NEW The 19th lesson of "Rhythm Guitar" continues with a practice routine that has the sessions include composition. These final remaining Rhythm Guitar episodes not only include stylistic examples, but they also include a section for students to create their own original rhythm jams. A bonus for BASIC and PREMIUM web-site members are the (9) MP3 play-along tracks that will help with learning each rhythm example.
Paid Web-site members (BASIC and PREMIUM), can watch the associated video lessons and download the detailed PDF handout, along with the MP3 clap /strum play-along tracks...
Join the member's areato download the PDF handout and MP3's. Study all of the examples with full access to both video lessons. Be sure to spend some additional time on learning the "Rhythm Jam Challenge" piece that I performed at the start of the lesson in the "Part One" video... EPISODE 19: The lesson plan for episode 19 is focused upon performing rhythms found in the Ska and Reggae guitar styles. Four examples in the lesson will focus on covering; the "Skank" Guitar Groove found in "Ska" music, the Reggae grooves of the "Double and Single hit Reggae beat and the famous "One-Drop" Reggae feel.
Plus, I've also included a section covering 3rd-wave "Ska-Punk" featuring the "Up-Stroke Ska" groove.
PART ONE (free on YouTube):Example one runs through the sound and feel of Ska's "Skank Guitar" rhythmic style. This groove applies tight back-shots that accent the up-attack of each beat across the measure. PART TWO:In example two, the groove is based upon tight double-shots found in the Reggae style. This rhythm approach is often called the "Double-Hit /Single-Hit" rhythm and can be heard in many songs. One of the legendary players who uses this groove often is Bob Marley.
PART THREE:
Example three demonstrates the guitar parts that are typically performed with the "One-Drop" Reggae beat pattern. It applies a single measure phrase operating with recurring 8th-notes off of beats "2" and "4." The 8th-notes are applied using a strong accent made upon the down-beat, along with a weaker staccato attack made on the up-beat.
PART FOUR:Example four involves the use of another one-bar phrase that centers around 8th-notes performed with a slight shuffle feel. This groove is based on the heavy accent of the down-beat of, "1," along with the up-beat accents of beats "2 and 3."
Posted by Andrew Wasson
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Have you become bored with doing simple chord strumming? Are you ready to move your chord playing up to the next level and really spice up your playing? Well... You're in luck! This lesson is going to be fantastic for you and for your rhythm playing!
In this lesson, I’ll run through a number of ways that you can practice rhythm guitar using ideas that will work to enhance the chord progressions that you play as you're performing one chord moving into another. The methods that we’ll study will include how to add, “Single-note Bass Runs and Fills,” adding, “Connecting Bass Lines,” using, “Alternate Bass Notes,” and how to add the articulated sounds of “Arpeggio-Style Patterns.” WATCH THE VIDEO:
Example #1).
Single-Note Bass Lines
Example #2a).
Picking Across Chords with Arpeggio-Like Patterns.
(Simple)
Example #2b).
Picking Across Chords with Arpeggio-Like Patterns.
(Complex)
Example #3).
Chromatic Passing Chords
Example #4).
Connecting Bass-Line and Alternate Bass-Notes
CONCLUSION: Adding subtle articulations to your chord progressions will give you the sound of smoother and better connected chord changes. It’s a fairly easy technique to add in, plus many of these can be added all at the same time – and used together. The result will end up producing a sound to your chord progressions that will come across as if you’re performing a two-part arrangement, but done all on your own. The best part is, that these techniques can be done using finger-style, or they could be played pick-style done entirely using your flat-pick. So, give these ideas a try because adding in these techniques will really go a long way to help you spice up your chord progressions. As always, thanks for joining me, if you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up and subscribe for more, (and remember to hit that bell when you subscribe so that you’ll never miss any of my lesson uploads to YouTube).
VISIT THE WEB-SITE: Hey, guys I just wanted to let you know about the guitar courses I have over on my website at CreativeGuitarStudio.com. I’ve got step-by-step; Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced courses that work alongside of in-depth elective programs to form the best guitar courses available. My courses work fantastic to help you learn to identify what's required to get you up to that next level of guitar playing, in a very organized step-by-step way, that totally makes sense. So, I look forward to helping you further at my website; CreativeGuitarStudio.com Until next time, take care and we'll catch up again on the next lesson. Bye for now!
NEW This unique Creative Guitar Studio course explores exercises for increasing dexterity and coordination between the hands. The goal of the course is to increase awareness, mobility and control.
Lesson 018 of Guitar Technique studies the technique and practical application of, "3 Note Per String" scale patterns.
The application of "3 Note Per String" Scales adopts a seven pattern breakdown of the neck in where each fingering shape applies three notes on each guitar string. This opens up the possibility for performing very fast scale runs using triple meter feel, (i.e., 8th and 16th-note triplets).
