oldintheway
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09/04/22
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I paid five bucks for this, but the service you get is terrific; you learn the crucial topics that make you a better guitarist. learn to groove you won’t regret it!
Guitar Lab: The Essence of Groove Vol. 1
Intensive Examination of Groove Building Concepts & Approaches for Guitar
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About this course
Hi, I'm Brad Carlton. Welcome to Volume 1 of Guitar Lab: The Essence of Groove.
In my 50 years of teaching, I've found rhythm to be the most common weakness in my students' skill set. This course is designed to help you understand and solidify the concept of groove. To accomplish that goal, we'll approach the guitar as a drum/bass unit. The harmonic vehicle that we'll use will be a ii7-V7 in E major, which translates to F#m7 to B7. You'll learn melodic moves that will be applied to the bass line, then to melody.
This course will utilize a "wrist down" fingerstyle technique, which will allow you to emulate the fingerstyle bass, slap bass, and drums. The benefits of absorbing the principles presented in this course will serve you in all styles and all musical configurations; from solo guitar to big band comping. Let's get started.
In my 50 years of teaching, I've found rhythm to be the most common weakness in my students' skill set. This course is designed to help you understand and solidify the concept of groove. To accomplish that goal, we'll approach the guitar as a drum/bass unit. The harmonic vehicle that we'll use will be a ii7-V7 in E major, which translates to F#m7 to B7. You'll learn melodic moves that will be applied to the bass line, then to melody.
This course will utilize a "wrist down" fingerstyle technique, which will allow you to emulate the fingerstyle bass, slap bass, and drums. The benefits of absorbing the principles presented in this course will serve you in all styles and all musical configurations; from solo guitar to big band comping. Let's get started.
What you'll learn
- Use guide tones (thirds and sevenths) to define chord changes
- Begin developing shuffle eighth note feel using left-hand slurs
- Learn proper wrist-down fingerstyle hand position for groove playing
- Understand that groove and time are the foundation of all music
- Develop kinesthetic connection to rhythm through foot tapping and body movement
Release date: 05/01/2019 • 1h 38m runtime
Sample lessons
What's included
16 lessons • 15 charts
Guitar Lab: The Essence of Groove Vol. 1
Hi, I'm Brad Carlton. Welcome to Volume 1 of Guitar Lab: The Essence of Groove.
In my 50 years of teaching, I've found rhythm to be the most common weakness in my students' skill set. This course is designed to help you understand and solidify the concept of groove. To accomplish that goal, we'll approach the guitar as a drum/bass unit. The harmonic vehicle that we'll use will be a ii7-V7 in E major, which translates to F#m7 to B7. You'll learn melodic moves that will be applied to the bass line, then to melody.
This course will utilize a "wrist down" fingerstyle technique, which will allow you to emulate the fingerstyle bass, slap bass, and drums. The benefits of absorbing the principles presented in this course will serve you in all styles and all musical configurations; from solo guitar to big band comping. Let's get started.
In my 50 years of teaching, I've found rhythm to be the most common weakness in my students' skill set. This course is designed to help you understand and solidify the concept of groove. To accomplish that goal, we'll approach the guitar as a drum/bass unit. The harmonic vehicle that we'll use will be a ii7-V7 in E major, which translates to F#m7 to B7. You'll learn melodic moves that will be applied to the bass line, then to melody.
This course will utilize a "wrist down" fingerstyle technique, which will allow you to emulate the fingerstyle bass, slap bass, and drums. The benefits of absorbing the principles presented in this course will serve you in all styles and all musical configurations; from solo guitar to big band comping. Let's get started.
Getting a Sound
There are two general postures of the wrist when playing fingerstyle on the guitar. This video will demonstrate the wrist up approach (classical guitar) vs. wrist down posture (funk, country, and blues).
Establishing the Harmony
As stated in the introduction, the vamp we'll be playing is a ii-V in E. I'll explain the theory behind this analysis in the video.
Targeting Roots
The root of a chord is the strongest tone. This lesson will demonstrate the targeting of the root of each chord in a rhythmic gridwork.
Eighth Note Triplets
The subject of eighth note triplets will be explained in depth in this lesson. Remember, if you can count it, you can play it.
Shuffle Eighth Notes
Shuffle eighth notes can be viewed as an eighth note triplet with the first and second eighth notes tied together.
Approach Notes Pt. 1
The melodic move presented in this lesson targets the root via the b7.
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Reviews
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jimmyjack
Verified buyer
06/29/19
The Essence of Groove Vol. I
I am loving this course. I have studied a good number of Brad Carlton’s courses, especially his rhythm studies, and I am a big fan. This course can be seen as a “Best of” collection or “Brad’s Greatest Hits”. This study will give you great techniques on maintaining the groove why playing 8th note triplets, shuffle triplets, target notes and double stops. It is a great study to improve your chops and creativity. I highly recommend it.
dang4
05/09/19
Another brilliant course by Brad Carlton! Like his other courses, this course teaches theory and technique, but the emphasis is always on creativity and musical expressiveness. Brad is an outstanding guitarist who is an outstanding educator. This course will improve your playing regardless of your playing level.
jncinn
05/09/19
In Brad once again we trust!
Once again, Brad has put out yet another completely fun and inventive course to keep us all on our toes! Brad Carlton is most definitely the 'thinking man's guitarist' in that he's continually telling us what's going through his musical mind plus explaining all the theory and reasoning behind all his playing as he strives to diversify and keep things super interesting as he cancels out any boring guitar. This is already one of his better and most useful courses! Just his expounding on the great versatile virtues of a Stratocaster and techniques to fully utilize this great instrument and his section on Double Stops and specifically on Compound Interval Power Chords is worth the price of admission and our study time alone! It's impossible to not play away with a ton of new ideas after taking and understanding this new Brad Carlton course!! Jim C.
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