Let's work on a Blues Rock Rhythm Guitar Lesson

all right my friends welcome back to the channel if you're a follower of mine you notice that between this video and the last video there was a weak gap and i try not to do that but i had to take the week off because i was starting to record a new blues ep that will be released under my name but it's really special because i'm taking a lot of my favorite tunes reworking them and then putting them out in a sort of a modern fashion with me playing of course and singing but the really cool part of this is that everything i get from this project is going to go towards a blues charity to help those musicians that need help with medical bills and that sort of thing it's a way to kind of give back to the music i love and i've been teaching for so long it's going to be really fun but i took a week off to do some guitar tracks and one of the problems was my sg junior is in the shop getting refretted so i called up the folks at gibson and of all people the uh the one and only mark agnesi loaned me his personal 57 murphy lab heavy heavy relic heavy aged uh single cut junior and it is really really cool we're going to play a blues rock progression here with this um but i used it on the record a bit to really kind of bring me into that single dog ear pick up blues world that i love i love that junior but it's just getting refretted and i needed something to kind of fill its spot mark was generous enough to loan me this and i got to give it back to him tomorrow so um you know can't say enough about nashville and guitar town and having a community so generous to be willing to help out a guy like like me uh just a few days before i get into the studio but we're going to play a progression that will allow you to play a blues rock tune or shuffle feel by yourself it's going to sound great with this i got my 73 marshall there it is 73 marshall all cranked up going through the aux box we'll talk about the progression i'll teach it to you of course the track will be available and the tab and then i'll talk about this murphy lab uh 57 single cut junior i know tom murphy pretty well too and i guess i could have reached out to him but tom's a wonderful dude and a genius artist so it's cool to have this guitar in my possession for a few more days it's going back to mark tomorrow but in any case enough of me talking about this it's been a crazy week we're going to jump into a really cool progression that will also be an upcoming course could i be doing any more if you were me you'd say yeah all right let's check out this progression let's hear this guitar i'll even play some solos on it too but we'll really focus on the progression and then we'll talk about it we'll talk about the guitar let's do it [Music] hey [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] um [Music] all right so that's a really fun progression and probably a side of my playing you haven't seen that much but it's definitely one that i wanted to show you when you get a rock and roll guitar like this it kind of just brings it out of you now i'm just doing using the murphy lab junior through my 73 marshall and i'm attenuating it with the aux box and i'm going into my my daw which is universal audio's luna and i'm getting the reverb from the aux application [Music] really great plate reverb but it works well because it's post your amp so that means that you're you're hearing the reverb after your amp as opposed to a pedal going in the front of it but let's teach um the progression and i want to talk to you about a lot of fun things that you can do in your rhythm playing i'm going to back the volume down on this it's great because it'll clean up [Music] really well this is i love single dog ear pickups this is a great great sound so i start just with an e uh e5 power cord here now this power chord what i'll do is i'll kind of mute that sixth string and i'll go one and two and we're playing a cool rock shuffle here [Music] so if you play that e5 power chord and then you release your pinky you get an e a b and a d which gives you the notes of an e7 but we don't put that third on the top because major thirds when you're playing rock tend to kind of that kind of brightens it softens it a little too much we want this to be a little more aggressive sounding when you're playing that rhythm one and two and three and four and one and two and three and when i palm you'd i take my my fleshy part of my hand right here i'll put it down on that camera there and i do it right where the string meets the saddle this kind of playing is you know we're not playing metal metal but you know when it comes to that we want it to be tight and sort of consistent sounding it's a great place to waste great way to practice right there [Music] one and two and three and one and two and three so you're getting that sort of power chord seventh chord and what you have to do is you have to kind of be careful here you could play but what i like to do is just play the a and the d but toggle off my sixth string now what that's going to give me is a really wonderful sound in blue's rhythm playing which gives you this sus4 type of sound so if you think about that little three note shape being like your seventh chord shape you know you've seen it here you've seen it in a nine that's root third flat seven if i bring that third up to the fourth it's an a and a d and you get that sort of suspended seven seven sus4 sound it's a cool thing on its own [Music] and this guitar sounds good very ac dc right it's a song right there you can take it so now when you put those together three four one [Music] and you'll see i like to put a little bit of that vibrato on those notes now when we go to the iv chord just grab an a5 which is gonna be open fifth uh string and then second fret fourth string now we go to some of my favorite blue shuffle stuff right but we're using a more rocked up fashion we're gonna approach the flat seven and the third of a a half step away then we'll play another one of my favorite little three note seventh chords here we've done all this in other lessons but we're rocking it up where we have an a a c sharp and a g [Music] back to the top turn the volume down great that takes us through our one chord and our iv chord um now when we go to the five chord what i'm going to do is just grab an f sharp and a b so this is almost like an inverted power chord if you will which is just f sharp b because it's here think about that bar chord and then think about just taking those two notes there so you have your fifth and your root on the top now and what i did was a fun little riff with the sort of sixth sound [Music] and what i do there is [Applause] is i'll play a d sharp and a b now some would consider this the inverted third because your root is here the third of b is d sharp so some would call it that or you go one two three four five six six notes away from that d-sharp is a sixth okay [Music] and you get that from skipping a string going from the fifth string uh to the third string so fifth string third string no fourth slide into that d sharp then what you can do is let those notes ring out because that could be a really cool sort of rhythmic thing [Music] and we go to our next one we're gonna we're gonna kind of invert that we're gonna go d sharp not really invert it