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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn 3 rhythm techniques that you can apply to any style. Use these rhythm ideas when improvising rhythm.
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Slow Walkthrough - Rhythm
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Such a great lesson. Thank you Brian!
Brian,
This looks to be a very helpful rythm lesson well done.
JohnStrat
This is just great Brian! Absolutely love it.
Fantastic Brian. Can’t wait to get into this one. Straight onto the Favourites and ‘To Do’ list! 🥸🎸🥸
Hi Brian. Could you please add an MP3 of just the backing track. That would be fantastic. Thanks. 🥸🎸🥸
Ok, I added – a normal version and slow version with no guitar – just bass and drums.
Thanks heaps Brian. I really appreciate all you do, you’re helping players all around the world improve their guitar playing and music understandings. All the best! 🥸🎸🥸
As always, I’m really looking forward to getting into this lesson! Thanks Brian
Brian, so seemingly basic, yet so right on. Just what I needed Thanks , Ron.
A Fantastic lesson, (2 in 1). It has such a great feel to it, just wonderful. You’ve done it again Brian.
Question: Can you play relative minor triad over a Dom 7 chord?
Or does chord have to be a regular Major triad?
Thank you.
Margaret
Great rhythm lesson! i m crazy about it. Thank you so much.
Thank you Brain for a great lesson.
Would like to know can this be played on Acoustic with the same feeling as Electric.
This is fantastic. Started off thinking this was not going to be so easy as I don’t play a lot of rhythm guitar. Generally just stick to a blues shuffle when I play some rhythm and have been looking for a challenge and something new. Taking me awhile to get the groove and the timing and will be a longer term project for me to put it all together but already so much fun playing even with just a couple of the riffs learnt. Thank you once again.
The first two things I do on Saturday morning is to grab a coffee and open Active Melody. This is such a great tune and very instructional using 6th chords and 9th chords. Having fun and learning a lot. Thanks Brian.
This is a great lesson! I keep forgetting the 6 to 9 slide, and yet it just works so well!
I can play all the major and minor chords, but I keep forgetting about the 6 and 9 shapes.
Thank you Brian!
What a way to start the weekend. I’ll have to make room in my personal-favorite locker for this little gem!!
WOW !!! We get the whole package. A bag full of Rhythm tricks and Lead licks.
Brian, the insight into using notes from the Relative Minor Chord of the Major Chord opens up endless possibilities.
Just when I thought I wouldn’t learn anything new in this lesson you reminded me of that seventh chord fingering off the ninth chord triad. I always seem to at least glean a nugget even in the more basic lessons.
great lesson..i am remembering the 6 and 9 chord and relative minor ideas from other lessons but forgot how useful they can be.
.gonna hafta work on this in different keys..and review some older lessons on these concepts
but very worth the effort..i think..
Great lesson. I hope you keep adding more Western swing elements.
Agree. Would like to see a series on Eldon Shamblin style. Western Swing forever! Hillbilly jazz.
Great rhythm & lead lesson. Simple and yet comprehensive. Brian, we get a lot for the money and really appreciate it!!!
That sliding of a 6th shape down two frets to get the 9th chord counts as one of the many cool things I’ve learned since joining in January this year. Still trying to get my head around why it works exactly so I’ll just keep doing it and figure it out in detail later by analyzing the chord tones and chord relationships. I’ve been doing the similarly miraculous diminished chord three fret thing for years but was unaware of the 6 – 9 two fret relationship.
Thanks Brian for another cool and useful lesson. 👍
Another great lesson and a lot of fun. Your lessons are almost perfect for my speed. At 51, I will never be a fast player, but I am improving! That’s a nice guitar by the way. And – wow – what a big record collection!
Awesome lesson!
Thanks for continuing to help our rhythm playing. The rootless dominant chord on the top 3 strings is a great addition to the tool box.
John
This is a great lesson, thanks Brian! I have a feeling you might like this, it’s not too far removed from this lesson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoNeEkIqL6Y
Thanks for that, Don. That is TASTY!
Love the backing track minus guitar. If it’s an easy mix, keep it up
I like this lesson.
Very good. I can use it!
PS: Special thanks for the useful backing tracks in detail.
Thanks for this one , Brian.. my only rhythm style for years has been your basic HonkyTonk shuffle. Time to swing it up a little bit!
Bruce
Love that style of playing Brian.
Beautiful chord voicings. These have become my favorite chords. The 6th and 9th voicings add so much color and bring such “class” to a standard blues progression. BTW: What’s the name of the chord you end the song on? Have I seen that in “I Want You/She’s So Heavy by the Beatles? Anyways, fantastic lesson!
Great bluesy swing lesson. Love it. Well done.
I am really enjoying learning this one because I have always wanted to be able to play rhythm. This lesson, along with so many others that have been put out has really been helping me with how to think about the chord voicings and how they relate to one another. I don’t know if there are ever any “lightbulb” moments for me, its just one tiny little thing at a time.
I liked the little note on how to deduce the 6 chord from the 1 chord easily. That will be something for me to take forward for sure.
Hi Brian, that’s really a good lesson. I also do like your guitar – what is it?
Really enjoying the lesson.. This is simple and effective, building on what you’ve shown us. Love it.
definitely not 🙂
sorry wrong place, I am enjoying it!
Am I the only one who can’t get the rhythm to play past the first two bars?
definitely not 🙂
Is it my imagination or my hearing loss (jk) that the No Guitar track and the No Guitar Slow are almost the same tempo? I really can’t tell the difference. In other lessons, the slow-down is quite noticeable.
However, brilliant as usual.
Hello Brian, what guitar are you playing?
Larry, the No Guitar track and the No Guitar Slow track are almost the same tempo. To my ear the bass and drums on the slow track are slightly slower-just !
Well “easy”, I am studying this lesson quite a while now. But like all the lessons it is nice to do and … yes after some time it comes 🙂
Hi Brian I keep meaning to leave a comment. I’ve been with you for a year now. I have progressed so much from your lessons. You have very informative lessons which are clear and interesting. What I love about you approach is that all your content is original and unique. Each piece of music your create and that really helps me because I don’t get caught up in the head space of trying to sound exactly like some famous song. You have really thought this out. I commend you on all you hard work and effort to make us all better at guitar. It’s working!