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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a rock, blues rhythm that sounds great on it’s own (no accompaniment needed). This lesson is designed to give you rhythm strumming and fill lick ideas to make you better at writing and improvising rhythm guitar.
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Hi Brain
This one will go down very well thanks. Just the sort of lesson to help me get fluency up very useful and straight into the favorites
JohnStrat
Very good lesson
Hey Brian. This one is already inspiring my bag of licks !!!
Love these stand-alone compositions that help us with improvising and writing rhythm guitar and fill licks. Thanks Brian, for another great composition and lesson.
Rick
Great lesson on the rhythm, Brian! I find playing rhythm guitar the most difficult (never did my guitar rhythm 101 🙂 and this just reminds me that this is something I need to work on in the nearest future. Thank you for giving us such a variety here, something for everyone!
Love the rhythm and can’t wait to get into this one. thanks Brain!
Love this one….
Every time you end your first performance of a song there’s a smile on my face. Every time for three years now. Thank you for that smile.
Brilliant, thank you!I have been playing for years, and in all that time have fudged my way around this type of playing. I never really thought my way into the detail as it wasn’t really my thing and I just managed to cover up with something basic if needed. This sounds great and should really put some confident sounds into that rock 101 which I’ve been missing.
Awesome lesson Brian, thanks so much
Awesome! This one has everything. Another essential rhythm lesson for me. Has Monthly Challenge all over it.
SF
Yes indeed Larry and as humble as he be devotional to the forums too..he is doing great with this site… keeping at it my friend learning here😀
Thanks again and this lesson is so cool.. understand the ways you you are impliment weekly lessons too both forums and lessons.. simply outstanding balance Brian😀
Simply great! Ian said what I was thinking. Now I cant’ wait to get into part 2. Thanks for another happy week Brian!
yeah nice!
nice tribute to tony joe white ..the swamp fox.
Love it, so soulful and reminds me of the mid sixties!
So soulful, reminds me of the mid sixties!
I love 💗 this, brings back reflections of the mid sixties!
A great rhythm Brian, with lots of great takeaways
Thanks
Ray p
Nice. I really think this would be a good candidate for a “Part 2.” You could add/expand more fill licks-including some more in closed positions that would be moveable to other keys.
RIP Tony Joe White ,, man I remember his tunes but never knew who he was(guitarists/singer/musician/artist) anyway he looked alike like Elvis Presley and with those sideburns especially,, played good harp good deep vocals great song writer artist rhythm guitarist,, reminds me a bit of John Fogerty and like to see some more John Fogerty extensions too! Enjoying this lesson now! thanks Brian!
Love the vibe and thyrhmic energy, another eight bar blues?
I am convinced that Brian has got a second guitar going that he is playing with his toes!
Annother inspiring micro lesson to help me play and practice at the same time to get back on my standard tunng playing routine after playing in open E for so long…
Great
Brian great lesson (as always); can I get a copy of this piece in standard notation?
Brian, you really made my day with this lesson! I used to play this sort of thing back in 1977 using the open strings to add notes and volume to the piece. I did not add that much fill but only because I couldn’t. I can and will now though. The background in your theory explanations was of real benefit to me, and I soaked it all up. Wondering if you can add a very long Southern rock type solo an octave up the neck beginning in the 12th fret E scale position and maybe chase the cordal changes while the rhythm plays just the melody without fills? I am a member of your site and I would really like to see an explosion of the lead guitar soloing like Blackfoots Hiway Song to make this an overly exceptional rock song to remember the old Southern Rock days for the premium members? For me, this would be a really big deal especially packed with theoretical explanations of what could be possible. It could even be a paid lesson video you could offer/sell to all those interested. Do you understand what I mean? Like an anatomy instruction of building the structure for a song, lead, rhythm, theory etc. I would buy something like that in a heartbeat.
Another great lesson, Brian. The more of this stuff I play, the younger I get!
Is it just me, but the audio seems to stop in the on-screen tab viewer over halfway thru.
EP 281 is so awesome & I can’t wait to learn & master it . It is right up there with EP 254!!!!! This is the NIGHTCRAWLER & I love them both !
This is a fun lesson. Any chance of recording a snippet of it, or more, on an acoustic? I would love to hear how it would sound.
At 13:36 in part 1 isn’t that box the bottom part of pattern 2 Maj. Pent.?
Sorry but I do try to get this. I love what you do!!
Pattern 3.
Hi Brian , l am a bass player and been playing in bands for almost 50years !! And looking at your web site has inspired me to buy a Les paul traditional and a fender strat and start learning lead !! I am really grateful to you for your excellent web site which is also great value for money too. So l would just like to say thank you !!!
This is probably the best lesson I have seen and used in a very long time! The Tony White lick, the harmonized thirds, and the I IV V transition lick are excellent tools!
Thanks for this lesson Brian!
Hi Brian and all you other happy guitar players. I am 62 and would love to play this piece of music but I really struggle with this B (fingers spread over 4 bars). I just physically can’t do this. Maybe I have arthritis. Is there an alternative to this chord? Looking forward to hearing from you.
Cheers
Markus
Hi Marcus,
I also can not make that stretch, I jump down to the 7th fret, 6 string root position.
Hope that helps.
Hi Sharon – yep, helps. Much appreciated! Thanks a lot.
Hi Markus, You can always play it on the 5th and 6th strings at the 7th fret.
Great – thanks ever so much, Steven. Cheers mate.
Super lesson 🙂
This one is REALLY good. Even my wife likes it
….and she is extremely hard to please2😎
Hi Brian. I would like to see something like this or the Muddy Waters lesson in the key of A. I like these kinds of sounds and feeling but it doesn’t transfer well to other keys – at least for me. Thanks.
This rock/blues type of sound is out of this world for me to play and at a similar tempo Brian. This was the sound I tried to play back in the early sixties!! (shows my age!) with my group, but failed miserably………. Now I can with confidence, many many thanks Brian.
Loads more of this please.
What do I do to find lesson 2 of posting. For example, lesson 281 part 1 I have finished but how do I access part 2?
Simply Amazing. Brian, your teaching style is crystal clear. This episode is jam-packed with goodies to use. I really like the way you have put your composition out there to demonstrate different licks that can be called upon later. Bravo Brian. BTW. the bar by bar replay, slowdown, speed up. WOW! Thank you. I already feel as I’ve gained so much knowledge and confidence!
Brian,
This is a great rhythm lesson.
Thank you very much.