Wah Guitar Grooves

Hi, I'm Carl Burnett. Welcome to Wah Guitar Grooves.

When I was in high school, I had a chrome-top Vox Wah. After graduating, I gave it to my younger cousin. Over the years, it was lost and that was that. The next time I would own a Wah would come some 10 years later in a funny way: I was living in LA at the time and there was an audition for the band of a new artist, Paula Abdul. The audition song, "The Way That You Love Me", at 2:10 (check it out) has this funky wah break. So, I figured I'd better get a wah pedal. Think what you want about Paula Abdul, but that first album overall has some serious funk guitar mostly played by Oliver Leiber, who was also the producer and songwriter.

Well, I didn't land the Paula gig, but ended up on another big pop tour, a story for another time. Since then, wah became a favorite extension of my musical voice. Unlike most pedals, the wah-wah isn't just an effect - it's actually an instrument unto itself, and when applied to a solid rhythm guitar part - the groove is undeniable.

Across the ten rhythm performance studies in this course, we'll explore wah-wah effects like, warbles, waves, cat cries, wah-wah watson inspired waterfall tricks, and many other techniques and approaches. We'll play over a variety of tracks I produced to help you take a session guitarists approach to crafting wah rhythm parts that really make the track groove.

Everything is tabbed out and notated and you'll have all the backing tracks to work with on your own. You can loop and slow down the videos to work with the lessons at your own pace. I hope you enjoy this course; it's my hope to inspire you to find your wah voice!