 5. a · ↑Bar 1 · beat 3.75
  6. 6. & · ↓Bar 1 · beat 4.5
  7. 7. 1 · ↓Bar 2 · beat 1
  8. 8. a · ↑Bar 2 · beat 1.75
  9. 9. & · ↓Bar 2 · beat 2.5
  10. 10. 3 · ↓Bar 2 · beat 3
  11. 11. a · ↑Bar 2 · beat 3.75
  12. 12. & · ↓Bar 2 · beat 4.5
  13. 13. 1 · ↓Bar 3 · beat 1
  14. 14. a · ↑Bar 3 · beat 1.75
  15. 15. & · ↓Bar 3 · beat 2.5
  16. 16. 3 · ↓Bar 3 · beat 3
  17. 17. a · ↑Bar 3 · beat 3.75
  18. 18. & · ↓Bar 3 · beat 4.5
  19. 19. 1 · ↓Bar 4 · beat 1
  20. 20. a · ↑Bar 4 · beat 1.75
  21. 21. & · ↓Bar 4 · beat 2.5
  22. 22. 3 · ↓Bar 4 · beat 3
  23. 23. a · ↑Bar 4 · beat 3.75
  24. 24. & · ↓Bar 4 · beat 4.5

Chord names and stroke directions are visual guidance. Rhythm scoring measures attack timing.

1 · ↓Target 1 of 24 · attack when the cue lights up

Keep counting through the spaces. Chord names and stroke directions are visual guides; only attack timing is measured.

Bar 1 of 5 · beat 1 of 4

1234

Tune first. Audio stays on this device.

Why this drill

Funk rhythm guitar is a constant sixteenth-note motion where most strokes miss the strings. The groove lives in which strokes connect, and that timing is exactly what the microphone can check.