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Soulful and Melodic Rhythm and Fills (Patreon)

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2024-03-08 18:38:50
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Hi everyone!

In this week's lesson I'm exploring some rhythm guitar options over a simple 4 chord pattern. I wanted to try and come up with some catchy, melodic parts, loosely in the soul/r&b kind of style. I talk about some of my favourite rhythm guitar strategies: triads (obviously!), simple arpeggios, Hendrix-y fills, spread triads and country bends. 

Hope the video gives you plenty of ideas to play around with. My tab can be found below and the backing will be in the next post. 

In other news...I'm going to be releasing a new course tomorrow. It's an intermediate level soloing and improvisation course that follows on from my previous course (though you don't need to have seen that one for the new course to make sense). This is a stand-alone course which is separate from the Patreon page and the YouTube channel. But it really is an epic and detailed thing which I hope some of you will want to check out. I'm going to post a little promo video on my channel tomorrow with some more in-depth information about the contents. 

That's it for now. Hope everyone has a great week. Speak soon.

- Adrian 

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How to create soulful and melodic rhythm parts: double stops, spread triads, country bends & more...

Tab and backing track can be found on Patreon (pay what you like): https://www.patreon.com/anyonecanplayguitar My beginner soloing course: https://courses.anyonecanplayguitar.co.uk My latest album: https://zodiactoys.bandcamp.com/releases 00:00 Hi 00:26 Play-through 02:22 About my approach 03:23 Today's chord progression 04:48 Simple arpeggios 08:01 6ths and 3rds 11:52 More double stops 14:26 Spread triads 17:40 Hendrix-ish ideas 19:05 Country bends 21:39 Gear used in this video 22:57 Bye Please subscribe here for many more YouTube lessons: https://www.youtube.com/c/anyonecanplayguitarcouk Check out my website: https://www.anyonecanplayguitar.co.uk Social blah: Instagram (occasionally I post here): https://www.instagram.com/acpgtr/ Twitter: given up on it Facebook: a page exists, I never look at it

Comments

Chris

That sounds beautiful. I’ll have a go at this soon for sure.

David

I'll definitely be checking out the intermediate course! I watched all of your beginner lessons a little ways back and then signed up for your beginner solo course...it's all been SO helpful!

NB

Thanks Adrian - really love the sound and appreciate all the gems in this lesson!

Matt K

Thank you for this Adrian ... I love R&B/Soul rhythm guitar and fills, I think it is a great way to enrich your guitar playing while keeping the groove in mind.

masfield

My fingers are palsied and I can only play slide, on a three string guitar, open g, but no matter, I always get something from your lessons and this one was pretty darn stellar. Thanks a bunch. PS you ought to hear my 3-string version of your Wichita Lineman. It'd probably shrivel your ears into raisins but I've had a blast trying to figure it out.

Charles Cluck

OK ! I've been waiting for the Intermediate course to drop - I'll check in tomorrow. I don't recall you ever mentioning strings in your brief gear notes at the end of these videos - you bend like crazy sometimes, and I wonder if you use slinky strings or have super finger strength. I sometimes just give up and put a little slide in place of your tabbed bends, to accommodate my tired hands.

Iain G

Beautiful, Adrian! Just gets better and better!

Benoît Quévat

Thanks Adrian, very nice lesson. Am I the only one struggling a bit with the rhythm on the spread triads section? That's a good thing, there's plenty of things to work on in this piece and the fact that the speed is not very high makes it manageable (we'll see ^^).

Stobes

C mixolydian works over this, so the key is F, am I right?

Peter Stone

I thought the same thing, key is F. Excellent video all the same.

anyonecanplayguitar

Yes, same chords as key of F but personally I wouldn't refer to it as the key of F since C feels very much like home, and is the tonal centre of the progression. Just doesn't feel like F major at all to me. I'd think either C mixolydian (though you can't really say key of C mixolydian) or key of C major with a couple of non-diatonic chords. Ultimately when it comes to harmonic analysis there are different opinions and preferences, so really up to you. Glad you liked the video!

anyonecanplayguitar

Haha a 3 string Wichita Lineman sounds good. Great to hear you're finding my lessons helpful. Great you're able to adapt and apply my lessons to your technique and abilities.

anyonecanplayguitar

Thanks Charles. I just use Ernie Ball Slinky's. So medium light gauge. Seems to work for me unless the bends are ridiculously big. If you struggle with 10s, 9s are a lot easier for behind and still sound great. You could even try an 8 on top.

anyonecanplayguitar

Thanks Benoit. Yes, the rhythm there is a bit tricky - some ties and syncopation. Just count it out carefully until it clicks. And you can always change the rhythm if you like too.

masfield

One of your lead bits toward the end totally flummoxed my fingers, so I substituted some spaghetti western riffs and now call the song, The Good, the Bad and the Wichita Lineman. Works for me! Thanks again for all that you do.

