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Live Plus: Blues Rhythm Camp, Episode 01
Lots of great concepts and ideas presented by three great musicians!!
Live Plus: Blues Rhythm Camp, Episode 01
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About this course
This edition of Blues Rhythm Camp featuring Jeff McErlain, Andy Timmons, and Corey Congilio focuses on a variety of blues rhythm guitar techniques and creative comping approaches.
Expanding on core concepts from their TrueFire library, the educators present new variations, more advanced techniques, and additional harmonic applications to enhance your rhythm playing over common blues changes.
Jeff McErlain’s series of lessons covers three ways to articulate the third in your chords for more interesting rhythm variations when playing boogie blues patterns.
Andy Timmons presents three approaches for blues comping with harmonic options, common tones, and horn-style riffs over a shuffle in G.
Corey Congilio wraps up the course with three variations for stepping up your blues rhythm using single note riffs and chordal variations over a funky groove.
The course includes all of the studio, on-location, and live-streamed video lessons, backing tracks, Q&A sessions, and prep materials presented before and during the live Blues Rhythm Camp.
All of the performances are tabbed and notated and you’ll be able to sync the tab and notation to the video using TrueFire’s learning tools. All of the backing tracks are included and you can loop or slow down any of the videos so you can work with the lessons at your own pace.
Grab your guitar, and let’s comp the blues with Jeff McErlain, Andy Timmons, and Corey Congilio!
Expanding on core concepts from their TrueFire library, the educators present new variations, more advanced techniques, and additional harmonic applications to enhance your rhythm playing over common blues changes.
Jeff McErlain’s series of lessons covers three ways to articulate the third in your chords for more interesting rhythm variations when playing boogie blues patterns.
Andy Timmons presents three approaches for blues comping with harmonic options, common tones, and horn-style riffs over a shuffle in G.
Corey Congilio wraps up the course with three variations for stepping up your blues rhythm using single note riffs and chordal variations over a funky groove.
The course includes all of the studio, on-location, and live-streamed video lessons, backing tracks, Q&A sessions, and prep materials presented before and during the live Blues Rhythm Camp.
All of the performances are tabbed and notated and you’ll be able to sync the tab and notation to the video using TrueFire’s learning tools. All of the backing tracks are included and you can loop or slow down any of the videos so you can work with the lessons at your own pace.
Grab your guitar, and let’s comp the blues with Jeff McErlain, Andy Timmons, and Corey Congilio!
Jeff McErlain's Preferred Gear
Below is a list of Jeff McErlain's preferred gear including guitars, amps, pedals, accessories, and more. What you see in Jeff's lessons may or may not be this actual gear, but if you are trying to capture Jeff's sound and tone, the gear listed below is recommended by Jeff and it's a great place to start!
Guitars
- Gibson SG Guitar
- Gibson Les Paul Goldtop Guitar
- Fender Stratocaster Guitar
- Tuttle Carve Top Supreme Guitar
Amps
Pedals
- Fulltone Octafuzz OF-2 Fuzz / Octave Pedal
- Strymon Flint Tremolo and Reverb Pedal
- Xotic EP Booster Pedal
- Ibanez Tube Screamer Overdrive Pedal
- Fulltone OCD Distortion Pedal
- Dunlop Jimi Hendrix Fuzz Face Pedal
- TC Electronic Hall of Fame Reverb Pedal
- MXR Carbon Copy Analog Delay Pedal
- TC Electronic Flashback 2 Delay and Looper Pedal
- Fulltone Supa-Trem Tremolo Pedal
- Boss Super Chorus Pedal
- MXR Flanger Pedal
- MXR Phase 90 Phase Shifter Pedal
- MXR Dyan Comp Compressor Pedal
- Ernie Ball VP JR Volume Pedal
- Dunlop Original Cry Baby Wah Wah Pedal
- MXR M199 Tap Tempo Pedal
Accessories & More
What you'll learn
- Play 13th chord voicings in a funk blues context
- Execute smooth slides between chord tones for funky embellishments
- Apply jazz-influenced harmony to traditional blues progressions
- Creating melodic and interesting rhythm parts as the sole guitarist
- Learn to play thirds-based fills inspired by Sweet Home Chicago
Release date: 07/16/2020 • 2h 45m runtime
Sample lessons
Addressing the 3rd
Concept #9
Boogie-Woogie Blues 1
Performance
Comping in G
Overview
Comping in G
Performance
What's included
53 lessons • 13 charts • 13 Jam Tracks
Live Plus: Blues Rhythm Camp, Episode 01
Welcome to this edition of TrueFire's Blues Rhythm Camp, featuring Jeff McErlain, Andy Timmons and Corey Congilio. Originally broadcasted live, this Blues Camp focuses on a variety of blues rhythm guitar techniques and creative comping approaches. Expanding on core concepts from their TrueFire library, the educators present new variations, more advanced techniques and additional harmonic applications to enhance your rhythm playing over common blues changes.
Jeff McErlain's series of lessons cover boogie blues patterns, where Jeff demonstrates three ways to articulate the third in your chords for more interesting rhythm variations.
