Rhythm Guitar - Essential Techniques

About this workshop

This is a 6 week course (one hour per week) aimed at intermediate guitarists who want to get more from chords and rhythmical patterns. This workshop will highlight the rhythm guitar techniques used by Keith Richards, Chrissie Hynde, Joe Strummer, NIle Rogers and Billy Joe Armstrong who all use chords and chord inversions to create musical rhythmic interest. You'll learn various damping techniques as well as how to find your own chord inversions using chord harmony. You don't need to know any theory for this course but you will be learning a one octave major scale and all about intervals too, so feel free to get that under your belt before the course if you want a head start.

The venue is Colman Redland Centre, Croydon Rd. Reigate - free parking on site as usual.

This course is primarily an electric guitar workshop so you will need your own electric guitar and a small amplifier ideally. Guitar amplification is not provided on this workshop but can be supplied by prior agreement for a small fee.

You can register for this course right away by filling in a short form on the registration page. alternatively call Vin Leone on 079 1234 2773 if you are not sure which course is best for you.

The skills that you will learn include:

Chord harmony

Rhythm guitar becomes a whole lot more fun when you understand how chords work. This first week we'll go over the fundamentals of chord construction and play around with some familiar chords.

Chord inversions

This is where the chord fun begins, by the end of this session you'll be making your own chord inversions and strumming some new rhythm patterns.

damping techniques

Its all very well making sounds but complex rhythmns need a lot more control than constant sound. You'll find out all about essential right and left hand damping techniques and discover how to use them to spice up your rhythm strumming.

Rhythm strumming patterns

by learning the rhythm patterns that have become famous, you'll start to see how chord inversions and damping play such an integtral part.

dynamics and chord emphasis

2 more essential techniques for creating professional sounding rhythm guitar parts.

famous rhythm parts

During this course we study and play some of the most famous rhythm guitar parts of all time.

About your teacher

Vin Leone - A seasoned professional guitarist who has spent the last 40 years studying, performing and teaching guitarists of all levels.

Week 1 - harmony & right hand controls

We start off with some strumming technique controls and a good helping of chord harmony understanding which you will use throughout the course to discover chord inversions and more interesting rhythm parts.

Week 2 - chord inversions and nile rogers

We will use some common chord inversions along with some right and left hand damping controls to produce the kind of funky guitar sounds Nile Rogers made standard for rhythm guitarists everywhere.

Week 3 - chord damping and rhythm divisions

We will look at the differences between full bar chords strumming and more controlled use of inversions. You'll also discover how single string rhythms are so powerful and learn to control your own legato and staccato rhythm playing.

Week 4 - Rhythmic blues

We put together some of the right hand controls to play some blues shuffles with dyads (double stops) and introduce some dynamic texture to your playing,

Week 5 - joe and keith

Over the final 2 weeks we'll learn a couple of famous rhythn parts that use the essential techniques you have learned in weeks 1 through 4.

Week 6 - joe and keith to finish

More consolidation of what you've learned but the focus this week is on performance and review.

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