Rhythm Guitar: 16th-Note Funk and Soca Grooves

[jbroadclearing]

You are really awesome dude, I'm grateful for your videos.

[gamergeek3000]

Excellent videos, it's nice to find a really good teacher on youtube. You do a great job. Thanks for all your work.

[Renwickrobin]

Your Soca isn't to bad, I am guitar player from the Caribbean,

[javier20893]

i'm a drummer but i really enjoyed your lesson, well explained and fun ! keep it up =] i love funk !

[sinfuldavy0]

Excellent instruction. excellent teacher

[headkase00]

lol

[lartti83]

only a week and i'll get my new dean guitars evo noir. it's been almost 10 years since i got a guitar of my own. these lessons will be very useful. thank you very much!

[Obsession225]

Uh....nice, but I was hoping the lesson would be about the nice funky strumming at the begining :) But I`ll give it a shot....the zoom and the good quality helps.

[twinguitarproduction]

Another excellent video. I love how all your lessons are well varied.

Question: What thickness of pick do you use? Since this focuses heavily on the right hand, the pick becomes more important, right? Any tips on what picks to use?

[creativeguitarstudio]

Reply to; twinguitarproduction,

Thank you for the kind words!

For the most part, all of you guys are really deciding what videos I do each week. So, thank you very much for all of the great questions submitted to my website! Just wish I had the time to do videos for them all.

As far as picks, I've used the same ones now for over a decade. They are the "Jim Dunlop 472R-H3 Tortex Jazz Pick."

I don't know the thickness, (but they are quite a heavy gauge).

[stevieVantanna]

can you give a demonstration of that triplet fill you do?

[creativeguitarstudio]

Reply to stevieVantanna,

Those are (very fast) thirty-second note fills thrown in there around the sixteenth note groove.

They take awhile to master, but if you spend time with a metronome practicing 32nd-note shots they will come along, (likely faster than you'd expect).

One of my instructor's at G.I.T. (Ross Bolton) first showed me those shots. They really highlight the groove nicely.

Thanks for watching,

Andrew W.

[stevieVantanna]

thanks I thought they were triplets, but yeah I hear them now. I actually has Ross's Vhs tape way back - good vid.

[bulkedupnoodle]

how do you play the wonderfull soca groove? - what are the chords - i'd like it if you had a tutorial on this! many thanks for this vid man

[panatha1308]

@bulkedupnoodle Simple major chords. Fmaj - Bflat maj - C maj. Only 3 note chords. F maj playd as the regular 'pop' D maj chord which is the 2nd inversion. The other two chords been played the same with the barre chord 'pop' shape but you pick only the high notes, it' s the 1st inversion of the chords.

[stevieVantanna]

Check out Glamour Boys by Living Color for Soca strumming.

[heminder]

awesome lesson as always.

the super sweet playing in the intro just made this video :)

[Detman101]

Thank you for this lesson sir. I am fine with lead playing but what I needed help with was exactly what this lesson taught. RHYTHM!!! Especially funk and reggae type rhythm with the chucking and muting the strings.

Thank you so much!!

Dm

[sixxers]

Hey great video, andrew. I have a question though. Do you have any tips or advice on how I can get better at solo'ing or improvising? I can play my C scale all the way up and down the neck but I'm honestly pretty terrible when I try to play a solo. Any tips on that?

[creativeguitarstudio]

Reply to sixxers,

I have Videos on Improvisation & Lead Guitar Techniques that would probably help you out. Also, take a moment to view the videos I've done so far on Modes.

By spending time studying; phrasing, other players solo's, and the layout of your fingerboard - you will slowly get better at playing lead. However, (that said) be patient with yourself as it does take a long time to solo well.

Thanks for watching,

Andrew W.

[gamergeek3000]

@sixxers try to imitate vocalists.

[Einfrein]

Wow at the beginning... Talent O_O

[Ravez43567]

No. Practice

[Einfrein]

Yes, but you can't be a REALLY good player even if you practise alot. You still need talent.

A no-talented guitarist that practise alot may be better than a talented guitarist that doesn't practise. But if a talented guitarist does practise, the non-talented guitarist doesn't necessarily have to be better.

[cynicaldemon]

Yeah. Most people can learn to play.

Things we can't decide is things like having natural rythm, flexible fingers/hands, and pure natural talent for hearing what's good and not.

Play 10 years and you can play a difficult song.

But that doesn't mean you could've written it.

[Einfrein]

I've played piano for 8 years, and violin for over 5 years I think, and guitar in 3 years...

I don't think I have natural rhythm flexible fingers/hands and what you said, but I've practised instruments for so many years that even though I don't have it naturally I still can do it pretty good.

Also I solve Rubik's Cube, which helps fingers even more ;) And the other way around.

I don't think I have talent for hearing notes (like many others), but I have practised it pretty good (like many others

[Einfrein]

I also write arrangements (listen to other songs and write it down), so yeah... Without talent you can practise too.

But my point from the beginning was that ONLY practising VERY hard PROBABLY won't be enough for a talented person that practises hard.

[SeanSchecter]

Damn true but harsh XD nice

[ivo1212]

good lesson ;D