Andy Timmons presents three approaches for blues rhythm with harmonic options, common tones and horn style riffs in a shuffle in G.
Corey Congilio wraps up the course with three variations for stepping up your blues rhythm with single note riffs and chordal variations over a funky groove.
The course includes all the video lessons, backing tracks, Q&A sessions and prep materials presented both before and during the camp. All the performances are tabbed and notated, and you'll be able to sync the notation to the video using TrueFire's learning tools. You can loop or slow down any of the videos so you can work with the lessons at your own pace. Grab your guitar, and let's comp some blues!
Jeff McErlain's series of lessons cover boogie blues patterns, where Jeff demonstrates three ways to articulate the third in your chords for more interesting rhythm variations.
Andy Timmons presents three approaches for blues rhythm with harmonic options, common tones and horn style riffs in a shuffle in G.
Corey Congilio wraps up the course with three variations for stepping up your blues rhythm with single note riffs and chordal variations over a funky groove.
The course includes all the video lessons, backing tracks, Q&A sessions and prep materials presented both before and during the camp. All the performances are tabbed and notated, and you'll be able to sync the notation to the video using TrueFire's learning tools. You can loop or slow down any of the videos so you can work with the lessons at your own pace. Grab your guitar, and let's comp some blues!
Introducing Jeff McErlain
Welcome everyone to TrueFire's Blues Rhythm Camp. Up first, we have someone who's definitely a friend of the 'Fire and certainly not a stranger to students. We're happy to welcome back Jeff McErlain!
Addressing the 3rd
Jeff McErlain starts out talking about addressing the 3rd when playing rhythm guitar over blues changes. He takes us through tweaking/flatting the third to make it sound bluesier than the natural third. Bending the third flat and using vibrato is a great way to approach this, giving us the vocal sound we're looking for. Here he'll work through the chords, showing you where to tweak the third in the progression.
Addressing the 3rd
This lesson is originally taken from Jeff McErlain's Blues Survival Guide: Rhythm.
The key note to the blues is the 3rd, and this is where it gets tricky and super cool. Let's talk scales for a second, the first scale we guitar players grab on a blues is the minor pentatonic scale. But have you stopped to consider that the I chord in a blues is major? So we are playing a minor scale over a major chord, in any other situation this would be a serious no no. But in the blues it sounds great, if you don't sit on that note that is. So we tweak it a bit to allude to that major third that is in the chord. We want to bend it a 1/4 step and usually resolve it. Generally we don't want to spend too much time on that note. This bend gives us that characteristics flavor we associate with the blues. We can also fret that note and sound the major third. This sound is bluesy as well but much much brighter. Not bad, but certainly a choice that has it's place.
The key note to the blues is the 3rd, and this is where it gets tricky and super cool. Let's talk scales for a second, the first scale we guitar players grab on a blues is the minor pentatonic scale. But have you stopped to consider that the I chord in a blues is major? So we are playing a minor scale over a major chord, in any other situation this would be a serious no no. But in the blues it sounds great, if you don't sit on that note that is. So we tweak it a bit to allude to that major third that is in the chord. We want to bend it a 1/4 step and usually resolve it. Generally we don't want to spend too much time on that note. This bend gives us that characteristics flavor we associate with the blues. We can also fret that note and sound the major third. This sound is bluesy as well but much much brighter. Not bad, but certainly a choice that has it's place.
Boogie-Woogie Blues 1
This lesson is originally taken from Jeff McErlain's Blues Survival Guide: Rhythm.Blues is often about what we don't play. Frankly, all music is like that, at least the good kind! I am using the traditional boogie woogie feel here as the underlying pulse and working around it. Very often in blues tunes the "riff" of the tune is on the I7 chord, in this case I am playing something similar to Muddy Water's "Champagne and Reefer". The riff is a simple motif based on an E minor Blues scale, this is a perfect example of that ambiguous minor 3rd that is so important to the blues. On the IV7 chord I am using some slight variations on the boogie pattern, the V7 is straight forward as is often the case. In the last measure I used a cool classic turnaround.
Simple Thirds
The first variation we'll cover is using simple thirds, moving our same idea up the neck. On the IV chord, we're playing very simply and playing the third and root, as well as playing the third and root of the V chord before heading back into the I. This outlines the sound of the chord while keeping it simple, which is very important when playing the blues. Let's take a look.
Simple Thirds
The first variation we'll cover is using simple thirds, moving our same idea up the neck. On the IV chord, we're playing very simply and playing the third and root, as well as playing the third and root of the V chord before heading back into the I. This outlines the sound of the chord while keeping it simple, which is very important when playing the blues. Let's take a look.
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MarkG333
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10/31/22
Slave to the Rhythm
Another great course from Jay Mac.
jotka53
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12/26/21
Live Plus: Blues Rhythm Camp, Episode 01
Great stuff from Jeff
Atomic7
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06/18/21
Basic Blues and funk comping!
These compings is very basic, but very important! Great teachers!
Artist21
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08/03/20
Good course!
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