Examples of all seven scale shapes are provided within this lesson plan. They are positioned from off of the "Major Key" Tonic note.
The patterns and examples will work to help establish solid control over the basic principles required when performing licks and runs using the 3 note per string scale shapes.
The video lessons (along with the PDF handout), will help to clarify how 3 note per string scale techniques can be developed and then applied onto the guitar in several unique ways.
Part one and two of the lesson will focus on laying out scale patterns /runs, along with building 3 note per string accuracy. Part three and four of the lesson will apply the 3 Note Per String scales within lines and articulated licks.
Paying members of the Creative Guitar website can watch both video lessons and download the PDF handout...
Join the member's area to download the PDF handout and start study of these exercises. Study all of the examples with full access to both video lessons...
Most guitar players - even those with good technical skill - will often have a terrible ear. The reason (in most cases) is the students lack of dedication to the study of ear training. Why? ...Well, mostly it's because studying ear training is a combination of being very boring and very difficult. If you've let ear training slide in your own musical skill set, then this lesson will be absolutely fantastic...
Developing ear training skills can be a pretty tough study as far as music skills go. Ear training ability can take a long time to grow on you as a musician and there will be hours of in-depth study that will involve several other music training areas which you’ll need to fully develop before you have a complete handle on being able to listen and learn songs by ear. And, that doesn't even include learning the chords that fit into a piece of music, transposing and being able to properly chart rhythms and musical notation so that you have the ability to write out your songs in proper, traditional chart-copy form... The good news is that any musician can learn how to do this. However, it does require a lot of long hours in order to gain the technical skill for being able to learn and copy out recorded music strictly by ear! Sometimes, people neglect to do certain types of musical training because the study of it, itself seems far too simplistic. And, Ear Training is certainly an area that falls into this type of category. When it comes to ear training, the initial work seems so simplistic that musicians often blow it off and don’t bother studying it at all. This isn't good, because in order to be able to learn how to recognize notes, chords and rhythm, you’re going to have to start at the very basics. This means doing analysis and transcription of the most simple melody lines and harmony parts. These types of lines are most common to and most popular within the works of children’s melodies. This means that children’s melodies are some of the best songs for the initial study of ear training. In this lesson, we're going to focus on common children’s melodies, and as you watch the video with the ear training segments, I’d like you to stop the recording as much as you feel that you need to in order to learn this melody by ear. WATCH THE VIDEO:
IMPORTANT: Don’t rush to looking at the answers here in the Blog-Post page at the first signs of adversity. If you rush to the answers and look at the music right away, you'll defeat the purpose of working on these exercises. Instead, listen to the video and learn each melody by ear... to the best of your ability. Even if it takes you a while to learn it. Do it by ear - that's the exercise.
HEARING SONG MELODIES (Part 1): Our first study isn’t a very hard melody to learn, but you'll probably need to jump back in the video clip several times in order to hear the song parts played over and over. This is perfectly normal, even for the pros! Study 1). Arrorró Mi Niño
DEVELOPING CHORD PROGRESSIONS: Once you’ve developed the ability to hear the simple melodic lines of a children’s melody (like the one above), it’s time to also start learning what chords would fit along with the melody line. This is where the use of the “I-IV-V” harmony concept in chord progressions can really come in handy. You can use the I-IV-V chord harmony to apply a backing chord progression over any melodic line. Practice doing this and try to hear what that might sound like if you were to go ahead and play a “I-IV-V” series of chords over the melody above.
HEARING SONG MELODIES (Part 2): Now, that you’ve spent some time trying to learn a melody, and you’ve had some experience learning a backing chord progression (associated to the melodic phrases), let’s try all of this again using another simple children’s melody. Once again, start by listening closely to the melody line, focus on trying to learn it by ear. Remember to stop the video as much as you need to when you’re transcribing the melody… Study 2). On the Bridge of Avignon
Learning a melody along with a set of backing chords is good work, in fact its more than that, it’s incredibly valuable. But, you unfortunately can’t stop there. You’ll need to take your ear training studies a few steps further in order to be able to really build your ear training ability up to much higher levels. Two further steps I’d like you to take (beyond learning the single-note melody lines and the backing chord changes), will be learning how to accurately write out the rhythms and learning how to properly notate the piece in traditional music notation (not TAB).
