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Soulful Rhythm With Fill Licks (Using only the top 3 strings) – Rhythm Guitar Lesson – EP316

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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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Comments

  1. 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.

  7. 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 .

  8. 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.

  9. 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.🎸🎸🎸🎸

  12. 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!

  13. 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 🙂

  15. 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!

  18. 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

  20. 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.

  21. 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.

  22. 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.

  23. 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.

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