Play Blues Guitar 8: Advanced Rhythm Principles
Fire Up Your Blues Guitar Rhythm Chops with this Blues Learning Path Core Course
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Welcome to Play Blues Guitar 8: Advanced Rhythm Principles for late intermediate to advanced students of blues guitar.
This Blues Learning Path core course is presented by 5 top TrueFire educators: Robben Ford, Andy Timmons, Jeff Scheetz, David Blacker, and Brad Carlton.
The Advanced Rhythm Principles curriculum is comprised of select blues guitar lessons from the educators’ existing TrueFire course libraries.
Guitarists with advanced rhythm guitar skills write their own ticket with respect to paying or playing opportunities. Other musicians love to round out their rhythm section with solid, versatile rhythm guitarists. Pros will always get the most lucrative gigs, and amateurs will always get to play with the very best. The video guitar lessons in this core course will focus on strengthening and broadening your rhythm skills to an advanced level.
Play Blues Guitar 8: Advanced Rhythm Principles is organized into 2 sections. In the first section, you’ll tackle concepts like Guide Tones, Comping Principles and Motivic Development. Jazzy Blues is the focus of the second section where you will learn to swing and add some more interesting chords to your arsenal.
When you’ve completed the lessons here in Advanced Rhythm Principles, you’ll find more lessons focused on rhythm in Advanced Rhythm Approaches, also a Play Blues Guitar 8 core course.
The educators demonstrate all of the key examples over jam tracks (where and when applicable) to simulate a real-world application, in a musical context. All of the key examples are also tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes.
You’ll also get Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop or slow down the tab and notation as you work through the lessons. Plus, you’ll have all of the available jam tracks to work with on your own.
Take as much time as you need to work through each video guitar lesson before moving on to the next lesson. If you want to dig deeper or wider into any of the topics covered in this core course, check out the recommended supplementary courses in your learning path where you’ll find more examples, techniques and insight from top TrueFire educators.
Grab your guitar and let’s get started!
This Blues Learning Path core course is presented by 5 top TrueFire educators: Robben Ford, Andy Timmons, Jeff Scheetz, David Blacker, and Brad Carlton.
The Advanced Rhythm Principles curriculum is comprised of select blues guitar lessons from the educators’ existing TrueFire course libraries.
Guitarists with advanced rhythm guitar skills write their own ticket with respect to paying or playing opportunities. Other musicians love to round out their rhythm section with solid, versatile rhythm guitarists. Pros will always get the most lucrative gigs, and amateurs will always get to play with the very best. The video guitar lessons in this core course will focus on strengthening and broadening your rhythm skills to an advanced level.
Play Blues Guitar 8: Advanced Rhythm Principles is organized into 2 sections. In the first section, you’ll tackle concepts like Guide Tones, Comping Principles and Motivic Development. Jazzy Blues is the focus of the second section where you will learn to swing and add some more interesting chords to your arsenal.
When you’ve completed the lessons here in Advanced Rhythm Principles, you’ll find more lessons focused on rhythm in Advanced Rhythm Approaches, also a Play Blues Guitar 8 core course.
The educators demonstrate all of the key examples over jam tracks (where and when applicable) to simulate a real-world application, in a musical context. All of the key examples are also tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes.
You’ll also get Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop or slow down the tab and notation as you work through the lessons. Plus, you’ll have all of the available jam tracks to work with on your own.
Take as much time as you need to work through each video guitar lesson before moving on to the next lesson. If you want to dig deeper or wider into any of the topics covered in this core course, check out the recommended supplementary courses in your learning path where you’ll find more examples, techniques and insight from top TrueFire educators.
Grab your guitar and let’s get started!
What you'll learn
- Complex rhythmic techniques
- Advanced rhythm guitar skills
- Understand swing rhythm techniques
- Understand advanced rhythm guitar principles
- Develop personal rhythmic and harmonic style
Release date: 09/14/2016 • 2h 35m runtime
Sample lessons
Comping In G
Performance
Comping the Shuffle
Rhythm: Performance
Comping Breakdown
Rhythm: Demo
Jazzed Blues Chords
Chords: Demo
What's included
38 lessons • 19 charts • 15 Jam Tracks
Play Blues Guitar 8: Advanced Rhythm Principles
Welcome to Play Blues Guitar 8: Advanced Rhythm Principles for late intermediate to advanced students of blues guitar.
