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In this week’s guitar lesson, I’ll give you some ideas for rhythm fills that you can incorporate into your rhythm playing. You’ll be playing the chord changes over a slow and soulful jam track by adding bluesy fill licks.
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Just to be first for once!! Great to see that great ES-335 again though, Brian!! Jim C.
Jimbo did you spot my reply to your65 post?
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Love these rhythm lessons! Thanks Brian
Brian I think this a great fundamental lesson, I am a weak rhythm player but improving thanks to you. So for me the more you can show and tell us about playing rhythm the better.
thanks it will be very important to me for sure. JohnStrat
Bits of this is strongly reminding me of some music I used to listen to, can anyone place some of the licks? Could it be from the Grateful Dead?
Maybe a Franklin’s Tower in that first part – 🤔
Funny, after doing part 1 of the lesson I was just jamming/improvising on my own with it and I slipped right into Dear Mr. Fantasy (just replace the Dm with an F) which the Dead used to cover.
Sounds like a lot of David Allen Coe stuff in there….first thing I thought when I heard this lesson
Outstanding. Diggin’ it !!!
Yep, I definitely hear a bit of the Dead. Looking forward to this one!
Hi Brian. You just keep turning up with really valuable stuff. Thanks
Brian, the last month has been the biggest light bulb moment ever for your teaching. You have talked about not playing the entire chords for several years. It all makes sense now. You just made the fret board much smaller today.
I hope my callouses can take the punishment this weekend. Lots of work to do.
Thanks, Brian.
Another gem Brian. Every time I see that 335 it makes me wish I had put mine away for a few months and came back to it instead of selling it.
Real nice lesson ! JamTrack is out of this world. Thanks Brian for another outstanding lesson. You must have a Muse hovering around you everyday to come up with lessons like that.
Beautiful lesson! The way You phrased those licks in different rhythms .
Thanks
very cool lesson nice rhythm
Brian,
The Thriller session Guitarist was Steve Lukather, i believe.
Regards.
Really awesome!
Brian, Reminds me a lot of Sultans of Swing Dire Straits. Great lesson. Keep up the good works. Dave You just keep giving what I really need!!!
Nice one Brian. Light bulbs flashing everywhere.
Hi Brian, this is very good … for a particular reason. Every guitar player (starting years) get “stained” with pentonic paint. I think it might even be feasible to start a tag section, with a key switching category, and perhaps do a few more lesson types with this dynamic …. not always of course, as we would not want to lose the biginner. I smell a cross roads here, in a sense where you own playing is becoming sophisticated … and at some point you will need to split lessons (Intermediate to Advanced and Alround simple fun.) Regardless … WELL DONE .. love your work …
Just got to this today and love it! This is connecting the dots with simple triad shapes all over the neck. I hear some Dire Straits and Steve Winwood in there and also some chord changes used in blues rock. Thanks for another great lesson Brian!
Cheers Brian.
Love the way the on screen tab view section does things slightly differently, dropping the odd note or playing a note or two in a different position. Not sure if that’s intentional but it gets me thinking, keeps me on my toes, reminding me to keep things fluid and not follow you to the letter.
Great lesson.
Peter
HI Brian great lesson as always. I have a problem i am only getting the first bit where you play the lesson first. The premium members lesson is completely blank along with the slow version and also the tab. Can you help George.
this sounds like it’s related to your browser. The solution that usually works for people is to close all opened tabs in your browser, close it, and restart it. If for some reason that doesn’t work (and it should), you could always try using a different browser, i.e. Google Chrome, Firefox, etc.
Hi Brain thank you for another lesson. I’m having trouble for like 4 months streaming the second part of the lesson. I’ve tried Chrome and safari with no luck
Hi Brain thank you for another lesson. I’m having trouble for like 4 months streaming the second part of the lesson. I’ve tried Chrome and safari with no luck.
I had a similar situation, but when I cleared my cache and re-booted, it hasn’t happened again. Good luck!
Hi Brian,
These last few lessons have helped ignite a lot of light bulbs. It’s been especially helpful as you emphasize where the 3rd, 5th and root (of course) of the triads are as you move between chords, licks and backing track. I bought a lockdown ukulele a few weeks ago and impatiently went to playing before looking at chord shapes. That was actually a blessing because you can get by just sort of play strings 1-3 as triads. You just change the shape based on which of the strings is your root. I can see why George Harrison was fond of passing out ukuleles after dinner for a bit of a strum.
Fantastic series of lessons, Brian.
Greg
Hi Brian,
especially the last 3 lessons, just great; so much basic information, many thanks. A bit of fear of theory has been taken.
Greetings from Germany
Michael
Hi Brian.
Thanks for kind of hitting the refresh button on your lessons. The last few have been very insightful. EP364 is super fun and ties it all together.
Hearing a hybrid of Jerry and Mark Knopfler at their chicken-pickin best- Love it…
This is a great lesson as always, I love the funky but slow paced rhythm!
For those of you having trouble with the videos, maybe it’s related to ad blocker extensions in your browsers? Not sure but it’s worth checking out, maybe you can try disabling them on this site.
can the second part be considered as shifting to Dm aeolian mode?
Brian, this is why I just renewed for a 3rd year in a row. The lesson on the JJ Cale – like music sold me completely. Never thought you could top that one. This didn’t top it but it sure rivals it. Love it, man. And you are the most patient, thourough teacher out there. Best investment on the web (believe me, I’ve watched and looked and listened and bought dvds, etc – don’t stop, man. Jay in Appalachian Foothills.
Another winner, Brian. I never leave one of your lessons without some revelation. By the way, I too have a cherry red 335 … mine is a c. 1970 with a trap tail, however. It rarely gets played these days, as I am mostly acoustic, but when I see yours, I get inspired to get her out … she plays like a dream.
The previous two lessons on Triads and harmonized 3rds and 6ths fabulous and I really learned a lot and was able to pickup both pieces faster than I thought I would. When I heard this one I loved it but told my wife that I probably wouldn’t be able to learn it. I did however give it a try and with your beautiful teaching skills and the tools on your site I surprised myself and I’m already playing it!! I’ve been a premium member for a few years and it is worth every penny. My skill level has really improved and now I am looking back at some of the previous lessons that I loved but I thought were way beyond my skill level and giving them a try. Thank you so much.
Bob Wheeler
Hi Brian,
Can it be that bar 4 is tabed out differently than you explain it?
Great stuff anyway
Juan
When playing the harmonised part in Bar 10 , it sounds fine but wouldn’t you have a Bb rather than a B given the relative major if F??
I see now…………………we’re supposed to be in the key of G (sorta) lol.
Wow….this piece has got so much feeling and soul. It’s playing in my head a lot. Really appreciate learning this.
I have a yearly premium account and it will not allow me to access lessons, can you help?
Beautiful
Brian! just beautiful. Thank you!
I just subscribed and am really learning a lot from these lessons! Definitely switching to the annual after this first month. Thank you for including the theory so it makes sense instead of just saying “play the 3rd string on the 4th fret” like so many other instructors do.
Brian how are you getting that excellent tone?
Awesome composing… just what the doctor ordered…..
Fantastic lesson thanks – it is really helpful to see how to move through the chords and add some licks!