How To Mix Rhythm With Lead Playing, Sound Great, And Make Music…
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Jam Track In GThis is the jam track I was playing over.
The TAB For This LessonThe TAB for this lesson
I’m having fun, thank u so much!
TOTALLY REMEBR THIS. STORMY MONDAY SLIDE AND THE LICK BETWEEN VERSES.
WHEN I WAS A RTHYUM GUITRA PLAYER. I WOULD THROW IN A LIL LICK BETWEEN VOCAL CHANEGS. ALWAYS WOULD MIMICK THE SOUD VOCALS.
I really enjoy your instruction and you communicate to us like we were newbie stage musicians, great stuff. Keep up the good work and Thank You for Sharing…
ONE THING, THAT I LEARNED PLAYING RTHYUM GUITAR IS YOU LET THE LEAD GUITAR DO THE FILL INS. WHEN I PLYAED WITH JUST ABASSPLAYER AND MY ACOUSTIC, I DID TROWW IN AFEW FILLS ALWAYS MIMICED THE TUNE.
EVEN ALL MY SONGS THAT I HAVE WROTE, COMPOSED, I WOULD MIMIC THE TUNE. WISH I HAD TYOUR EMAIL, I WOULD SEND YOU ONE OF MY PRODICTIONS.
IF ANY OF YOU BLUES GUYS WANT TO SEE WHERE ROCK STARTED, WATCH ERIC CLAPTON 12 BARS. IT’S ON SHOW TIME. BACK IN THE 60’S, BOB DYLAN, CLAPTON AND MANY BANDS PLAYED BLUES. . LED ZEPLIN EVEN PLAYED SOME ROEBERT JHONSON TUNES.
Everyone knows where rock started and the sycodelic scene started.
When the British went to America and heard the blues and hell the British did not no what a les Paul was till Keith Richard brought one back to the uk then everyone got one.
then the drugs came along and
especially LSD and off they went and fast endless licks where born that go on and on and on.then us Brits milked every blues song they could get there hands on and each band did there own versions hence why there is lots of ways to play every song.but not many people can play the origanal versions it is quite simple when they were off there nuts on cocain or LSD they distorted the amps and rocked then on the come down played blues just like today most of the music stars take drugs but the drugs must be rubbish because the music is its all the same it’s all beats and rap and metal what is all that about pure rubbish
I’m learning more from you than I learn from my weekly guitar lessons!
Thanks I’ve just had an operation on my left(fingering) hand,so I can’t try anything for a while. When I can your videos will be greatly appreciated.thanks again in anticipation. Jim.
Inspiring!
Very nice to play. It sounds very good !
Many thanks Griff – you’re a natural teacher on video, and excellent tab too
I have been looking for something like your method in video. This is a good way to lean. I have had accustic and elecric gutar for 20 years and have always wanted to play but never focused and i want to now.
Thanks,
Glenn
Very well done, thank you
Hi Griff, thank you so much for these videos, I’m getting into playing again after a serious finger injury about 15 years ago, and I pretty much have to start from scratch! I really do appreciate what you’re doing, it inspires me to keep re-learning!
Griff, another great lesson. Your guitar looks really cool.
Thanks. Been practicing scales for a long time. Nice to finally have something to do with them!
I haven’t played my guitar this much in a long time .thanks for the fuel to start the fire again.
I was hoping you were going to break down those little riffs..esp the last one, like you did in the first video
Thanks griff my playing and understand as improved since I’ve started BGU 2 many thanks
Thanks so much see You next time .
One of your best lessons, Griff
Very informative lesson. Thanks
Thanks Griff…these are really great and helpful for us who want to learn to fill in the holes between cord changes. I know it’s easy but you help us “see” what needs to be seen.
Thanks and keep these lessons coming. Blessings, Gerry
This exercise enables you to learn new licks while having fun and putting them to use. Very cool.
I have been struggling with this exact concept for a while now. You demonstrated something, simplicity
not speed in making the response
sound good. thank you Griff.
That’s what’s up, Yo!
Love it. These mini lessons provide so much info.
Thanks again for the inspiration.
Thanks for the great lesson Griff I’m going to have some fun with this one
Thank you Griff for the mix Blues Rhythm and Lead Playing. I’ll have to work on it. thank you.
Im liking this first time here. please dont stop.
