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I wouldn't consider 3/4 to be "non standard". My advice would be to find recordings of pieces in 3/4 and count along to them. The "oom-pah-pah" pattern is a very common way to arrange a 3/4 backing. …

When you can do it easily with pieces in 4/4 or 3/4 with drums or strong rhythm, move on to pieces with more unusual time signatures, or pieces in which the rhythm isn't signposted by drums or strong rhythmic …

Only when you've got the rhythm down, should you try fingering melodies or switching strings. A metronome is likely to help. Start very slow, and only speed up when you're ready. …

Try playing piano in that rhythm. Then make the switch to thinking in 4/4, with each beat being 3 metronome ticks. One-and-a two-and-a three-and-a four-and-a. …

They way to avoid giving offence is to frame it as your problem, not theirs - "I'm having some trouble with the rhythm here, I wonder if you can help me..." … Or if they're not capable of sticking to a rhythm: you need to be very patient with them, and they need to practice with a drum machine (or a metronome that has a different click for the first beat of …

We also tend to like tempos which match things we can do with our legs -- slower than a stroll hardly feels like a rhythm, faster than a sprint and we mentally recalibrate to half-tempo. … But bars of 3/4 tend to come in pairs (One two three, Two two three.) so we're back to that walking rhythm. …

It's not necessarily the drummer's job to set/maintain tempo, and some drummers get a bit sniffy when they're blamed for the band losing time. Who's to say the lead guitarist follows the drummer, and …

If the time signatures match, you can play any tune to any rhythm. There is no right and wrong, only what you feel sounds good. Debussy to a disco beat? Led Zeppelin to a reggae beat? … It might work with a basic rock rhythm (snares on the up-beats), or with a Latin rhythm - but that's just my subjective view. …

When you've settled on a rhythm you like, stop the recording, and tap out the rhythm a bit more, to get used to how it sounds. Perhaps sing along. … Once you're comfortable with the tapped rhythm, move to a guitar and try strumming the same rhythm. Especially where there are notes in quick succession, consider making the second note an upstroke. …

Perhaps your issue is that you're asking for a"full" sound, when really the choppy guitar lines from James Brown style funk and Nile Rogers style disco are actually quite sparse and weedy in isolation …

If after all of this, you still don't feel the rhythm, if may be that your brain just doesn't work that way. Some people are colourblind; some people are tone deaf; some people are rhythm-deaf. … Without a sense of rhythm, it will be difficult or impossible to play in an ensemble. But you can perform certain styles of music solo. …

Another way to develop your internal metronome is by attentively listening to music, concentrating on the rhythm. Clap along, play "air-drums", or dance. …

The computer programs recommended in other answers are good, but if you don't want to be reliant on a computer, there are standalone options. Pedals Some guitar multi-effect pedals include some pres …

However, as Wheat says in his comment, keeping to a rhythm is almost essential when playing in a group with other musicians. …

For example, the repeating rhythm guitar riff on Howlin' Wolf's Killing Floor is almost completely monophonic; single notes played on two strings (although, it requires speedy bi-directional picking, which …