ReverendZ
Verified buyer
05/13/25
Seth Rosenbloom's Blues Rhythm Handbook. review
Great course! Seth is excellent at breaking things down in understandable lessons. Very enjoyable and useful.
Blues Rhythm Handbook
8 Pro Comping Techniques and Chord Vocabulary for Blues Rhythm Guitar
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About this course
Whether your jamming, gigging or just having fun playing with your blues buds on the porch, you’ll spend 90% of your time playing rhythm guitar behind a vocalist or soloist. Expanding your rhythm skills, chord vocabulary and comping approaches not only takes your chops to the next level, the feel and groove is greatly enhanced.
Seth Rosenbloom’s Blues Rhythm Handbook is a fast-track curriculum for boosting your blues rhythm guitar chops with 8 versatile comping techniques and approaches that you can put to work immediately.
”I’ll show you how to develop rhythmic motifs, use smaller voicings, add extensions and upper structures, distinguish comping from strumming, and how to choose best approaches for minor blues, slow blues and other commonly encountered blues feels.
We’ll apply each of the 8 techniques, over backing tracks, across a variety of blues feels, tempos and keys. We’ll practice together so you can internalize the feel and technique. When you’re ready, use the backing tracks on your own and then take it to the stage.”
You’ll have all of TrueFire’s advanced learning tools at your finger tips to personalize your workspace and learn at your own pace.
You can loop, slow down, or speed up any section of a lesson. Plus, all of the tab and notation is synced to the videos for the optimal learning experience. You’ll also get tab and standard notation files to print out, Guitar Pro files, and all of the backing tracks to practice with.
Grab your guitar, and let’s dig in with Seth Rosenbloom!
Seth Rosenbloom’s Blues Rhythm Handbook is a fast-track curriculum for boosting your blues rhythm guitar chops with 8 versatile comping techniques and approaches that you can put to work immediately.
”I’ll show you how to develop rhythmic motifs, use smaller voicings, add extensions and upper structures, distinguish comping from strumming, and how to choose best approaches for minor blues, slow blues and other commonly encountered blues feels.
We’ll apply each of the 8 techniques, over backing tracks, across a variety of blues feels, tempos and keys. We’ll practice together so you can internalize the feel and technique. When you’re ready, use the backing tracks on your own and then take it to the stage.”
You’ll have all of TrueFire’s advanced learning tools at your finger tips to personalize your workspace and learn at your own pace.
You can loop, slow down, or speed up any section of a lesson. Plus, all of the tab and notation is synced to the videos for the optimal learning experience. You’ll also get tab and standard notation files to print out, Guitar Pro files, and all of the backing tracks to practice with.
Grab your guitar, and let’s dig in with Seth Rosenbloom!
What you'll learn
- Play two contrasting rhythm approaches over slow blues
- Play subtle rhythm parts that support vocals
- Apply upper structure triads in blues context
- Use rootless voicings for moody sound
- How to create contrasting rhythm guitar parts when playing with another guitarist
Release date: 09/13/2022 • 1h 55m runtime
Sample lessons
G Shuffle Motivation
Performance
Slow & Light in B
Performance
Playing Chords vs. Comping
Demonstration
Laid Back Comp in F
Overview
What's included
34 lessons • 16 charts • 8 Jam Tracks
Blues Rhythm Handbook
Hey, Seth Rosenbloom here.
In this Blues Rhythm Handbook, we'll explore what I consider to be 8 of the most important techniques and creative approaches for playing blues rhythm guitar.
I'll show you how to develop rhythmic motifs, smaller voicings, adding extensions and upper structures, strumming vs comping, and more.
We’ll then apply each rhythm approach, over backing tracks, across a variety of blues feels, tempos and keys.
Everything is tabbed and synced to the video. You can slow down or loop any of the video lessons to learn at your own pace.
Grab your guitar and let’s go!
In this Blues Rhythm Handbook, we'll explore what I consider to be 8 of the most important techniques and creative approaches for playing blues rhythm guitar.
I'll show you how to develop rhythmic motifs, smaller voicings, adding extensions and upper structures, strumming vs comping, and more.
We’ll then apply each rhythm approach, over backing tracks, across a variety of blues feels, tempos and keys.
Everything is tabbed and synced to the video. You can slow down or loop any of the video lessons to learn at your own pace.
Grab your guitar and let’s go!
Rhythmic Motifs
In this video we dive into Rhythmic Motifs. Rhythmic Motifs are something in the song to come back too. Good references are old blues records with horn sections, in these records they create dynamics and a nice feeling that fills in the listeners experience.
G Shuffle Motivation
We are going to take this idea of a rhythmic motif and apply it over a 12 bar blues with 3 simple chords.
G Shuffle Motivation
In this performance I will demonstrate Rhythmic Motifs over G Shuffle Motivation.
G Shuffle Motivation
The concepts of this lesson will teach you the importance of rhythmic phrasing and the passing anticipating the 1. Don't over play, leave space and focus on adding to the overall track and not taking away.
Small 5th and 6th String Voicings
In this video we will focus on the 5th and 6th string voicing. What we are looking for is the chord voicing that carves out some space for the rest of the band. You can utilize hybrid picking to help create dynamics and character in your track.
Slow & Light in B
In this segment we will go over the changes over a track of slow blues.
+ 27 more lessons
Reviews
9 results
Gs458
Verified buyer
03/03/25
Great , and accesssable blues rythm courses
really good course, lessons are easily to follow, and start out quite simple then gradually get more complex making it a perfect rhythm course that an early intermediate player can grow with.
tmach
Verified buyer
09/10/24
Excellent Handbook
This was my first experience with Seth Rosenbloom's teaching. Just getting into the nuts and bolts of it, but very well done! Truefire delivers once again. Will look for more from him.
Kranickua
07/01/23
This is a REALLY great course!
Definitely one of the best blues rhythm courses on TrueFire!
Kranick
02/28/23
Great course!
A lot of useful examples of how to make your blues rhythm cops more interesting!
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