Rhythm Playing

Hi, my name is Les Davidson and over the next few months I’ll be giving you a series of Guitar lessons from the essential basics to the more advanced.

These have been filmed exclusively for you at GuitarX in London. I hope to remove some of the mystery from this thing called music and get you feeling comfortable all over the neck of the Guitar.

This first lesson is using the CAGED system for chords.

The what!!!

Hello again! I hope all you readers have been experimenting and creating new rhythms. In this installment we will be taking a look at 3/4 time as well as triplets, but first I would like to talk a bit about practicing rhythms so lets get stuck in.

Practicing Rhythms

A lot of students including myself in the past tend to just approximate the rhythm they are trying to learn, hoping that they will get it right eventually, but are unsuccessful, and wasting a lot of time, not to mention losing patience.

Almost 4 decades after his death, Jimi Hendrix still has more guitar magazine coverage than almost any other player. Much of this attention has been gained from Jimi being a showman and lead guitarist but his rhythm playing is equally as interesting and innovative. In this lesson ACM’s Jon Bishop explores Jimi’s use of the fretting hand thumb to play bass notes, allowing the little finger to create add 9, add6 and sus 4 chord voicings.