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Emphasizing the beat with a pumping rhythm guitar

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Emphasizing the beat with a pumping rhythm guitar

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- [Instructor] Sometimes you want to feel the pulse of the track, but the drums and base just aren't enough. Or sometimes they're not even there. If you have a strumming rhythm guitar, you can use your automation to make it pump to emphasize the beat. So right now let's do this on our track right here, and you'll see we have two acoustic guitars and they're subgrouped right here. Let's listen to the track, and this is the beginning of the song. ♫ A special day to celebrate your life is here ♫ A special day that happens only once - [Instructor] And we can make this a little more exciting by pumping the rhythm guitar to the beat. Now what I'm going to do first is I'm going to zoom in so you can see it. So again we're gonna look at this track right here. This is the subgroup and it has both of the rhythm guitars, both of the acoustic guitars. So, again, the first thing we're going to do is go to touch automation, and what that means once again is whenever we touch the fader, the…

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