re: Musicians - How do I teach a friend rhythm?

It sounds like he is thinking to hard about it and trying to force it. Rhythm is something you cannot force, you have to let it form naturally.

One thing that can help is find song of a band the he knows . Let him play with it but have him louder than the song so he can hear when he loses it. Get him to clear his mind and just play with out thinking about chord changes and just listen to the music . Hopefully after a lot of practice and patience, one day it will just "click"

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Start a metronome beat and have him close his eyes and start feeling the beat. Then, have him start tapping it out with his foot. Once he has that down, have him start strumming muted strings focusing only on right hand rhythm (assuming he's right handed) and not chords and changes. Finally, assuming he can do all of that perfectly, have him strum one chord on beat and then add a second chord and build more from there.

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That's as good a technique as there is. Good advice.