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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a percussive, chop style rhythm that also includes the bass line. This versatile rhythm is definitely not limited to Bluegrass and can be used in many styles (and tempos).
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Slow Walkthrough - Rhythm
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Slow Walkthrough - Lead
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Good stuff🤗🤗🤗
Thanks for this Brian! Love playing rhythm guitar .
Wow, that sounds great!
Brian I have to hand it to you. You can play it all! thanks for another great lesson
Yay Yay! The lead is included.
not only another great lesson but Brian brings the energy and passion!
Brian, Liking bluegrass more all the time thanks to your great teaching..Never thought I would like it this much. This is one of the best you have done in bluegrass. Thanks for your enthusiasm. Keep em coming. Dave
I really like this one but alas I am not up to this standard yet !
Thanks Brian.
Thanks again for a very enjoyable lesson, so much to take in – Rhythm, bass and percussion, happy days yet again 🙂
This lesson has inspired me to show my rhythm playing more love when I am jamming with another player! I have been overlooking the impact of incorporating a bass line and percussive element. Thank you Brian.
We are learning so much off your site amazing. Thanks Brian.
Another wonderful lesson! Love the chops and walking bass lines. Looking forward to getting into this one!
Thanks, Brian, for another very good lesson. Do you have any recommendations or suggestions, based on your years of experience, on how to increase my overall speed of absorbing new lesson material? Perhaps a method you have discovered? It often takes me weeks to memorize a new lesson, and even more weeks for it to sound like I know what I am doing.
Reassuring to know that some one else is sailing in my boat. However I am finding that with time there is repetition of significant learning points that reinforces the material.
Another instructor I study under recommends having a guitar (or multiple guitars) ready to grab everywhere in your house, and playing every second you can. An electric that is not plugged in (or a silent guitar… they make them) would mean you wouldn’t be heard if on the phone or whatever.
That was a great lesson, lots of great info on Rythm and Lead.
Thanks Brian
How about a Bosa Nova lesson?
Ditto.
Brian, I will not be renewing my enrolment to Active Melody when the renewal is due . I have been diagnosed with Parkinson disease and find it difficult to play guitar . I have looked forward to the lesson every week and have learnt a lot from you . You are an excellent teacher .
Best of luck with your endeavors
Denis Richard
Denis, I am sorry to hear of your diagnosis. I wish you the best as you learn to navigate a new world of what you can do. It is frustrating and tricky to discover what you are able to still do with new health issues. I hope you continue to love music and the great wonder it can bring to life. Best of luck to you as you continue to move forward on that Road to Find out!
Sandy
Wow! There is so much packed into this fantastic double-faceted lesson. Thanks Brian
The tab viewer is not working right, is it just me?
Would like to see a lesson on reading rest notes, couldn’t understand tab this lesson. 16ths note rests.
This is a great change of pace and exactly what I’ve been looking for. I played nothing but metal and rock for years and now I’m getting into country and bluegrass and this fits the bill! I will dissect the lead and try to figure out the scales but a few theory tips on the lead part would be a great addition next week.
Thank you and keep up the great work.
Mark
Brian, The Soundslice Audio if off by a few measures on the Rhythm part using an IPad. I didn’t try on a computer yet.
Brian, The Soundslice Audio doesn’t match up to the cursor on an iPad. It is off by several measures. It’s ok on a phone, but too small to see.
I hope, I’m not considered a heretic among the Active Melody community to mention the word “Banjo” but this tune just encouraged me to wake up my 5-string Banjo from years of hibernation and play along with it.
Brian, you are such a talented and gifted person – God bless you.
Greetings from Switzerland
In this lesson ep513 there is an A13 chord that has the same fingering as a B7 chord in lesson ep063 (the A is down a 2 frets from the B)
How does this work??
I’d love to hear your fiddle added to this track, Brian!! Versatility counts!! Jim C.
Love that lesson ! Also sounds like Benny Hill at the end of the show when everyone is chasing him 🤣
Me too, “Yaketty yak”
The lead bonus lead is worth persevering with, I really missed Brian explaining it tho’.
Thank you! Another great lesson.
Dang! This is a good’un.
What sets this one above the already high bar of excellence is the additional backing track and its tab & standard notation animation/play along.
… Ya done good Ol Man – yet again! 🙂
I’d love to see finger charts with the chords in the tab.
Another great lesson Brian that I thoroughly enjoyed and practiced.
Please consider doing a lesson on the lead breakdown
Love this style…I can already see how to incorporate this “bump” into some of my songs…love the key change!
Is the lead being played by using the “shape” lesson?
awesome, thanks for another one.
Thanks Brian…. Great lesson…. Another way I play the G cord in E shape instead of a bar on fret 3 is that I hook my thumb over to get the G on string 6 third fret..
Reminds me of the Benny HIll theme song.
More rhythm guitar the better!
Love this! Would love a lead bit break down 🙂 thank you!
Is there a lesson for the lead or just the tabs?
just the tabs
With regards to the choppy rhythm, I usually mute with my left hand, rather than the strumming hand. Is that perfectly ok?
I tried joining my local bluegrass group this week, was a lot of fun, and they treated me very well. But it was way too fast and hard to know the chord changes, luckily one can hide by playing quietly with palm mutes and sticking to 1 chord or root note when it gets fast. I definitely need to practice the basic rhythm chops in G, C and D shapes until i can do in my sleep. And in G shape, fret D on the second string to get the non-major sound. Then I’ll get onto the runs I’ve been practicing at home, but in the bar I was just keeping up with the fast chord changes.