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Rhythm Guitar Course Content
Lesson 1: Getting Started with Groove
- Note and Rest Values
- Constructing and Tailoring Original Guitar Grooves
- Chord Types and Forms: Root 5 and Root 6 of Major7, Minor7, Dominant7, Dominant
7#9 and Dominant7sus4.
Lesson 2: Constructing Grooves with Movable Chord Forms
- Chord Types: Dominant 7th and Dominant 79
- Dominant 79 Chord Tones
- Practicing Movable Forms
- Cream – Toad
- Herbie Hancock
- Jamming for Fun
- Electronic Jam in C
- Funky Groove in E
Lesson 3: Creating Grooves with Dominant 7 Chords
- Unique Ways to Get Inspiration
- Gov't Mule: Mr. Big
- James Brown: Papa Don't Take No Mess
- John Scofield: Hottentot
- Herbie Hancock: Hang Up Your Hang Ups
- Warm-Up Exercises
Lesson 4: Muted Rhythms and Scratch Guitar
- Muted Rhythms and Scratch Guitar
- Muted Rhythm Exercise
- How to Develop an Original Style
- Minor 7 and Minor 79 Chords
- Jazz Funk Loop
- Soulive – Flurries
Lesson 5: Combining Chord Forms and Rhythm
- Minor 7 Chord with Tension 11
- Dominant 7 (sus4) with Tensions 4 and 11
- Popular Muted Rhythms
- Flood in Franklin Park by Grant Green
Lesson 6: Sixteenth-Note Rhythms
- Constructing Grooves
- Hottentot with added bridge
- Rhythm Practice Tips
- Playing Exercise: Muted Rhythms with Sixteenth Notes
- Uberjam
- Scofield: I Break for Monster Booty
Lesson 7: String Combinations, Picking Lines, and Double-Stops
- Learning New Licks
- More on Major7th
- Diatonic Harmony
- Major 7 Loops
- Muted Rhythm Exercises
- Rhythm Guitar Techniques
Lesson 8: Converging Concepts in Rhythm
- Converging Concepts in Rhythm Technique
- Eighth- and Sixteenth-Note Rhythm Combinations
Lesson 9: Triplets and Diatonic Harmony
- Diatonic Harmony with Tensions
- Triplet Introduction
- Triplet Exercise
- Picking Lines
- Picking Line Degree Chart
Lesson 10: Bass Lines and Effects
- Fourths
- Bass Ideas
- Eighth-Note Triplets
- Rhythm Exercises
- Adding Note Patterns
- Eighth Note Triplets in 3/4 Time
Lesson 11: Right-Hand Snap and Rhythm Duets
- Suggestions for practicing rhythmic duets
- More picking lines
- Right-Hand Pluck and Snap
Lesson 12: Putting it All Together
- More Rhythm Patterns
- 4-Bar Patterns
- Open Strings within Chord Forms
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