Griff,
Not specifically related to this video but involved in all of them is a very basic question I’ve long wanted to ask: What the heck do I need to do to get my pinkie finger more involved? Other than with chords, I almost never use it as it seems very weak and uncoordinated compared to my other three fretting fingers. Is this an issue that you find a lot of less-accomplished players have? I feel that I’m really being held back by not using all the equipment!
James
In some sense, this appears to be a relatively simplistic lesson, not unlike “Playing on the Porch”. But it encompasses so much of basic blues concepts that must become 2nd nature, I think it something that should be added to the daily practice routine, at least for “newbies”. And when your looking for new ideas, pick up your guitar, follow Griff’s framework from this lesson and try something new within the framework. New, key, new rhythm, different “Box”, etc.
Thank you Griff.
It’s weak because you don’t use it. You need it for everything, chords, scales, leads, you are choosing not to use it
There is only one fact that you are correct in it is week because you don’t use it. But saying you need it for everything to play is rubbish.the only time you use full chords is if you play by your self.when playing with a band or jam track 2 fingers is enough.hell even 1 finger chords in standard tuning if you know your fret board as for licks if you can’t do it just using 4 notes that’s just 2 fingers needed by the way then you won’t be able to do more complex licks where you use your pinky not only that where do you hear complex licks in real authentic blues oh you don’t. simple sounds best in blues
Hi James, some people almost never use their pinky and get around it with stretching their other fingers but they tend to have longer fingers. Some use their pinky a lot and most people use whatever is needed for each riff or lick. I’d definitely give it some extra work to do so if needed you can use it, but don’t panic if it doesn’t work out
fantastic teaching Griff; keep it up! thanks very much
Nice phrasing there Griff !l like listening to yo with your band backing , or a track.
Hey Griff,
This is a cool lesson and understand how the Singing Riffs work. Like James Henning, I am also a past pro-drummer back in the 60’s now converting to Guitar. Wish I could sing as good as you but trying and see how the melody works.
Great.
Michael-Sydney-Australia.
I’m picking up some great stuff. Thanks!
Great Lesson=Great FUN !Thank’ s again, for another good one.
Very good and sample
We all learn differently I’m sure and I have appreciated all your lessons but this one was exceptionally beneficial. This lesson helped me tune into my own sense of rhythm and feel much more confident with simple improvisation on lead riffs. Thanks much
Excellent! This ties it all together in my head!
Your instruction is always KISS.
Thanx 4 that
Thanks Griff. This is the right time to send this out with BGU Live 2018 coming up.
You continue to improve both my playing and my understanding of the blues and I know that goes for hundreds and thousands of players just like me. Thanks, bro.
IS IT OK TO START A LICK AHEAD OF THE BAND?
Great video and this is one of things that I put on my “goals” list for this year.
Been “playing around” with the guitar since I was 16. I have learned more from you in the last 2-3 years than I have since I began. I’m now 74! Thanks Griff. You’re a natural teacher.
In my opinion this is one of the best blues lessons ever given and it’s for free. I’ve never seen this anywhere else even in paid courses. You can get caught up in so much detail of major/minor, 1,4,5 scales speed turnarounds etc Whether you play electric, an acoustic, in a band or your bedroom, this is the simple way you play the blues.
Simply awesome Grif
Many thanks
Nice, nice, explanation Griff, thanks. Had been trying to figure out how Clapton did this very technique with the great Robert Johnson song, Crossroads, the version on the 1968 Cream LP, Wheels of Fire. You explained it, 1-2-3, bodda-bing! just like you knew all along what it was I wanted to learn how to do. Fellow students, this is the official sample of that song: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001NCSE8O/ref=dm_ws_tlw_trk10
Listen to that sample after watchiing this lesson. Griff serves it up for us on a silver tray. Well done, Griff!
For some odd reason it won’t play
Outstanding; gives me something to work on before I take my lesson today
This might be the best video you’ve ever done Griff!
Hey Griff, Great to see this again as a refresher..
Michael-Sydney-Australia 16 Sept 2018.
Hey Griff, I already watched this sometime ago but now as I am more advanced intermediate level and now playing in a Band as Lead with Rhythm I am always looking for Fills in songs by playing arpeggios etc. But this lesson using Box 1 in G is really good. A lot of our songs are in G, D, C, E. I am taking singing lessons to help me expand my pitch and I will be playing Lead/Rhythm & singing a lot of songs when I am ready with the singing. All good and a great refresher just in time.