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Rhythm and Lead Fills For Acoustic Guitar Using Chord Shapes – EP320

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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play melodic fills and lead licks that are based on chord shapes. This is particularly helpful for those of you who are frustrated when trying to improvise and feel like your lead sounds too much like you’re just playing up and down a scale.

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Comments

  1. sunburst says

    I was just about to look at another lesson and here it is like a machine you are lol, another fun lesson and it is a happy kind of major summertime melody.. going to check this out tomorrow morning after a few walk throughs, very cool tones from your 000-15M

  4. Bill B says

    Great lesson Brian! I struggle with improvising on the fly and really look forward to digging into this one. I love the “why this works” part of your lessons. Excellent teaching!

  7. Tremelow says

    I can’t get enough of these rhtythm lessons. I’ve been experimenting with chord embellishments to take my rhythm playing to the next level, but further guidance and lick suggestions are not wasted on me. The first lick in this reminds me of ML 043, which has served me well already.

  12. Glenn says

    Thanks, Brian. Parsonblue has it right The name could be Summertime Melody or Sunburst melody. I love the grateful Dead slap dash rhythm and the superb tone. Julie is playing rhythm on her classical guitar and I am playing lead. Wow!
    Glenn and Julie

  15. Chris C says

    Thanks, Brian, this is a style of playing that I have been looking for for a very long time but really didn’t know what to call it. I hope that you will stay in this lane for a while and please teach us some of those triad fills.

    Chris

  17. Klickitat Jim says

    Precisely what I need! And “Yes Please” to a grab bag of maj and min triad licks in the future.

    I may take a break from learning/memorizing/mimicking lessons, and focus a bit on improv. Probably the only way I’ll improve.

  18. David L says

    Hi Brian, Thanks for all your great lessons. As well as looking forward to your new weekly lessons i’m Finding looking back through the past lessons there’s a lot i’ wasn’t ready for at the time or wasn’t into that style. Really getting into the Western swing, Chet Atkins style lessons and there’s quite a few to keep me busy for a while.

  19. Darryl J says

    I think these fill lessons are probably my favorite of all your great lessons. I think of it as playing the guitar like a piano player would play to complement a song. Great instruction as always.

    • Brian says

      They have changed the layout recently – so if you’re on a desktop or laptop you’ll still see the gear icon in the bottom right, if you’re on a tablet or mobile you’ll now see three little dots in the right corner. Click on that, and then you can see “Settings” – under settings you’ll be able to scroll that window and find everything you need.

  24. Les Brown says

    In the first few seconds of this lesson I just began to laugh out loud. From PURE JOY. Absolutely BEAUTIFUL. I spend a lot of money on some VERY great online guitar teachers. I don’t like to tag anyone as the BEST, because it just sounds so juvenile. But I’ll tell you what, Brian. When I want to learn something new on guitar, THIS IS THE SITE I VISIT FIRST. Every time. And you have NEVER disappointed me. Not once.

    Not to mention that your explanations always tie the new stuff into what I already know, and expand my understanding of the instrument in huge strides. When I play some of your compositions, people listening think I can play way better than I actually can. And THAT is a real kick!!!!

  25. Tom D says

    Hi Brian,

    Thanks for the information on using the new system for printing the music. I am using a desktop PC and I get the 3 dots, but I followed your instructions and it worked. I am having trouble playing fingerstyle in EP319. I used to be good at it, but that was a long time ago. Now that I have the music I can keep practicing until I master it. My biggest problem is muted strings caused by my finger touching the adjacent string when I try to play a chord arpeggio.

  28. drlknstein says

    man- nice backing track ,,,the mandolin is killer!..your getting pretty good on that – i think I remember when you said you just started playing it.
    .i mean this in the nicest way–
    – i review a lot of old lessons and you have come light years with the backing tracts- with th lessons too- I dont mean to say anything negative about the older ones..but it just gets better,,this is a good one too..lots of good ideas as usual. so thanks

  29. monica s says

    Brian, first of all, this was a fantastic lesson. Question for you, caged system D7, so the B7 and the E7 are the same chord? And I believe every three frets, like with diminished chords, it repeats. Is there a rule of substitution here? Again, what a great lesson.

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