Vinz

Unrelated, but didn't you mention developing a post-punk soloing course a year or two ago? What happened to that? Can we expect it sometime in the future?

anyonecanplayguitar

Yes indeed. That course is completed but it's been on the back burner since I wanted to put the solos course out first. Hopefully the PP course will be out later in the year. It's a fun course all song-based - 10 bands, 5 songs for each band.

Chris White

Yep, helps me to know this too. C is the five of F, fifth mode is Myxolydian. Helps too when picking a cross harp harmonica.

anyonecanplayguitar

Yes, that's right Chris. I did try to learn a bit of blues harp a while back (I was terrible!) and the whole concept of cross harp was crucial if you wanted that bluesy mixolydian sound.

albergo

Yes it’s the same chords as F. But if you use the C as the root it sounds very different than playing with F as the root. I thinks its best to think of it as it C myxolydian.

albergo

This is a great lesson. Copying it exactly would take me a lot of time of focusing my practice time only on this. That’s a good thing to do if one can devote the time. But a great thing about this lesson is that we can focus on just one litte part of what Adrian is doing, and pick up short parts that help so much to make our playing more interesting. Some of these things are quite easy to play and sound really great to move beyond stumming chords. This piece has lots of ways to switch between chords and scales, again, a lot of them easy to learn. So thanks for this one, it really is very useful.

Justin Walsh

That first chord change, from C to Gm, is my all-time favourite. It’s so deep and colourful. To my ear, I to vm is not as rich in other keys. (I understand why other listeners are saying that the vm serves to shift the key to F, but I think that’s allowing the maths to override the music. C is home.)

anyonecanplayguitar

Yes, that works for me, but I totally understand where people are coming from thinking this is in F. There are always different perspectives when it comes to analysing chord progressions.

Douglas Lochowski-Haney

I completed the first course a while back, and it was really great for me. Looking forward to working through the second course! It'll be next in line once I work through the stuff I'm working through now.

Jordan Zimmerman

Thanks again for another amazing lesson! I come with a lesson suggestion and a bit of a mystery. Lately I’ve been listening to William Bell. His track “I Forgot to be Your Lover” is an absolute masterclass in R&B/ Soul rhythm guitar. The track has a Cornell Dupree feel to it; which is who I assumed recorded it. The back of the LP “Wow… William Bell” lists a few different rhythm sections. Muscle Shoals Sound, The Bar-Kays, and Booker T Jones. Terry Manning is listed as a “Featured Lead Guitar”, but only for certain songs. I knew the song was co-written by Booker T Jones; but it doesn’t necessarily mean he played recorded the guitar work. Of course we all know Booker T for his organ skills (perhaps the best to play the instrument). But did he play guitar as well? To my ears, the song contains guitar, drums and a string arrangement. It does not have organ. A quick google search revealed that he in fact is known as a guitar player! Something I did not know! Maybe Booker T laid down the guitar work for this R&B staple. And if so, he deserves another look by the guitar “inteligenica” because dudes got chops! If anyone has any info I’d love your input! Cheers!

Francis

Thanks for this beautiful lesson!

Jason Menard

Great lesson! I've been trying to understand the thirds played over the Bb. Looking at third diagrams it looks like it would go from the Bb root: Bb & D, then C & Eb, then D & F. Adrian plays it differently by playing C & E (not Eb). What am I missing here? Would love to understand this so I can have confidence with thirds.

anyonecanplayguitar

Thanks Jason! Yes, thirds can be a bit confusing. In this piece I'm primarily thinking about the overall key centre. So rather than playing thirds from the Bb major scale I'm thinking about the key (C major) and the Bb chord is the flat VII chord. Since there's this flat VII chord involved you can think C major scale with a flat 7 degree, which is C mixolydian, same notes as F major. Sorry if this is all a bit overly theoretical! Ultimately you can use your ears to tell you what works and what sounds good.

Antonis Spyropoulos

This is a challenging lesson for me - some things seem simple, until I try playing them - and some, like the spread triads, are completely new territory. I am very grateful for these lessons, challenging but so enriching for my playing in the long run... I am also glad I can follow these lessons, and I try not to give up when it gets difficult... Hope you are well, Adrian! Take care!