TRANSPOSING: Along with melody work, I also want to add in learning how to transpose any song over to another key. Why? Because being able to do all of these additional tasks will lift you from being a guitar player, up to being a musician! And, that is a great place to be. In study 3, we'll take that last piece we practiced and play it in another key. I’d like for you to listen to this new rendition and learn the new key signature that it was transposed into… Study 3). On the Bridge of Avignon (transposed)
CONCLUSION: Learning ear training skills can be a pretty tough study as far as music training will go. Ear training ability can take a long time to grow on you as a musician and there will be hours of in-depth study that will involve several other music training areas that you’ll need to fully develop before you really have a complete handle on being able to listen and learn songs by ear. That includes learning the chords that fit across a piece of music and being able to properly chart rhythms and musical notation so that you have the ability to one day write out music in proper chart-copy form. The good news is that any dedicated musician can learn how to do this. But, it does require a lot of patience and long hours in order to gain the technical skill for being able to learn and copy out recorded music strictly by ear and by ear alone.
VISIT THE WEB-SITE: As always, thanks for joining me, if you liked this lesson, please give it a thumbs up and subscribe for more on YouTube, (and remember to hit that bell when you subscribe so that you’ll never miss any of my uploads to YouTube). Until next time, take care and we'll catch up again on the next lesson. Also, I should let you know about the guitar courses over on my website at CreativeGuitarStudio.com. I’ve got step-by-step; Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced courses that work alongside of in-depth elective programs to form the best guitar course available online. The courses work to help you learn to identify what's required to get you up to that next level of guitar playing, in a very organized step-by-step way, that makes sense. So, I look forward to helping you further at CreativeGuitarStudio.com
Posted by Andrew Wasson
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Do you know the most popular chord progressions that get used over and over again in popular music of the last 100 years? If not, you're short-changing your harmonic knowledge, plus you're also short-changing your ear...
In this lesson we’re going to explore seven common Major key chord progressions that originate out of the six steps of our major key harmony. These degrees include the chords that exist on the first through sixth scale steps, (these jams will exclude the 7th step Dim. Chord). WATCH THE LESSON:
PROGRESSIONS: The chord movements that we’re going to work on are ones which get used in thousands of different songs and they make up a serious part of all of the music styles that are used today. In this lesson, I’ve decided to focus on seven specific chord progressions that are incredibly common and found in all kinds of popular music. BONUS: As a bonus, I also mention optional "Secondary Dominant" chord applications that you can slip in to spice things up. Progression #1).
The “I, VI, IV, V” progression. (Key of “C”). Optional Secondary Dominant Chord is “A7.” (VI-chord)
Progression #2).
The “I, VI, II, V” progression. (Key of “C”). Optional Secondary Dominant Chord is “D7.” (II-chord)
Progression #3).
The “I, II, IV, V” progression. (Key of “C”). Optional Secondary Dominant Chord is “D7.” (II-chord)
Progression #4).
The “I, II, VI, V” progression. (Key of “C”). Optional Secondary Dominant Chords are either the, “D7,”
the (II-chord), along with the “A7,” (VI-chord). You can use one of the other, but probably not both.
Progression #5).
The “I, III, II, V” progression. (Key of “C”). Optional Secondary Dominant Chords are either the, “E7,”
the (III-chord), along with the “D7,” (II-chord).
Progression #6).
The “I, III, VI, V” progression. (Key of “C”). Optional Secondary Dominant Chords are either the, “E7,”
the (III-chord), along with the “A7,” (VI-chord).
Progression #7).
The “I, III, IV, V” progression. (Key of “C”). Optional Secondary Dominant Chords is the, “E7,” the (III-chord).
STUDY AND PRACTICE: Practicing the examples that I’ve included (here in this lesson), will help you learn, understand and perform progressions from a lot of the popular simple chord jams that tend to get used within the structure of thousands and thousands of popular songs. Once you learn to hear these chord movements, your ear will improve and you’ll find that you’ll be able to spot these and similar harmonic movements faster, (which will have the welcome extra benefit of improving your ear). And that being said, I should also mention that learning these popular progressions will also work to help you to develop the highly sought after musical skill that’s known of as, “Transcription.”
CONCLUSION: So, work on these chord progressions and develop your chords, your rhythm guitar and your ear. The benefits of this type of chord jamming work are absolutely amazing, which makes them well worth all the effort involved. VISIT THE WEB-SITE: As always, thanks for joining me, if you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up and subscribe for more on YouTube, (and remember to hit that bell when you subscribe so that you’ll never miss any of my lesson uploads to my YouTube channel)… I also wanted to stop for a moment to let you know about the guitar courses I have over on my website at CreativeGuitarStudio.com. I’ve got step-by-step; Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced courses that work alongside of in-depth elective programs to form the best guitar courses available. My courses work fantastic to help you learn to identify what's required to get you up to that next level of guitar playing, in a very organized step-by-step way, that totally makes sense. So, I look forward to helping you further at my website; CreativeGuitarStudio.com
NEW The 19th lesson of "Rhythm Guitar" continues with a practice routine that has the sessions include composition. These final remaining Rhythm Guitar episodes not only include stylistic examples, but they also include a section for students to create their own original rhythm jams.
PART THREE:
