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This first part will address the following topics: Drop D, Riffing, Palm Muting, Alternate Picking Dexterity, Drop D Power Chord Knowledge.
Tags: Drop D Riffing, Palm Muting, Alternate...
This part takes a step back to the basics of Rock/Metal Rhythm Guitar, a technique that every whythm guitar player should know: Palm Muting.
Tags: Palm Muting, Right Hand Stamina, Time...
This part is in the style of Robben Ford, and will prepare you for a virtual band situation. Playing with an hammond player, you have to create a complementary guitar parts that will melt with the other instruments, with out interfering with the piano/key part.
Tags: Right Hand, Coordination, Blues, Left hand...
In terms of harmonic structure, Bossa Nova has a great deal in common with jazz, in its sophisticated use of seventh and extended chords. Bossa Nova is most commonly performed on the nylon-string classical guitar, played with the fingers rather than with a pick.
Tags: samba, Bossa Nova, jazz, Chords, Fingerstyle,...
This part is a modern rock/progressive arrangement that uses muted arpeggios and substitutions, to create background harmony and rhythmic value.
Tags: Right Hand Picking, Palm Muting, Arpeggio
Funk is an American musical style that originated in the mid- to late-1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, soul jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music.
Tags: funk basics, scratching, left hand muting
This part will improve your left hand muting, right/left hand coordination and strumming.
Tags: Left Hand Muting, coordination, strumming
Like much of African inspired music, funk typically consists of a complex groove with rhythm instruments such as electric guitar, electric bass, Hammond organ, and drums playing interlocking rhythms.
Tags: Muting, Coordination, Strumming
We will start scratching (ghost note) all sixteenth-notes (four per beat) with a constant down/up strumming, muting the strings laying lightly an E9 chord (the James Brown Chord), and adding pressure to play different accents.
Tags: funk, funky, funk rhythm, triplets, right...
This is the easiest lesson on Arpeggiated Chords, where all the notes were played in sequences, from the lowest one to the highest. The picking motion is not the constant alternate one you are accustomed to, but follows the same rules of economy picking.
Tags: arpeggio, rhythm, sus4, sus
The second lesson on Arpeggiated chords, we will keep to analyze and practice in a musical way the most common patterns from simple to complex.
Tags: arpeggio, rhythm
Practicing the right hand movement, alone, even stopping all six strings with left hand, will make you learn this pattern faster.
Tags: arpeggio, rhythm
The final lesson in this series covering arpeggiated Chords.
Tags: arpeggio, rhythm