5 Level of Blues Rhythm (Beginner to Pro)

if you're stuck using those same old basic CS for blues then this video will transform the way you play we're going to look at five levels of Blue's Rhythm and turn you into a master adding movement and Harmony bills and [Music] trills so let's start with level one the chop so you probably know this one already it's just a classic pattern where we take our a chord here for example but play it as a power chord with fingers one and two on the fifth fret of the low E and seventh fret of the a string and get a shuffle kind of rhythm going like that and then what we can do is come up two Frets on this a string with our little finger which adds a sixth to the chord now what we want to do is come on and off of this note on every other strong beat so on Beats two and four like this one and two and three and four and then what we can do is go up one more fret on that a string it's a bit of a stretch up to the 10th but this brings in a seventh of the chord and then we can alternate between going to the ninth and going up to the 10th and we get this it's probably the most classic Blues Rhythm pattern and this is great because it's low down when you're kind of sitting in behind someone else playing a solo and you want your guitar to be back in the mix this is a really great thing to play then of course when we go up to the four chord in this case it would be a d we can either just come up here or we can move up to the A and D strings together play exactly the same thing and then up two more Frets and that's the five chord of e a little Pro tip if you want to expand this further is that you can shift from this position so that the first finger comes to replace the second finger of the seventh fret of the a string which then frees up the second and third fingers to play the minor third at the eighth and major third at the ninth on the low E giving that kind of a sound and you can add that in something like [Music] this so putting that in context with the track is going to sound like [Music] this so this is great if you want to sit right back but what if you want your Rhythm playing to stand out a bit more then you need level two the classic 14 pattern for this one think of an A7 chord like this you know just a normal e-shaped bar chord with the little finger removed but we only want the notes on the D G and B strings so what we're going to do is make a little bar with our first finger at the fifth fret just on those three strings and then hammer on at the sixth fret only on the G string with our second finger now this little hammer on creates a minor to Major movement which is really important for blues so that's the one part of our pattern because all those notes come from our one chord of A7 but then for the four part we're going to come up to the seventh fret and bar those same three strings with our third finger which gives us a d Triad which is like the four chord of A7 so we've got one up to the four and then what we can do is alternate between those two and create little patterns like [Music] this then when the progression moves from a up to D we can do exactly the same thing but in the D chord [Music] position same again in the E core position and a pro tip to take this one a step further when you do your hammer on you can create a Trill by coming on and off it quite [Music] rapidly getting that kind of a sound so here we go again with the [Music] track [Music] [Music] so far this is all pretty basic in terms of Harmony but what if we want some more sophisticated science well for level three let's look at some sliding trads that will deliver the goods so the cord shape we'll be using looks like this it's really the same pattern as you normally see down here for a D7 but we're starting here at the seventh fret on the D string so we've got seven on the D six on the G and seven on the B and just think about how these notes fit around our a chord so with the a bar chord we've already got seven on the D and six on the G and then we're adding on that seven on the B so these three notes together really spell out an F minor Triad which when played over an a chord gives an A6 type sound so that's the basic chord but then we can shift that all down two Frets which gives an E Minor triad which when played over an a chord gives an A9 type sound so we're really getting into some quite complex extended Harmony and superimposed chords type ideas here but it's actually really simple to play so then what we can do is slide between these two chords and create sounds like [Music] this pretty cool yeah the other thing we can do is come down chromatically so I'm just moving that whole chord shape down one fret at a time and really we don't really need to analyze what this is in the middle it's just a chromatic passing chord but really creates a cool sound then just like before when we come up to the D chord we can do exactly the same around that chord same on the E then a pro tip for this one we can add the little finger on the high E string as well which adds another extension another little bit of sophistication and Sparkle on top and This Ss really nice for a chromatic kind of ending like that so now see how I blend these tries with the 14 pattern we learned earlier and things really start to step up a [Music] [Music] gear [Music] now even when you're in Rhythm mode there'll be times that you need to slip in a fill here and there so for level four let's look at some double stops now double stops or to put it more simply playing two notes at once is a great way to add fills when you playing Rhythm because they bring in Melody but carry more weight than if we switch to single notes the double stops be looking at here a six which give us this type of [Music] sound now this is relatively straightforward to do so think about our a bar chord and the notes we want from this are the G string and high e so let's bring those out six on the G five on the high e now strum those together just making sure the B string in the middle is being muted by the finger that plays the G string so those are our chord tones from the a chord but then what we get is three other pairs of six that we can use so come up to the seventh fret both fingers on the seventh fret on the G and high e so strum those together and then again up to the eighth and then again up to the ninth so we've got these three pairs where both fingers are at the same fret so it's quite simple to remember and then our chord tones down here where they're offset by one fret so a really simple thing to do is just work up them like that and then back down again I find when you're coming down it works well to [Music] just slide into that top one like that then it barely needs saying at this point but once we get up to the D we can do exactly the same again to take our chord tones and then three pairs above same on the [Music] E and get great little fills on any chord once again with the track I'll use the one4 pattern as my base and then add in some fills using these [Music] six [Music] [Music] so now we've built up quite a bit of vocabulary from sitting back on the lower strings to UPF front fills at the top so for level five let's combine it all together and see how it's a bit like playing a lead solo but with rhythm [Music] [Music] so then what's beyond level five well you need to watch this video to find out

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Length: 9min 20sec (560 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 09 2023