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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to “compliment the band” by playing a soulful rhythm with rhythm fill licks. I’ll be playing everything by using only the top 3 strings on the guitar. This was done intentionally to show how creative you can be by playing off of simple 3 note chords (triads).
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Love the triads. What has perhaps made the most marked effect on my playing and sounding professional is incorporating triads and double stops.
Sometimes Brian, I think you are reading my mind with these lessons.
Great lesson.
I can us the practice with triads. I love the tone you’ve got that Tele dialed in to. Thanks for another great lesson
Always loved the sound of triads on the top three strings. I can hear a bit of Chet Atkins in this lesson. Great job !
H nice I love it how you are bringing out good playing in my fingers but I want to know if you can put out a lesson on how you come up with ever thing ..
Is this a new guitar, Brian? I think I haven’t seen her before.
Another cool one Brian great tone
Hi Brian, Absolutely Brilliant lesson, I just love playing triads, having this one for the rest of my playing life.
Good backing track, did you create it at home ?
Thanks again, Myra, East Midlands, UK .
Yep, drum machine – piano and bass (I played the bass on the keyboard as well for this one)
What drum machine do you use Brian?
Yet another great lesson with lots of takeaways. I haven’t used triads in this form much in the past, so this lesson will be a big step forward for me. Special thanks for letting us in (as usual!) on the tone settings. I would have never guessed that you are using reverb and overdrive to get this sound.
Whaouh .Great guitar ,Great song whith Hawaian (or Tahitian feeling).
I wish i could have exactly the same one .Don’t you Want to Sell me your’s Brian ??
Great lesson.
Many thanks.(Meanwhile i will be learning this song)
Joe.🎸🎸🎸🎸
Great lesson in Triads Brian. Some very nice take a-ways
Thanks
Ray P
Simplicity and Beautiful…
The color on my monitor is slightly off but if that Tele is Fiesta Red, with a cream pick guard, and Rosewood fretboard, I have always loved that color combination but seldom see it on a Tele. Great guitar!
You got it. Fiesta Red with a cream pickguard 🙂
I love it!!
you know we A RE LOOKING AT THAT GUITAR. I DONT REMEMBER SEEING IT BEFORE
.DON T WORRY WE GONNA PAY ATTENTION TO THE LESSON TOO- OFCOURSE.
.I HAVE A DAKOTA RED TELE….WHAT U GOT THERE?….U PROLLY GOT SOME SUPER DEAL….AGAIN. HA!
It’s a US standard Tele – circa 2000 – I got it a few months ago here in Nashville. Nothing special, stock pickups and everything.. but it plays like a dream 🙂
love this lesson, thanks!
quick question, though:
what is the ‘T in a circle’ tab symbol over the B note in the first Bm chord?
You may find this helpful, Anthony:
https://www.guitarchalk.com/guitar-tab-symbols-underused/
Really nice way to play a rhythm without just strumming chords. I watch guitar players filling in like this all the time when not doing a solo. Great lesson Brian!
Can you catalog your guitars for us? I can’t keep up anymore. That Tele sounds great!
Nice tele tones and the lesson fantastic ty again for another gem!
Great lesson. Thanks Brian.
Brian,
This is EXACTLY what I was talking about in our correspondence a few months back. Simple, yet packed with so much information! The hows, the whys, everything is there. And at my age, with arthritis and everything, something I can actually PLAY!
THANK YOU!
Chuck
When the C# lands in Part 1 I thought “that sounds like late Dylan”. Modern Times is one of a series of great Dylan albums that are fun to improvise over.
Dear Brian, I just wanted to tell you that on the strength of this (free) lesson, I decided to purchase the yearly subscription, which I did only today! I’ve been looking at a lot of excellent online teachers: Eric Andreas, Stich, Sean, Paul Davids, and even purchased their online courses, but your style of play and method of teaching fits me the best. Thank you brother.
Awesome Elad. Welcome!
Brian, I live in rural eastern North Carolina. My internet is being brought in by 5 gallon buckets by slow mules. Any way to get the videos to download so I can get them at work where internet speed is super fast, then I can watch them at home.
Thanks for the great lessons.
Michael F.
What a great lesson. These chord/ scale connections aren’t obvious to casual noodles like myself so the lightbulb definitely went off on this one. When you add in double stops and a few bends you’ve got a big piece of Nashville 101.
Many thanks…..ps, chorus + a touch of overdrive also works nicely on this one.
I’ve been playing for fifty years, mostly fingerstyle blues,delta,rags,paul simon etc. This video has been an absolute blast for me. And here’s why. I have always looked on solo (lead) playing as fingers dancing around the fretboard and as such have avoided it as being one more skill that was going to require way too much of my time; so why bother? So deciding ,for once in my life, to take the advice of another i tied the playing of this lesson to the actual chord shapes and positions provided. First by strumming along and then selectively infusing the ‘licks’ from inside the chord shapes provided. Viola…reducing the ‘dancing’ around factor by about 90%. Great lesson long overdue realized advice for me. Great product well worth the money spent.
Brian, Another great one. Keep them coming.Just what I need. David
Brian a very nice lesson again. If I had a wish it was a similar lesson with a standard 12 bar blues. I would love to see all these fill licks and connective tissue.
Best Thomas
Brian, Please do more like these when you can.Fantastic lesson,easier to learn faster,lots of fun to play. David
Love this piece. I usually try to turn these lessons into a little solo stand alone thing. Short, but fun. Still working on an ending to this one…
Great lesson Brian, i just got to get use to timing and note values but will get their thank you great lesson took awhile .
Brian, EP316 is the song that I’ am talking about in the first comment.
The Slice and Tab PDF is at 60 BPM as noted. However on the intro performance on YouTube he is floating on the One around 81 which gives it a more lively flow and spiffy tempo while still being very rhythm and yet it is not metronomic. The music breathes with his feel which attests to his skill level and although the pocket tempo fluctuates you would never know unless you tried to clock it or tap it with a metronome.