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I am excited to see this new forum. Here is my first submission. I think the best way to learn is to be able to teach it. If you can teach it you know it. Here is a video on how to comp organ shuffles on guitar. I used a Neo Vent pedal for the organ effect. Please let me know if you liked it or have any questions. I will do some more – this will be fun .
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Nice lesson Barry.
Joe
The sight of a touch, or the scent of a sound,
Or the strength of an Oak with roots deep in the ground.
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Barry,
I often admire your rhythm focused videos. Thank you for taking us through these variations for effective rhythm playing.
Rhythm never gets enough focus. This is exactly what we envisioned for this category in the forum.
Thanks for getting us off to a great start. Your teaching was clear and concise. Please continue to be a regular contributor.John
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Barry, that was very enlightening. I knew about the interval of a tritone, but not in context of a two note chord. So I most definitely learned something new here. It’s amazing that all three two note cords in the progression are so close together and share the same shape on the same exact strings.
Now that I look at this closer, this looks to be the same thing as shell chords? Your just using the official way to name them from a theory standpoint. I like the name shell because it implies the smallest structure of a chord to sound like the full chord but it’s good to know the reason behind why they work the way they do since the interval is in fact a tritone interval in harmony.
G7 can also have the third on the top using the 5th and 4th strings using the exact same shape only now it’s on the 2nd and 3rd frets. In that case, the I IV V structure will look very familiar to most of us. i.e. the IV is under the I, and V is up two frets.
Another thing I noticed is that if you were to complete the standard full C-shaped 7 chord for the G7 shell chord, it’s root is a C#. And guess what interval that is from G? Yep, it’s a tritone. The significance of that is if the bass player were to play a C# note, that G7 shell chord instantly turns into a C#7 chord.
Go slow and practice correct technique, and your abilities will dramatically improve.
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Learning the functions of the tritone was a light bulb moment (as Brian would say) for me – not just in my rhythm playing but also my lead playing. I am not familiar with shell voicing – I tend to think of them as partial chords. Learning my triads helped then taking it a step further to change the basic triads to different extensions really changed things. Glad you liked it
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Barry, Thank you. Great explanation. This prompted me to visit your You Tube channel. Pouring Water On A Drowning Man is an incredible soulful blues. If you could share the progression and chord voicing on this song I’d really appreciate it.
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I actually learned that song for a show I was playing with Malford Milligan. I can’t remember it now I would have to brush up on it. I think it was pretty straightforward. If you like those old soul tunes go to YouTube and look up the user Mnaicck. He has this tune and a bunch more. His channel is excellent. I have learned a lot there
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