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Neo Soul Guitar Guidebook
Essential Techniques & Approaches For Neo Soul Guitar
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Incorporating Jazz, Funk, Hip Hop, Fusion and even African elements in their sonic palette, Neo Soul artists have expanded the boundaries of popular Soul music. Bands like The Roots, D'Angelo, Slum Village, A Tribe Called Quest, artists like Maxwell, Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu and producers like J Dilla, MadLib and DJ Hi-Tek have inspired a fresh and original approach for contemporary, soulful guitar performance.
Rory Ronde’s Neo Soul Guitar Guidebook guides you through the Neo Soul landscape of fresh original sounds, hip timing, guitar sampling, and mesmerizing grooves. Rory passes on 7 key New Soul guitar concepts and techniques for fingerstyle approaches, embellishing chords, Neo Soul chord voicings, movement within chords, hammers, pulls, double-stops and sequencing. He’ll then demonstrate all of these key concepts and techniques across 8 performance studies.
”In this Neo Soul Guitar Guidebook, I'd like to share some ideas, concepts, techniques, and grooves that I use when playing guitar in Neo Soul, Hip Hop, R&B, and the modern jazz styles of today. We'll dig into fresh timing approaches, soul phrasing, and I'll show you the typical chords that are used in these styles and various ways to voice them. We'll explore various fingerstyle techniques that you can use to spice up your guitar playing. We'll also talk about guitar sampling, where you approach live guitar playing the same way a hip-hop producer would use audio software or sampling equipment.”
Ronde is a member of several bands including New Cool Collective, Wouter Hamel, LaGarçon* and Les Cooles De Ville. Ronde is also a songwriter and music producer, working under the alias Kofi Anonymous. Ronde has performed his music all over the world and, fortunately for we students of guitar, is also a passionate educator. We are very excited to welcome Rory to the family with his first TrueFire course, the Neo Soul Guitar Guidebook!
Rory’s 8 Performance studies cover the range of techniques, feels, and chord progressions that are most common in the Neo Soul genre. For each study, Rory will first demonstrate the performance and then break it down for you emphasizing the key concepts and techniques in play.
All of the key examples and performance studies are tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes. You’ll also get Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop and/or slow down the tab and notation as you work through the lessons. Plus, Rory includes all of the backing tracks for you to work with on your own.
Grab your guitar and let’s get our Neo Soul groove on with Rory Ronde!
Rory Ronde’s Neo Soul Guitar Guidebook guides you through the Neo Soul landscape of fresh original sounds, hip timing, guitar sampling, and mesmerizing grooves. Rory passes on 7 key New Soul guitar concepts and techniques for fingerstyle approaches, embellishing chords, Neo Soul chord voicings, movement within chords, hammers, pulls, double-stops and sequencing. He’ll then demonstrate all of these key concepts and techniques across 8 performance studies.
”In this Neo Soul Guitar Guidebook, I'd like to share some ideas, concepts, techniques, and grooves that I use when playing guitar in Neo Soul, Hip Hop, R&B, and the modern jazz styles of today. We'll dig into fresh timing approaches, soul phrasing, and I'll show you the typical chords that are used in these styles and various ways to voice them. We'll explore various fingerstyle techniques that you can use to spice up your guitar playing. We'll also talk about guitar sampling, where you approach live guitar playing the same way a hip-hop producer would use audio software or sampling equipment.”
Ronde is a member of several bands including New Cool Collective, Wouter Hamel, LaGarçon* and Les Cooles De Ville. Ronde is also a songwriter and music producer, working under the alias Kofi Anonymous. Ronde has performed his music all over the world and, fortunately for we students of guitar, is also a passionate educator. We are very excited to welcome Rory to the family with his first TrueFire course, the Neo Soul Guitar Guidebook!
Rory’s 8 Performance studies cover the range of techniques, feels, and chord progressions that are most common in the Neo Soul genre. For each study, Rory will first demonstrate the performance and then break it down for you emphasizing the key concepts and techniques in play.
All of the key examples and performance studies are tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes. You’ll also get Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop and/or slow down the tab and notation as you work through the lessons. Plus, Rory includes all of the backing tracks for you to work with on your own.
Grab your guitar and let’s get our Neo Soul groove on with Rory Ronde!
