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Tag: rhythm

  • 4 Ways To Learn New Songs On Guitar

    Many of us spend years practicing guitar. We learn how to play all sorts of things like scale, chords, arpeggios, and whatnot. Ultimately the goal is always the same: we want to play songs! When you break it down you’ll find that there are 4 different ways to learn new songs. They are as follows…

  • “Mr. Conductor” by Big Bill Broonzy

    Difficulty: Intermediate “Mr. Conductor”  is classic fingerstyle acoustic blues. Big Bill Broonzy uses a lot of open strings to provide a bass line to accompany his bouncy rhythm parts. It should be a fun challenge for all you aspiring blues guitarists.

  • “Refugee” by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

    Riff Rundown Difficulty: Easy “Refugee” was released in January 1980 as the second single from the Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers album Damn the Torpedoes. Main Riff The main riff consists of a rhythm guitar and lead guitar. The rhythm guitar riff is instantly recognizable to many.  The lead guitar is overall pretty easy, except for…

  • Working Class Hero by John Lennon

    Difficulty: Easy This song has been recently done by Green Day, but here’s the John Lennon version. There are two guitars, where one actually is the melody line. The up and down arrows indicate strumming patterns. Pay close attention to the bass notes, which will be on the Low E string and the A string.

  • The Basic Blues Shuffle Rhythm

    Let’s take a shuffle rhythm in 12/8 time but, instead of playing full chords, we are going to use two note power chords. One note will be the root note of the chord we are on in the progression and the other note will be varied or shuffled between the 5 and 6 notes of the chord to give us…

  • What Is Strumming?

    Strumming, for a guitarist, generally is used specifically to refer to when a guitarist loosely plays a series of basic guitar chords with the same rhythmic set of up and down strokes. One common mistake among beginner guitarists is to use guitar strumming patterns in place of proper rhythmic control or to try to regulate any guitar into a strumming…