Play Blues Guitar 8: Advanced Rhythm Principles

Welcome to Play Blues Guitar 8: Advanced Rhythm Principles for late intermediate to advanced students of blues guitar.

This Blues Learning Path core course is presented by 5 top TrueFire educators: Robben Ford, Andy Timmons, Jeff Scheetz, David Blacker, and Brad Carlton.

The Advanced Rhythm Principles curriculum is comprised of select blues guitar lessons from the educators' existing TrueFire course libraries.

Guitarists with advanced rhythm guitar skills write their own ticket with respect to paying or playing opportunities. Other musicians love to round out their rhythm section with solid, versatile rhythm guitarists. Pros will always get the most lucrative gigs, and amateurs will always get to play with the very best. The video guitar lessons in this core course will focus on strengthening and broadening your rhythm skills to an advanced level.

Play Blues Guitar 8: Advanced Rhythm Principles is organized into 2 sections. In the first section, you'll tackle concepts like Guide Tones, Comping Principles and Motivic Development. Jazzy Blues is the focus of the second section where you will learn to swing and add some more interesting chords to your arsenal.

When you've completed the lessons here in Advanced Rhythm Principles, you'll find more lessons focused on rhythm in Advanced Rhythm Approaches, also a Play Blues Guitar 8 core course.

The educators demonstrate all of the key examples over jam tracks (where and when applicable) to simulate a real-world application, in a musical context. All of the key examples are also tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes.

You'll also get Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop or slow down the tab and notation as you work through the lessons. Plus, you'll have all of the available jam tracks to work with on your own.

Take as much time as you need to work through each video guitar lesson before moving on to the next lesson. If you want to dig deeper or wider into any of the topics covered in this core course, check out the recommended supplementary courses in your learning path where you'll find more examples, techniques and insight from top TrueFire educators.

Grab your guitar and let's get started!