What you'll learn
- Hybrid picking technique
- Complex chord progression navigation
- Using chord variations in musical arrangements
- Learn to add movement within chord shapes
- Develop more dynamic chord playing techniques
Release date: 10/07/2017 • 1h 44m runtime
Sample lessons
Double Stops
Concept 6
Double Stops
Performance
Jazzy Summer
Performance
Jazzy Summer
Breakdown 1
What's included
33 lessons • 15 charts • 8 Jam Tracks
Neo Soul Guitar Guidebook
Hi, I'm Rory Ronde, and welcome to the Neo Soul Guitar Guidebook. In this course, I'd like to share some ideas, concepts, techniques, and grooves that I use when playing guitar in neo soul, hip hop, R&B, and the modern jazz styles of today. Bands like The Roots, D'Angelo, Slum Village, A Tribe Called Quest, and producers like J Dilla, Madlib and DJ Hi-Tek have taken a new and original approach to timing that has had a major impact on modern guitar playing.
We'll dig into this type of new soul phrasing and timing in several live performances, and I'll show you the typical chords that are used in these styles and ways to voice them. We'll explore various finger style techniques that you can use to spice up your guitar playing. For instance, how to use the thumb to play rhythm guitar. We'll also talk about guitar sampling, where you approach live guitar playing the same way a hip hop producer would use audio software or sampling equipment.
As always, each of these performances come with tabs, notation, and backing tracks, as well as a text description to go along with it. Okay, let's start groovin'!
We'll dig into this type of new soul phrasing and timing in several live performances, and I'll show you the typical chords that are used in these styles and ways to voice them. We'll explore various finger style techniques that you can use to spice up your guitar playing. For instance, how to use the thumb to play rhythm guitar. We'll also talk about guitar sampling, where you approach live guitar playing the same way a hip hop producer would use audio software or sampling equipment.
As always, each of these performances come with tabs, notation, and backing tracks, as well as a text description to go along with it. Okay, let's start groovin'!
Smile
With this song, I'd like to inspire and help you to add more soul and groove to your guitar playing. We'll be using the chord changes of this song as a starting point. These chords demonstrate the typical feel and style used in both hip hop and neo soul (and even jazz).
To be able to play this style naturally, we have to approach the subject not only from a harmonic perspective, but also rhythmically - which is equally important. The song is called "Smile", and I hope this exercise will make you smile as well!
To be able to play this style naturally, we have to approach the subject not only from a harmonic perspective, but also rhythmically - which is equally important. The song is called "Smile", and I hope this exercise will make you smile as well!
Smile
With this song, I'd like to inspire and help you to add more soul and groove to your guitar playing. We'll be using the chord changes of this song as a starting point. These chords demonstrate the typical feel and style used in both hip hop and neo soul (and even jazz).
To be able to play this style naturally, we have to approach the subject not only from a harmonic perspective, but also rhythmically - which is equally important. The song is called "Smile", and I hope this exercise will make you smile as well!
To be able to play this style naturally, we have to approach the subject not only from a harmonic perspective, but also rhythmically - which is equally important. The song is called "Smile", and I hope this exercise will make you smile as well!
Today
This is the guitar part for another song I wrote, called "Today". This is a hip hop song featuring thumb and octave playing in the tradition of the great Wes Montgomery. The second section of the song has some interesting voicings.
Today
This is the guitar part for another song I wrote, called "Today". This is a hip hop song featuring thumb and octave playing in the tradition of the great Wes Montgomery. The second section of the song has some interesting voicings.
Today
This is the guitar part for another song I wrote, called "Today". This is a hip hop song featuring thumb and octave playing in the tradition of the great Wes Montgomery. The second section of the song has some interesting voicings.
Fingerstyle Funk
When I play in this style of music, I often make use of fingerstyle techniques. Especially when playing unaccompanied guitar, fingerstyle can give you a lot of possibilities. This next funk groove is an introduction to this world of fingerstyle guitar.
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Reviews
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rodmusic
Verified buyer
12/12/22
Fantastic! Great info for syncopation.
briandelaney
Verified buyer
04/05/22
This is my favourite Truefire course thus far.
I just started with this course and I can't express how much I love it. Please Truefire, if you are listening, add more titles from Rory Ronde along with any other masters who can delve deep into modern grooves, displaced rhythms, hip-hop influences and modern arranging techniques. There is so much to sink your teeth into in this course. I plan on getting the SOuld Jazz Signatures course next!
sbuchelt
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03/25/21
great video, great lesson.
LinguaFranka
Verified buyer
11/14/19
Mmh Soul.
This course is another welcome addition to Truefire. A great combination of jazz, modern R&B and funk. Paired with cool grooves and interesting theoretical elements. What's not to like.
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