Jun 24
This is Stage 2, Lesson 6 of Justin’s Beginner Guitar Course. This video shows you how to tap your foot. Crazy I know… Seems so easy but lots of folk don’t get it quite right… Taught by Justin Sandercoe. Justin’s Beginners GuitarCourse is all free - and all the notes, tabs, neck diagrams and other helpful stuff is all found on the web site. The videos are all embedded in the pages, so using the web site makes it a lot easier to use the course. Hope you like it! Full support at the web …
June 24th, 2009 at 8:50 am
sex?
June 24th, 2009 at 8:50 am
I tried tapping my toes with shoes and socks on…my big toe’s nail gathered a lot of sock lint under it and I had to dig it out with a nail file…it smelled like butt!
June 24th, 2009 at 8:50 am
practise not tapping! I remember Yehudi Menuhin telling me that energy used foot-tapping should be used elsewhere!!
June 24th, 2009 at 8:50 am
Your sofa sure is small!
June 24th, 2009 at 8:50 am
and when you get really good you can alternate tap
June 24th, 2009 at 8:50 am
very helpfull and informative thx.
June 24th, 2009 at 8:50 am
You are right. It is tricky for me. I try to tap with my left foot but my right foot always wants to be the tapping foot. I have always noticed other musicians tapping with the left foot and wondered. Thank you Justin. You are the greatest.
June 24th, 2009 at 8:50 am
nice shoes!!!!
June 24th, 2009 at 8:50 am
Hi justin, thanks alot for the info, i think alot of people dont realise how hard it is to play and tap the same beat at the same time.
Great tutorial!!!
June 24th, 2009 at 8:50 am
haha, as a guitar and drum player, It’s a habit to tap my food to bass drum beats in the car while listening to my iPod.
June 24th, 2009 at 8:50 am
this helped lol and it was funny!
June 24th, 2009 at 8:50 am
I am curious. how do you tap do a blues rhytm?
That always feels awkward to me…
June 24th, 2009 at 8:50 am
“it’s a good thing to do when you are in a band or playing with yourself.” lol
srry couldn’t resist. great job btw
June 24th, 2009 at 8:50 am
I’m not sure if I answer your question properly but here it goes:
Let’s say a song has 60 (Beats per minute)
If you were to tap your foot to the rythm of that song, it means you tap your foot 60 times per minute, with the same amount of time between each tap. So in this case you tap your foot, wait 1/60 of a minute (in this case 1 second) and then tap again. Now u shouldn’t have to calculate the time gap between taps, but when u hear music, U should be able to feel the ‘beat’ or rythm.
GL!
June 24th, 2009 at 8:50 am
haha yea I noticed too
awesome fail 
June 24th, 2009 at 8:50 am
Sweet shoes.
June 24th, 2009 at 8:50 am
I can think of bunch of my friends that play guitar but have absolutley no rythmn at all.
June 24th, 2009 at 8:50 am
Ive spent years in band class tapping with my right foot while playing trumpet. Changing that for guitar becomes very awkward.
June 24th, 2009 at 8:50 am
Most songs are in 4/4 time. That means that there are 4 beats to a bar. You tap your foot on every quarter. So every 4 taps you do is equal to one bar. So, if you’re strumming eighth notes, you would tap you foot on each down stroke.
June 24th, 2009 at 8:50 am
I agree with your comment around 40 seconds Justin. When playing with yourself a good sense of rythmn is absoloutely crucial.
June 24th, 2009 at 8:50 am
Hi Justin,
I’ve some trouble with keeping rythm simply because I don’t know how it works!
I’m a bit confused. Every song to my knowledge has different rythm, in this exercise am I suppose to ‘feel’ the rythm out with my foot?
June 24th, 2009 at 8:50 am
nice NIKE’S!!!
June 24th, 2009 at 8:50 am
What I do is cross my left leg over my right (lady-style) and hold rest the guitar on it, which allows me to hold it closer to my body, so I can still tap my right foot and it there’s a lot less movement. I dunno if I’m just weird or something
June 24th, 2009 at 8:50 am
duh you noodle, im a justin enthusiast and have watched the video on his maton court jester, but i dont remember it having a pickgaurd and i think it is darker in this, so im thinking he got a repaint because he said he had damaged the paintjob in the video
June 24th, 2009 at 8:50 am
yeaaah, sweeeet nikes there!