I’m not sure if I’m using the right term here but I’ve been having a hard time following the tempo bar on the tablature in the lesson videos. To me it looks like it speeds up and slows down, rather than flowing steady. It might just be an optical illusion?
Thankfully I was in marching band a few life times ago, so I just find it easier to read the notes and count.
As soon as I try to just follow the moving bar the speed changes throw my concentration.
I’ve noticed the same… It reminds me to count it myself rather than rely on the bar’s position, sometimes watching Josh’s finger on his plucking hand is a better visual cue.
Thanks for the confirmation!
I shall try to just ignore it from here on out. Thankfully I can read the rhythms, although I’m far from knowing the notes on the bass clef and knowing where they are on the bass.
Paging @JoshFossgreen for input
Hey @michail71 ! yeah, good catch. It’s a weird thing - sheet music isn’t normally written to be evenly spaced by note value, but that makes the bar look lumpy. Working on a way to split the difference. 
This can happen on Guitar Pro (I think) also, for example because of what is happening in the bar you may get 4 or 6 bars on a line rather than 8 and it will speed up or slow down
That tempo bar does kind of suck for the reasons you pointed out, but I feel like making it better might make it easier to get through without learning to count time properly.
At this point i feel like reading the rhythm on the notes and counting is really the only way to go. When I started in person lessons a few weeks ago and started seeing (for example) “4 and a” rhythms in real music it felt like a real blind spot in the B2B program, especially since getting those rhythms right is so much more important than getting the notes right.
Figuring that last part out is part of why I stopped working on my little sight reading tool, until I can figure out how to make the rhythm side of things work a whole lot better but it might help you with this:
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Do you have an example?
Not that I can post
Home now, here you go
war pigs pg5.pdf (72.8 KB)
Ah, cool!
It is also on customsforge, so I can extract the GP5 there and test it on Guitar Pro as well as Tonelib Jam!
The resulting PDF:
war pigs pg5.pdf (72.8 KB)
Well, it HAS to do that - in order to wait out the duration of the note that just was played. The “distance” in time after an eighth note (and before the next note event) is decidedly shorter than after a halve note etc.
The only way it could flow steadily was if your entire piece consisted of notes of the same lengths, all of them, and only those.
The only way it could flow steadily was if your entire piece consisted of notes of the same lengths, all of them, and only those.
The alternative would be to have the amount of space between each note vary with the note duration. Something like this:
but with the drum track hidden
Yeah, that might work… but, basically you then trade space for duration and that extra space makes the scores probably harder to read (and a bit silly looking perhaps).
But, it could be a compromise for sure!
Guitar Pro (and I’m sure other editors) do actually allow for pieces to be put together in this way. But, as has been said, it can result in very spread out notation and therefore potentially a lot more ‘page turning’.
Didn’t know the question would get so much traction. I see the difficulty.
I’m just concentrating on counting now. I get a little confused watching the bar.
I actually start off the lessons now just familiarizing with the sheet music and commit it to memory before the lesson. That way I can concentrate on what Josh is saying.
I do exactly the same for the same reason.
