Get In The Pocket Lesson

Get In The Pocket - Backbeat R&B

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  • -Guitar Lesson:
    This is a Lesson for Advanced Guitar Player. Here I show you how to play a song using the backbeat, playing in the 'weak' part of the pulse, leaving the strong part silently. This is also referred to as playing "in the pocket". I have also worked the change of tempo to double speed without changing the measurement beat, passing from binary to ternary notation. I hope you like and enjoy it. If you have any questions you can ask me.

    -Music Style:
    Hard Rhythm and blues, Rock Blues

    -Tonality:
    E

    -Techniques:
    Back Beat, phrasing, Bending, Hybrid Picking

    -Sound:
    I play a TELECASTER Hot Rod 52 and Mesa Boogie Single Rectifier, Clean channel + Plexi sat, sm57.

    -Tuning:
    Standard tuning: E,A,D,G,B,E

    -Tempo & Beat:
    70pm (slow 35bpm)
    4/4
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