Expanded Rhythm Exercise (Guitar Lesson)

Chapter 1: (00:32) Welcome Back Welcome back to the Basic Guitar Series with Mark Lincoln! Get your guitar tuned and ready to go! Chapter 2: (03:39) Review and Warm-Up Before moving on with the lesson, please be sure to practice and review the following:

- Warm-up the hands.
- Stretch the wrists.
- Play the major and minor open chords.
- Warm up your strums by relaxing the wrists and letting the pick flow over the strings.
- Practice the “slanting A” technique.
- Practice the type 1 minor barre chords.
- Practice the type 2 minor barre chords.
- Play all of the type 1 mini-barre chords.
- Play all of the type 2 mini-barre chords.
- Review and practice quantitative and qualitative techniques.
- Review last week’s exercise.

I’m hoping that you all have noticed that I’ve made some small changes to the review section. Regardless of the changes that I make periodically, I’m hoping that you will make your own changes and work on the areas that you struggle with rather than areas that you have mastered. I think it’s important to practice everything, but some people may unwittingly avoid areas that they find too painful simply because they feel that “it’s too hard” or “I can’t do it.” Every musician comes to impasses and plateaus in their playing, and the only way to get past them is to work hard and practice diligently. There are some techniques that I’m still working on and trying to master even after playing for over twenty years. I just continue to work on them and they eventually come to me. Enough pep talk. Let’s jam!

Please open last week’s lesson and review the progression that we worked on. Consider the Em to B5 to G/B to be the first part of the exercise, and today’s content the second part. Use the same strum patterns as last week or and . Are you ready? Let’s do it! Chapter 3: (02:15) New Exercise The next three chords in the progression look like this:

C Major 7
E_0_
B_0_
G_0_
D_2_
A_3_
E_x_

Play this chord by placing your first finger on the D-string at the second fret, and your second or middle finger on the A-string, third fret. Strum all of the strings except for the low E-string and allow them to ring out. Don’t forget to relax your wrist and let the pick flow over the strings in a relaxed fashion.

Chapter 4: (08:05) Finishing the Exercise C(b5) / Cmaj7(#11)
E_0_
B_0_
G_0_
D_4_
A_3_
E_x_

Play this chord by keeping your middle finger on the A-string, third fret. Then, place your third finger on the D-string, fourth fret. Please note that this chord is only called C(b5) when only the A and D strings are strummed. If the chord is strummed from the A string down the chord is called a Cmaj7(#11). It is important to remember that adding or subtracting notes changes the name of the chord.

C5 / Cmaj7
E_0_
B_0_
G_0_
D_5_
A_3_
E_x__

Finally, play this chord in the same fashion as above but remove your ring finger from the fourth fret and replace it with your pinky on the fifth fret of the D-string. Similar to the chord above, adding the open string notes on the G, B, and E strings changes the name of the chord. For instance, if Mark plays only the fretted strings, the chord is called a C5. If he strums from the A string down, it is called a Cmaj7(no 3rd).

Just as in last week's exercise, use the first part of the strum on the C then the second part on the Cmaj7(#11), the first again on the Cmaj7, and the second part on the Cmaj7(#11) again.

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