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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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Musical Quotes
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
~Leopold Stokowski

Music is love in search of a word.

~Sidney Lanier

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
~Berthold Auerbach

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding, sings.
~Ed Gardnerv

The fact that the public in general does not understand and appreciate the best things is the reason people like me get famous.
~Brahms

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
~George Bernard Shaw

Without music life would be a mistake.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

Music that gentlier on the spirit lies,Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson

Music expresses that which cannot be said and that which cannot remain silent.
~Victor Hugo

If music be the food of love; play on.
~William Shakespeare

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
~Plato

Classical music is the kind that we keep hoping will turn into a tune.
~Kin Hubbard

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
~Confucius

Silence is the fabric upon which the notes are woven.
~Lawrence Duncan

The pause is as important as the note.
~Truman Fisher




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