Berta
Verified buyer
01/08/25
Great course!!!
Awesome! Not easy to find good soul courses that are not neo-soul. Hope he does another course!
Soul Guitar Guidebook Vol. 2
Advanced Rhythm & Soloing Approaches for Soul Guitar
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About this course
Listen to any Stax, Motown, James Brown or Wilson Pickett record and you’ll instantly recognize how critical a role the guitarist plays in the overall mix. Guitarists like Bobby Womack, Cornell Dupree, Little Milton, Wolfman Washington and Johnny Guitar Watson created a fresh and exciting style of rhythm and lead guitar that remains a staple to this day in so many genres from pop to rock to funk.
In this second volume of Jimmy Reiter’s Soul Guitar Guidebook, you’ll learn more soul guitar licks and rhythmic moves that will spice up your playing across a wide variety of contemporary styles.
”In the first edition of the Soul Guitar Guidebook, we examined the players and their signature moves that helped define the soul music genre. In this second volume, we’ll take the exploration further by learning and playing through ten performance studies that feature a wide range of soul guitar licks and moves.”
Jimmy kicks off the course with an essential primer on octaves and soulful slash chords. You’ll then apply those skills and build on them as you play through 10 soulful performance studies.
Jimmy will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches along the way. You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all of the Performance Studies. Plus, Jimmy includes all of the rhythm tracks for you to work with on your own. In addition, you’ll be able to loop or slow down any of the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace.
Grab your guitar and let’s get soulful with Jimmy Reiter!
In this second volume of Jimmy Reiter’s Soul Guitar Guidebook, you’ll learn more soul guitar licks and rhythmic moves that will spice up your playing across a wide variety of contemporary styles.
”In the first edition of the Soul Guitar Guidebook, we examined the players and their signature moves that helped define the soul music genre. In this second volume, we’ll take the exploration further by learning and playing through ten performance studies that feature a wide range of soul guitar licks and moves.”
Jimmy kicks off the course with an essential primer on octaves and soulful slash chords. You’ll then apply those skills and build on them as you play through 10 soulful performance studies.
Jimmy will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches along the way. You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all of the Performance Studies. Plus, Jimmy includes all of the rhythm tracks for you to work with on your own. In addition, you’ll be able to loop or slow down any of the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace.
Grab your guitar and let’s get soulful with Jimmy Reiter!
What you'll learn
- Execute hybrid picking technique for combining pick and fingers
- Play Chicago blues-style double stop licks with hammer-ons and slides
- Combine single note runs with octave double stops in a complete solo
- Use double stops (thirds and sixths) to create harmonic interest
- Construct melodic solos over pretty chord progressions using chord tones
Release date: 08/15/2018 • 1h 24m runtime
Sample lessons
Octave Double Stops
Concept 2
Guess I'll Come Back
Performance
Guess I'll Come Back
Breakdown 1
Guess I'll Come Back
Breakdown 2
What's included
25 lessons • 11 charts • 9 Jam Tracks
Soul Guitar Guidebook Vol. 2
Hi, I'm Jimmy Reiter, and welcome to Vol. 2 of the Soul Guitar Guidebook. Listen to any Stax, Motown, James Brown or Wilson Pickett record, and notice how great the guitars fit into the overall sound. It's like they're playing rhythm and solo at the same time, sometimes weaving together multiple guitar parts. Guitarists like Bobby Womack, Cornell Dupree, Little Milton, Wolfman Washington and Johnny "Guitar" Watson created a whole new approach to playing in the pocket. The guitar occupies a specific place in the musical mix, playing a fundamental role in the rhythm section.
In Vol. 1 of the Soul Guitar Guidebook, we had a look at players and licks that helped define this genre of music. Now, I'd like to take this exploration further, because there's a whole lot more great stuff to dig into.
Let's start by looking at some additional concepts that a guitarist needs to know in this style, like funky octave playing and soulful slash chords. Then, we'll put these ideas to work covering seven original soul and R&B songs, studying the rhythm parts and the solos. This course comes with backing tracks, tabs and additional info for each lesson. So, why don't you don't you pick up your guitar and join me in another trip into the world of soul guitar?
In Vol. 1 of the Soul Guitar Guidebook, we had a look at players and licks that helped define this genre of music. Now, I'd like to take this exploration further, because there's a whole lot more great stuff to dig into.
