 Hello everyone and welcome to Blackstab Potential. My name is Lee Fuge and I'm here with MGRmusic.com and in this lesson today we're going to round up the end of our three part video series on rhythm playing. In this lesson we're going to break down five classic riffs and rhythms with all the tricks and techniques you guys learned from part one and part two. So if you haven't already checked out part one on the building blocks of rhythm or part two on the techniques of rhythm please go check those videos out first and then come back to this video where we're going to turn those tips we learned into some classic riffs. The sound you're hearing in this video is coming from the Blackstab debut 15. I've got that amp mic'ed up with a Lewitt audio condenser mic and the guitar I'm using is my Schergold Provocateur. So the first rhythm we're going to learn is the classic song Knocking on Heaven's Door. We're going to base this on the original Bob Dylan version. This uses just four chords so the chords we're going to be using are G, D, A minor and C. So think back now to that first rhythm lesson where we talked about different rhythmic divisions. We're going to be doing eighth notes for this with a sixteenth note thrown in and alternate strumming from the second lesson. So the rhythm is one and two and a. So we play this as down, down, down on the one and two and on the and a we're doing it down and up. We're also doing the same rhythm across the three and the four so it's three and four and a. So in the first bar across the one and two beats we're playing the G chord and across the three and four we're playing the D and then on the follow-up bar for the entirety of the bar we're playing the A minor chord so we're doing that little rhythmic pattern twice. On the second loop round of the entire rhythm we substitute that A minor for a C chord so it goes like this. So if you put that all together we've got G, D, A minor, G, D, C. So here is the entire progression. The second classic rhythm we're going to look at is from the A, C, D, C song back in black this uses just three chords. We've got an E major, a D and an A. So in this rhythm we're going to be using some 16th notes ahead of the beat and some rests. So we're starting off this riff by playing the E chord on the one beat. Now you don't want to let that ring you just want to hit it on the one and cut it nice and short. On the and a three so that's a 16th note we're going to play the D chord so we're going to go down up down so it's one two and a three and the next thing we're doing is the A chord on the and a of the fourth beat and the one of the next bar. That takes us into the second bar then so we've got one and a three and a one. So we've got these little rests between you could let the chord ring but then it wouldn't sound exactly like the track. On the studio recording there's some little lead licks in there but we won't worry about those just yet. Let's just focus on getting that rhythm nice and tight. So one and a three and a one. So those muted notes there were just to show the beats in the second bar because all you're doing in that second bar is playing the A on the one and then resting until the following one where you're back on the E. So the next one we're going to do is the kinks track you really got me. We're using just two chords for this we're using an F and a G. Now I played those as power chords there but you could play them as bar chords if you want to it's much easier to start with power chords so if you're new to playing try the power chord version first and then graduate onto the bar chord version later on. So this rhythm is straight eighth notes but we're starting on the and of four so the initial count in one two three four we're coming in on the and and one and two and there's a rest there until the next and four. So all I'm doing here is going back and forth between that F and G on the end of four I'm playing this F chord here so one two three four on the one end I'm playing the G on the two I'm playing the F and on the end of two I'm playing the G again. The fourth classic rhythm we're going to do is should I stay or should I go by the clash this uses just two chords we've got a D chord and a G chord. We're also bringing in this little open string hit between certain chord changes where I'm just hitting the E, B and G strings as open strings just to help with some transitions. So this riff starts on the and of one so we're not playing on the one we're playing on the end with two hits of the D so it's and two then on the and of the two we're hitting that open string so one on the three and four I'm playing the G chord then on the and of four I'm playing that open again before going back to the D on the next one one doing the second bar I'm just playing a muted hit on the two three and four so for this all you can do is rest your fretting hand across the strings and go that's two three four the third bar is the same as the first bar so we're playing that same rhythm again and then the final bar on the third beat this is a little bit of a lead technique here but I'm doing a quick hammer on from the five to the eight of the E string so here's this riff all together one two three four one and for the fifth and final one we're going to get a little bit riffy now this is one that you guys requested on the live stream I did ahead of creating this video and this is the range against the machine track killing in the name a few of you guys requested this one so here is this rhythm broken down two now before you start this one you're going to have to put your guitar in drop D tuning that means you D tune the low E string a full tone so it's a D so your guitar now is tuned D A D G B E this is very important because we're playing some lower notes that we can't access in standard tuning so because this is a riff we're going to be playing a lot more single notes here we're also going to be doing some percussive fretting hand mutes similar to the ones we just did in the clash riff so again if you haven't checked out the second part of this series we talk about that technique please check that out and then come back and learn this riff so if we break this down rhythmically in the first bar we've got the open low D on the one that lasts for an eighth note duration and on the ender I'm playing the third and fifth of the A string I'm playing that as a hammer on as well in the second beat I'm doing straight 16th notes so on the two E I'm doing two fret hand mutes so I'm resting my finger across the strings and percussively hitting them with my strumming hand and on the end I'm doing a hammer on from the three to the four on the D string so if you put those two beats together it's going to sound like this the third beat is just going to be straight eighth notes so on the third beat I'm playing the fifth fret of the A string and on the end of the third beat I'm playing the top three strings so the D A and D all open in drop detuning three notes on top of each other is now a power chord and then across the fourth beat we've got some more power chords so on the fourth beat I'm playing across the second fret here on the D A and D strings so that's now a power chord so I'm playing that on the fourth beat and then I'm hitting the third fret power chord with my middle finger on the E so four E and back to the two I'm actually I'm doing that first power chord transition as a hammer on as well if you can't do the hammer on don't worry just pick all three power chords so here's how that sounds as a hammer on if you can't quite get that hammer on just pick all three so there's a lot to take in with this riff so here is a slow play through break this down with the rhythm in the written section of this and look at the tabs that pop up on screen to really help work out what rhythmic divisions we're doing across each beat and here's that riff once more at full speed so you go guys there are five classic riffs and classic rhythms using all the techniques you learn in parts one and two of this little rhythm series so go away now and learn those five riffs and see how you get on see how far your rhythm playing has come in just a short space of time thank you guys so much for watching I hope you've enjoyed this lesson if you did please let us know down below in the comments what you thought and how you've gotten on with all this new rhythm information and also if there are any lesson topics you'd like to see us cover on the Black Star channel please leave them down below in the comments don't forget to go check out the Black Star YouTube channel for more free videos like this there's a bunch of lessons and a bunch of sound like videos and there's plenty more on the way as well and if you're looking for guitar teacher in your local area please head over to mgrmusic.com and check out the huge network of teachers all over the country thank you guys so much for watching I'll see you soon