Baby Taylor Guitar BT1 Review With YourGuitarSage

Everyone .

This is Brian from active melody dot com .

Uh In the last several lessons , we've taken a look at how to play lead guitar , blues , lead guitar in particular .

But , um , over the next several lessons , um , we're gonna be taking a look at how to play interesting rhythm guitar for blues and rock uh on electric guitar as somebody pointed out to me that there's just not that much um , good rhythm guitar material out there online and , and I could verify that after doing a quick search .

So , uh be sure to go to LD dot com to download the jam track uh for this lesson and the table if you need it .

Uh Otherwise let's get started .

Now , before we get started , I'm just gonna play through a little bit of this rhythm by myself without the jam track .

And I want you to watch my right hand and watch the , the strum pattern that I'm , I'm repeating over and over again in particular .

So what I'm doing there is I'm creating a rhythm that looks like this over and over again .

Now I recommend you practice before you even start worrying about the left hand and what's going on with that .

Most people always make that mistake .

You always , people try to always learn what's going on with the left hand .

And , um , that's important , but sometimes it's more important to get the right hand down and in a rhythm like this , the right hand is what's gonna make this thing .

That's what people are gonna stomp their feet to .

Everyone .

This is Brian from active melody dot com .

Uh In the last several lessons , we've taken a look at how to play lead guitar , blues , lead guitar in particular .

But , um , over the next several lessons , um , we're gonna be taking a look at how to play interesting rhythm guitar for blues and rock uh on electric guitar as somebody pointed out to me that there's just not that much um , good rhythm guitar material out there online and , and I could verify that after doing a quick search .

So , uh be sure to go to LD dot com to download the jam track uh for this lesson and the table if you need it .

Uh Otherwise let's get started .

And so the , so that's what I would practice if , if I were you in the beginning is just doing a downs stroke , downs stroke , downs , stroke downs stroke just to get that down .

And it will be slow in the beginning .

But over time you'll be able to pick it up a little bit .

Tell us about this tempo and it , OK , so we'll get back to the right hand .

But now let's take a look at what the left hand is doing .

So , the first thing , uh , to point out is I'm playing an , a chord here , first quarter that I'm playing .

And the way that I do it is I just bar the second fret .

Um , I bar the first four strings and I play the middle four strings when I strum it with my right hand .

So I'm not playing the bottom E and I'm not playing the high , I'm just playing the middle .

That's one way to make an , a , some people make an A by cramming three fingers in that allows you to let the high E string uh ring out , but it's not very versatile for doing these kinds of rhythms .

So I recommend when you're playing rhythm , especially , you know , uh rock and roll or blues , you probably wanna bar your a like that .

So , what I'm doing is uh when I'm barring that I'm playing this little rhythm and by the way , the , the strings that I'm playing , I'm actually not playing all four , I'm just really playing string , which is the A string , the D string and the G string .

So I'm playing this , that's the first thing I do .

And what I'm doing there is I'm , we get to the right hand but with the left hand barring the second fret and I'm coming up to the fourth fret , fourth string , pushing down just that one string , releasing it .

So , and you've heard that rhythm ?