Rhythm Guitar Course Content

Lesson 1: Getting Started with Groove

• Note and Rest Values
• Constructing and Tailoring Original Guitar Grooves
• Chord Types and Forms: Root 5 and Root 6 of Major7, Minor7, Dominant7, Dominant 7#9 and Dominant7sus4.

Lesson 2: Constructing Grooves with Movable Chord Forms

• Chord Types: Dominant 7th and Dominant 79
• Dominant 79 Chord Tones
• Practicing Movable Forms
• Cream – Toad
• Herbie Hancock
• Jamming for Fun
• Electronic Jam in C
• Funky Groove in E

Lesson 3: Creating Grooves with Dominant 7 Chords

• Unique Ways to Get Inspiration
• Gov't Mule: Mr. Big
• James Brown: Papa Don't Take No Mess
• John Scofield: Hottentot
• Herbie Hancock: Hang Up Your Hang Ups
• Warm-Up Exercises

Lesson 4: Muted Rhythms and Scratch Guitar

• Muted Rhythms and Scratch Guitar
• Muted Rhythm Exercise
• How to Develop an Original Style
• Minor 7 and Minor 79 Chords
• Jazz Funk Loop
• Soulive – Flurries

Lesson 5: Combining Chord Forms and Rhythm

• Minor 7 Chord with Tension 11
• Dominant 7 (sus4) with Tensions 4 and 11
• Popular Muted Rhythms
• Flood in Franklin Park by Grant Green

Lesson 6: Sixteenth-Note Rhythms

• Constructing Grooves
• Hottentot with added bridge
• Rhythm Practice Tips
• Playing Exercise: Muted Rhythms with Sixteenth Notes
• Uberjam
• Scofield: I Break for Monster Booty

Lesson 7: String Combinations, Picking Lines, and Double-Stops

• Learning New Licks
• More on Major7th
• Diatonic Harmony
• Major 7 Loops
• Muted Rhythm Exercises
• Rhythm Guitar Techniques

Lesson 8: Converging Concepts in Rhythm

• Converging Concepts in Rhythm Technique
• Eighth- and Sixteenth-Note Rhythm Combinations

Lesson 9: Triplets and Diatonic Harmony

• Diatonic Harmony with Tensions
• Triplet Introduction
• Triplet Exercise
• Picking Lines
• Picking Line Degree Chart

Lesson 10: Bass Lines and Effects

• Fourths
• Bass Ideas
• Eighth-Note Triplets
• Rhythm Exercises
• Adding Note Patterns
• Eighth Note Triplets in 3/4 Time

Lesson 11: Right-Hand Snap and Rhythm Duets

• Suggestions for practicing rhythmic duets
• More picking lines
• Right-Hand Pluck and Snap

Lesson 12: Putting it All Together

• More Rhythm Patterns
• 4-Bar Patterns
• Open Strings within Chord Forms