Elective material

 

•  Melody

Playing melodies in different syles, tone, bends, legato playing, slides, slurs.....

 

• Layering

How many voices do you play?

My experiences (listen to audio (workflow))

Brent Mason - Recording guitar

Complementary grooves with multiple guitars

Combinations of guitars in layers, what to use?

My experience in examples

 

• Rhythm guitar

Carl Verheyen SWAT rhythm (every week 1 subject)

Strumming in different styles

Tim Pierce - 'Rhythm skills, guitardoodles

Fingerpicking in different styles (Nelson Faria)

Famous rhythm guitar hooks in hits, Carwash/Steely Dan/Fame/Nile Rodgers/

Paul Jackson - 'Art of the rhythm guitar' every week 1 chapter

Building a groove - Steve Lukather

Famous Rhythm guitar players: Steve Cropper/Jackson/Ray parker Junior/Freddy Green/Cornell Dupree

Guitafrica app

Homework: make your own rhythm track by connecting different rhythm motives and connect them with slurs

 

• Voicings

Mick Goodrick

close and open voicings and their usage (Eric Johnson)

- Be creative with chordsymbols:

Lines derived from chordsymbols, guidetones, guidetone sets, commontones, intervals

 

• Open tunings 

Joni Mitchell book

 

• Open strings and licks 

What I found out.

 

• Style knowledge

Funk

Motown

Rock

Country

Jazz

African styles ('guitafrica')

 

• Guitars

Brands and there use in styles

 

• Studio skills

Reading music

Be creative with chordsymbols

 

• Working with vo-cals (-calists)

Playing colla voce, recording live in the lesson with a singer

Fills, where, what and how

 

• Sounds

Amp sounds /cabinets

Effects

Kemper

 

• Extra

Capo

Slide

Ebow

Whammy bar use

Bends, slides, slurs (Larry Carlton on bends)

 

• Listening to student tracks every week

• Finding your way through chordsymbols

What do you play in Bigband, Funk, Rock, Latin with just chordsymbols

 

• Guitar parts

What to write in studio situations

My experience

Destillating lines/ideas from a Band leadsheet

 

• Recording

Studio setup at home / Logic / interface?

Workflow

Mikes

Kemper

What do you want to hear when you record (clicktrack, important instruments for the recording)

 

• Daily Drills

Ted Greene counterpoint ideas

Playing cadences and improvise with it

 

• Leon's Doodles

Analysis

 

---

 

Lesson 1

• Daily exercise: chord inversions (leon), cadences, Ted Greene counterpoint ideas
• Carl Verheyen topic of the week (video 1-4, the Pocket)
• Playing with metronome, right hand strumming in Funk, left hand muting (I want you back)

Homework: play rhythm track on 'I want you back'.

 

Lesson 2

• Daily exercise: cadences, counterpoint, rhythm tracks, etc.
• Carl Verheyen topics of the week (videos 5 shuffle types,6 less is more,7 Pop progression intro)
• Layering analysis: Brent Mason (introduction to 'Rain')
• Something with fingers, Travis picking (Tommy Emmanuel)
• Analysis of (layered) guitar parts: Clean up woman-Betty Wright
• Show me stuff you did, recordings on rhythm tracks, compositions

Homework: record Swat Rhythm 9 Hendrix Mayfield performance or Brent mason's Rain guit.1 on the backing/jam track

 

Lesson 3

• Daily exercise: cadences, counterpoint, rhythm tracks, etc.
• Carl Verheyen topics of the week (videos 12 Modern chord voicing intro)
• Layering analysis: Brent Mason (introduction to 'Rain')
• Something with fingers, Travis picking (Tommy Emmanuel)
• Analysis of (layered) guitar parts: Galicia, score
• Show me stuff you did, recordings on rhythm tracks, compositions

Homework: record Swat Rhythm 12 Modern chord voicings performance or Brent mason's Rain guit.2 on the backing/jam track

 

Lesson 4

• Daily exercise: cadences, counterpoint, rhythm tracks, etc.
• Carl Verheyen topics of the week (videos 12 Modern chord voicing intro)
• Layering analysis: Brent Mason (introduction to 'Rain')
• Something with fingers, Samba! 
• Analysis of (layered) guitar parts: Y no se Queda, pdf
  
• Show me stuff you did, recordings on rhythm tracks, compositions

Homework: record 'got to get you into my life' pdf, audio, try to find extra layers!

 

Lesson 5 

• Daily exercise: Ted Greene counterpoint ideas
• Carl Verheyen topics of the week (videos 12 Modern chord voicing intro)
• Layering analysis: Brent Mason (introduction to 'Rain')
• Something with fingers, Samba! 
• Analysis of (layered) guitar parts: Abba guitarparts
  
• Show me stuff you did, recordings on rhythm tracks, compositions

Homework: Record the Paul jackson guitar part (taking chords apart), pdf, on this audio