rick56
Verified buyer
05/11/21
Sokay.
Good Info, Not my favorite instructor. I have looked at quite a few of his vids and he just seems to to rub me the wrong way. Good info and well presented...
Guitar Lab: Creative Comping
Intensive Examination of Accompaniment Approaches for Guitar
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About this course
Welcome to Guitar Lab: Creative Comping. We'll be exploring various rhythm guitar approaches over each of the four jam tracks that are included in this course. You'll be presented with theoretical guidelines for systematically organizing your harmonic and melodic options. Grab your guitar, and let's get started!
What you'll learn
- Play power chords with proper palm muting technique across the fretboard
- Apply blues composite scale to rhythm guitar parts
- Apply comping concepts across multiple styles (rockabilly, blues, fusion)
- Use comping theory for soloing applications
- Create musical accompaniment that complements other musicians
Release date: 09/01/2018 • 1h 38m runtime
Sample lessons
Snappy Shoes
Scalar Options Pt. 1
Snappy Shoes
Scalar Options Pt. 2
What's included
11 lessons • 10 charts • 4 Jam Tracks
Guitar Lab: Creative Comping
Hi, I'm Brad Carlton, and welcome to Guitar Lab: Creative Comping. We'll be exploring various rhythm guitar approaches over each of the four jam tracks that are included in this course. You'll be presented with theoretical guidelines for systematically organizing your harmonic and melodic options. Grab your guitar, and let's get started!
Snappy Shoes
This tune is a shuffle in A. We'll begin with power chord approaches and then move on to 7no3 voicings.
Snappy Shoes
This lesson will add the b7 to the power chord voicings in the previous lesson. The resulting structure is labeld 7no3. You'll then learn the three inversions of this chord on the top three strings.
Snappy Shoes
Now we'll continue to add notes from the minor pentatonic scale and the blues composite to create more color in the rhythm guitar part.
Snappy Shoes
In this lesson, you'll learn how to construct drop 2 (dom)7 voicings on the top four strings. Then, you'll learn how to modify a voice (or voices) to create 7/6, 9, and 13 voicings.
Snappy Shoes
The final lesson for "Snappy Shoes" will demonstrate the major pentatonic addb3 and also the "sides" of the pentatonic scales as further options for creating a rhythm guitar part.
Be Mine Or
"Be Mine Or" is a jam in B Dorian. This lesson will demonstrate how to build chordal structures out of the minor pentatonic scale. The formula for the min pent scale is: 1, b3, 4, 5, b7. It's a subset of the Dorian mode: 1, 2, b3, 4, 5, 6, b7.
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Reviews
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jerrydixon
Verified buyer
03/27/20
Great course
Brad Carlton is always a great teacher. This is a very concise and good course.
klog52
12/28/19
Jammin
For sure not for beginners, you will definitely need some knowledge of chords and chord progressions. Plenty of charts but would be really confusing to a beginner. I like how Brad breaks down the jam tracks and shows how approach mixing your own rhythm and chords into the mix. I know I have listened to a lot of jam tracks but was lost as to how to approach them, but this lesson definitely opened the door on how to approach a jam track and introduce your own methods into the mix.
LinguaFranka
Verified buyer
11/14/19
Interesting Ideas
An interesting course with some good concepts. Lots of talking though and personally I would prefer more clearly defined demonstrations and breakdowns/analysis, rather than talking during semi instructional play throughs.
mattstutts2
10/05/18
It's work...
Look, all of these Guitar Lab courses can seem like more work than fun. But if you dedicate yourself to a topic for a week or two..don't spend your whole practice session on them but give them 15-20 min of your time each time you play, you will develop theoretical competency. Here, you get maybe four different groves and Brad gives considerable attention to the scale options one would use to build simple chords. It's a rhythm lesson rich with theory but accessible.
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