Let's start by looking at some additional concepts that a guitarist needs to know in this style, like funky octave playing and soulful slash chords. Then, we'll put these ideas to work covering seven original soul and R&B songs, studying the rhythm parts and the solos. This course comes with backing tracks, tabs and additional info for each lesson. So, why don't you don't you pick up your guitar and join me in another trip into the world of soul guitar?
Slash Chords
When I recorded the examples for this course, I noticed quite a few of the songs had slash chords in them. So, what is a slash chord? Even if you're not familiar with the term, I'm sure you've run across slash chords before. Sometimes when you see a chord progression, you might see something like "C/E". Now, that doesn't mean that you can choose whether you want to play a C or an E chord here. All it means is that you're supposed to play a C major triad with an E in the bass instead of the root. That's why this would also be referred to as C over E.
Octave Double Stops
Now as you probably all know, soul guitar fills are full of double stop licks. The most common intervals for those licks are thirds, sixths and sometimes fourths. I've talked about these extensively in my first course, Soul Guitar Guidebook, and we're going to come across a lot of thirds and sixths and so on in this course as well. But in this lesson, I want to talk about octave double stops, which simply means playing the same note twice, just an octave apart.
Guess I'll Come Back
This example is a nice groove with a 4-bar chord progression in the key of G minor. There's a song called "If You Want Me to Stay" by Sly & the Family Stone that has very similar chords, and also the verses in "Sunny" by Bobby Hebb are pretty close. Not identical, but the same idea I would say.
I'll show you the rhythm guitar first and then give you an idea for a solo, in which I'm going to use both chords and single note licks. They use some of the more interesting notes in those chords, like flat nines and sharp nines.
I'll show you the rhythm guitar first and then give you an idea for a solo, in which I'm going to use both chords and single note licks. They use some of the more interesting notes in those chords, like flat nines and sharp nines.
Guess I'll Come Back
This example is a nice groove with a 4-bar chord progression in the key of G minor. There's a song called "If You Want Me to Stay" by Sly & the Family Stone that has very similar chords, and also the verses in "Sunny" by Bobby Hebb are pretty close. Not identical, but the same idea I would say.
I'll show you the rhythm guitar first and then give you an idea for a solo, in which I'm going to use both chords and single note licks. They use some of the more interesting notes in those chords, like flat nines and sharp nines.
I'll show you the rhythm guitar first and then give you an idea for a solo, in which I'm going to use both chords and single note licks. They use some of the more interesting notes in those chords, like flat nines and sharp nines.
Guess I'll Come Back
This example is a nice groove with a 4-bar chord progression in the key of G minor. There's a song called "If You Want Me to Stay" by Sly & the Family Stone that has very similar chords, and also the verses in "Sunny" by Bobby Hebb are pretty close. Not identical, but the same idea I would say.
I'll show you the rhythm guitar first and then give you an idea for a solo, in which I'm going to use both chords and single note licks. They use some of the more interesting notes in those chords, like flat nines and sharp nines.
I'll show you the rhythm guitar first and then give you an idea for a solo, in which I'm going to use both chords and single note licks. They use some of the more interesting notes in those chords, like flat nines and sharp nines.
Last Thing on My Mind
This is a soul groove in the key of C. You can hear very similar ideas in classic soul songs by The Temptations, Tyrone Davis and Clarence Carter to name but a few. This has an 8-bar verse part with a repeating 2-bar pattern and a bridge that uses a nice arpeggio idea.
+ 18 more lessons
Reviews
8 results
chanesone
Verified buyer
01/31/21
Cool
Great songs, a lot of soul inside!
morningfield
Verified buyer
07/02/20
Thanks !!
unprepped
04/06/20
Just as good as volume 1
This is a great addition to volume 1. Nice variety of soul guitar. Great teacher. Would love a volume 3
Playaxeman
08/18/19
enjoyed every lesson of it
This is a great course in melodic soul guitar. It realy opened my eyes for groove melodic lines and double stops which is why soul guitar is famous for. Jimmy playes it with gret ease and it looks simple but take care: it takes some time to play the doubles stops in the pocket and smooth. But if you put some time to it you will get it done and get it into your system. I must say that every lesson has catchy melodies and great chords progressions so also that a good look at how these and are constructed, I can't wait for vol 3: Jimmy go ahead and make a volume 3 in this style!!
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