This Blues Learning Path core course is presented by 5 top TrueFire educators: Robben Ford, Andy Timmons, Jeff Scheetz, David Blacker, and Brad Carlton.
The Advanced Rhythm Principles curriculum is comprised of select blues guitar lessons from the educators' existing TrueFire course libraries.
Guitarists with advanced rhythm guitar skills write their own ticket with respect to paying or playing opportunities. Other musicians love to round out their rhythm section with solid, versatile rhythm guitarists. Pros will always get the most lucrative gigs, and amateurs will always get to play with the very best. The video guitar lessons in this core course will focus on strengthening and broadening your rhythm skills to an advanced level.
Play Blues Guitar 8: Advanced Rhythm Principles is organized into 2 sections. In the first section, you'll tackle concepts like Guide Tones, Comping Principles and Motivic Development. Jazzy Blues is the focus of the second section where you will learn to swing and add some more interesting chords to your arsenal.
When you've completed the lessons here in Advanced Rhythm Principles, you'll find more lessons focused on rhythm in Advanced Rhythm Approaches, also a Play Blues Guitar 8 core course.
The educators demonstrate all of the key examples over jam tracks (where and when applicable) to simulate a real-world application, in a musical context. All of the key examples are also tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes.
You'll also get Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop or slow down the tab and notation as you work through the lessons. Plus, you'll have all of the available jam tracks to work with on your own.
Take as much time as you need to work through each video guitar lesson before moving on to the next lesson. If you want to dig deeper or wider into any of the topics covered in this core course, check out the recommended supplementary courses in your learning path where you'll find more examples, techniques and insight from top TrueFire educators.
Grab your guitar and let's get started!
This Blues Learning Path core course is presented by 5 top TrueFire educators: Robben Ford, Andy Timmons, Jeff Scheetz, David Blacker, and Brad Carlton.
The Advanced Rhythm Principles curriculum is comprised of select blues guitar lessons from the educators' existing TrueFire course libraries.
Guitarists with advanced rhythm guitar skills write their own ticket with respect to paying or playing opportunities. Other musicians love to round out their rhythm section with solid, versatile rhythm guitarists. Pros will always get the most lucrative gigs, and amateurs will always get to play with the very best. The video guitar lessons in this core course will focus on strengthening and broadening your rhythm skills to an advanced level.
Play Blues Guitar 8: Advanced Rhythm Principles is organized into 2 sections. In the first section, you'll tackle concepts like Guide Tones, Comping Principles and Motivic Development. Jazzy Blues is the focus of the second section where you will learn to swing and add some more interesting chords to your arsenal.
When you've completed the lessons here in Advanced Rhythm Principles, you'll find more lessons focused on rhythm in Advanced Rhythm Approaches, also a Play Blues Guitar 8 core course.
The educators demonstrate all of the key examples over jam tracks (where and when applicable) to simulate a real-world application, in a musical context. All of the key examples are also tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes.
You'll also get Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop or slow down the tab and notation as you work through the lessons. Plus, you'll have all of the available jam tracks to work with on your own.
Take as much time as you need to work through each video guitar lesson before moving on to the next lesson. If you want to dig deeper or wider into any of the topics covered in this core course, check out the recommended supplementary courses in your learning path where you'll find more examples, techniques and insight from top TrueFire educators.
Grab your guitar and let's get started!
Concepts and Insight
In this section you will work on comping principles, look at guide tones, and dig into motivic development. These concepts will take you deeper into rhythmic possibilities.
TIP! Being a good rhythm guitarist starts with having a good sense of timing and being able to play in the pocket. But once you have a good handle on that, then you need to expand your options - both rhythmically and harmonically.
A great way to do this is by listening to other players who are great rhythm guitarists. Hear how they apply different variations and make note of what their choices are.