we're gonna take different chord tones d sharp and f sharp but those are all notes that work in a b chord and i've taught lessons on sixths of this variety before on the channel so be sure to try to find those [Music] but i grab it here now you can do it a couple different ways try to let them ring [Music] or you can do kind of a fun thing mix it up [Applause] do the same thing a whole step down to a then back to the one okay so that whole thing if we're going from the top [Applause] you can grab the e there [Applause] so when i do the a c sharp a e and c sharp all chord tones really from a triad even now i grab my b7 sharp 9 as my 5 chord there i can put a little wiggle on it if if i desire with some vibrato but when i was writing this i was like what can i make a real aggressive tough sounding v chord we do that uh and it sounds great with this sort of really cool you know big caveman blue shuffle you know and then we give it the gas with the with the junior sounds great [Applause] [Applause] single and you see i just did that by myself and as long as the groove is steady which i'll make it more this time like two three four play that chord that rip so [Applause] [Music] so i know you always want to play something by yourself that sounds fun when you're just in the guitar center trying something out so you could take any one of those [Music] and at the end of the solo i started throwing a bunch of different inversions in and that sort of thing which all was just tailor-made for this guitar so let's talk a little bit about this guitar and the rig a little bit more and of course don't forget to click the links below not only for the guitar and some other things that i like to play through in these lessons but tab and track for sure all right let's talk about the guitar a little bit more so i'm having some fun trying to take the latter portions of these videos to make them a little bit of a gear segment and of course with the chapter function on youtube now you can choose to watch this or not but i hope you do stick around and of course just hang with me while we talk shop a little bit because a lot of folks have asked me about that so this is just the 57 murphy lab now this is the uh heavy aged or heavy relic or whatever you want to call it um it's got the killer big old chunky sea neck which i'm a fan of i love that i have this theory about neck shapes and a lot of guitar makers make really ultra thin neck shapes or thinner neck shapes now if you do this with your hand and you feel right here there's some tension there and as you squeeze that even more the tension becomes uh comes tighter and more obvious but if you took like oh i don't know like a softball or a baseball type sorry a baseball type size and you did that there's no pressure at all here so realistically i'm thinking oh a fatter neck is actually more comfortable to play because once you pull your hand away look at you have more space in there as opposed to if the neck was that way so i'm much more of a fan of a thicker chunkier neck as i think it's more comfortable and i always felt that way to me it just was like squeeze your hand not squeeze your hand and you can start to feel which one becomes more comfortable but i think guitar manufacturers are kind of like well we don't want to scare anybody away with a chunky neck but in the future once they start playing bar chords or things it can get tricky and that's part of the reason i'm convinced try to convince me otherwise anyway chunky c uh it's got that more nylon nut and i'll tell you i did some stuff in drop d for the record that was um required some re-tuning occasionally but this whole video i haven't tuned at all and we know sometimes with gibson's in the past that hasn't as always the case right really sounds good as far as from a tuning perspective perspective it's got great checking great wear and the bridge the bridge dog ear p90 just sounds really really great apparently it's a one-piece mahogany body super rolled fret edges and it's just a lot of fun that's all i can say but the cool thing is it's versatile so i can do the the keith [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] so imagine a tele pickup that's a little fatter and closer to the middle of the guitar and another thing i hear lots of people talk about like phil x charlie star people like that when there's no other pickup up here that's also pulling because whether the pickup's on or not if the magnets are still pulling you get a sort of a different sense of string resonance when you only have this one pickup that's why broadcasters are really cool too so what i'm doing is just coming out of the guitar i'm going um i have a pedal board with a tuner an eq and the eq i pull some of the low frequencies out for recording because it gets just gets too woolly and then if um what you're seeing here back on the marshall is i have the channels jump this is a 7300 watt marshall going into the top input and i have volume one at about noon or five and then volume two which is i'm blending at this point only up a little bit around two the bass completely off mid-range up treble up because this guitar needs to cut especially through a band situation [Music] i mean that's rock and roll all day long so i really missed having my junior but super thankful for mark uh loaning me his personal 57 murphy lab guitar here uh really cool a lot of fun if you've got any questions or anything else let me know set up beautifully string gauge probably a little light for me i'd probably go up another uh you know another gauge or gauge and a half or that sort of thing but just really really sick guitar really really cool um a lot of fun and um with the prices of vintage guitars these days you know maybe the murphy lab is is a little bit uh more realistic than you think i mean with geez i saw a 335 the other day for 55 grand so i don't have that kind of scratch lying around but you might be able to get something that really feels like a um like a vintage guitar with one of these again i'm not not endorsing it i just think it's a great guitar and i was just really you know flattered that they loaned it to me that mark loaned it to me so that's it so hope you dug that section hope you dug the lesson that lesson is actually going to be included in the upcoming course uh when it's available i'll put the links in this video too and of course you can hit me up and check my website for that sort of stuff as well and the easiest thing you can do to help out the channel is just subscribe of course there's uh opportunities to to tip and jump join on my mailing list and that sort of thing but just subscribe and that'll keep me uh he'll help me making videos on a weekly basis regardless if i'm taking a week off or not all right i hope that made sense i hope you had fun download the tab in the track subscribe and i'll see you on the next video thanks so much

Channel: Corey Congilio

Views: 56,805

Keywords: blues rock rhythm guitar lesson, blues guitar, beginner blues guitar, beginner guitar lessons, stevie ray vaughan, bb king, eric clapton, joe bonamassa, albert king, albert collins, gary moore, fender, gibson, paul reed smith, PRS, John Mayer

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Length: 19min 8sec (1148 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 16 2021