It helps to break your rhythm practice into those two areas - work on rhythm variations and different feels and grooves. Then work on using other harmonic options, different chord inversions and voicings. If you systematically experiment with testing out other options you will naturally gravitate towards the ones that are YOUR style, and you can further develop those, and then you will become that hip rhythm player that other people listen to!
TIP! Being a good rhythm guitarist starts with having a good sense of timing and being able to play in the pocket. But once you have a good handle on that, then you need to expand your options - both rhythmically and harmonically.
A great way to do this is by listening to other players who are great rhythm guitarists. Hear how they apply different variations and make note of what their choices are.
It helps to break your rhythm practice into those two areas - work on rhythm variations and different feels and grooves. Then work on using other harmonic options, different chord inversions and voicings. If you systematically experiment with testing out other options you will naturally gravitate towards the ones that are YOUR style, and you can further develop those, and then you will become that hip rhythm player that other people listen to!
Meet Your New Best Friends of the Jam: Guide Tones
Meet Your New Best Friends of the Jam: Guide Tones - Introduction is a video guitar lesson presented by Jeff Scheetz and is sourced from Blues Jam Survival Guide.
Guide tones are basically the 3rd and the 7th of the scale. That is because those are the most important notes of a chord, and will tell you what family the chord is from - Major, minor, or Dominant. So by just playing those two notes, you get a lot of information about the chord!
Guide tones are basically the 3rd and the 7th of the scale. That is because those are the most important notes of a chord, and will tell you what family the chord is from - Major, minor, or Dominant. So by just playing those two notes, you get a lot of information about the chord!
Guide Tones - Part 2
Guide Tones - Part 2 - Overview is a video guitar lesson presented by Jeff Scheetz and is sourced from Blues Jam Survival Guide.
The real beauty of the guide tone theory is simplicity. If you play the 3rd and the flat 7th of any chord as your 1 chord, and move it down one fret, that is your 4 chord - then move it up above the 1 chord by one fret - that is your 5 chord. So it works like that all over the neck! And can really make for a nice addition to just banging out the full barre chords all of the time.
The real beauty of the guide tone theory is simplicity. If you play the 3rd and the flat 7th of any chord as your 1 chord, and move it down one fret, that is your 4 chord - then move it up above the 1 chord by one fret - that is your 5 chord. So it works like that all over the neck! And can really make for a nice addition to just banging out the full barre chords all of the time.
Guide Tones - Part 3
Guide Tones - Part 3 - Performance is a video guitar lesson presented by Jeff Scheetz and is sourced from Blues Jam Survival Guide.
You will hear a lot of "guide tone" sounding parts where there are horns. Many times a horn part will be a couple of horns playing "harmony" with one playing the 3rd and one the 7th - works great for those type of "stabs" in there because they don't conflict with the root, and they help to define the chord quality.
You will hear a lot of "guide tone" sounding parts where there are horns. Many times a horn part will be a couple of horns playing "harmony" with one playing the 3rd and one the 7th - works great for those type of "stabs" in there because they don't conflict with the root, and they help to define the chord quality.
Comping In G
Comping In G - Overview is a video guitar lesson presented by Andy Timmons and is sourced from Electric Expression: Blues.
In this first performance study we'll be comping in the key of G. We're going to focus on outlining the harmony as well as providing support for potential soloists and singers. I'll implement some of the double stops that we looked at in the first section.
In this first performance study we'll be comping in the key of G. We're going to focus on outlining the harmony as well as providing support for potential soloists and singers. I'll implement some of the double stops that we looked at in the first section.
Comping In G
Comping In G - Performance is a video guitar lesson presented by Andy Timmons and is sourced from Electric Expression: Blues.
In this first performance study we'll be comping in the key of G. We're going to focus on outlining the harmony as well as providing support for potential soloists and singers. I'll implement some of the double stops that we looked at in the first section.
In this first performance study we'll be comping in the key of G. We're going to focus on outlining the harmony as well as providing support for potential soloists and singers. I'll implement some of the double stops that we looked at in the first section.
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