Modern R&B Grooves
Genre and Style Guitar Course from Tim Stewart
Tim Stewart, known best for his work with Rihanna and Lady Gaga, shares with you his love for soulful clean rhythm guitar playing. Sounds that can be found in Rhythm and Blues, Soul, Pop, Rock, New Wave, Funk, Gospel, Hip Hop and many other genres.
30 Lessons
Complete course with step-by-step lessons and practice examples.
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Course filmed with 6 cameras for the perfect angles.
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Full Course Breakdown
Learn the tools to create interesting parts that will add life to your playing. This includes chordal moves, single note lines, swells, double stops and much more. The emphasis for this course will be on fluidity and the groove. How the music feels and what we as guitar players can add to the mix.
Begin the CourseSeries Introduction
Tim Stewart describes his course and who it is for.
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Major Triad Inversions
Triads, or three note chords, are a foundational part of music, and especially rhythm guitar. Let's explore some major triad shapes.
9:56 Runtime
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Minor Triad Inversions
With the major triad inversions in the bag, it's now time to add some minor triads to our toolkit.
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Combining the Major and Minor Triads
Things get really intense when we start using these major and minor triads together!
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Embellishing the Major 7 and 9
Let's explore some techniques we can use to enhance a groove that uses major 7 and 9 chords.
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Embellishing the Minor 7 and 9
Now it's time to explore some minor 7 and 9 chord embellishments just like we did the major ones.
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Combining the Major 7 and Minor 7
Tim shows you some rhythm magic drawing from what we've learned about major and minor 7 embellishments.
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Dominant 7 and 9
Tim shows you how to riff out in some dominant 7 and 9 shapes, and add that to your toolkit.
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Tri Tones in a Dominant Chord
Tri tones have a unique sound full of tension. Tim shows us how they can be useful for finding your groove inside of a dominant chord.
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Licks and Riffs Over the Dominant 7
Tim takes us in to a further exploration of the dominant 7 with more riffs and some great licks.
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The 6th Interval
Tim takes us through some ideas using the 6th interval.
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The 10th Interval
What kind of leverage can you get out of the 10th interval? In this lesson, Tim is going to help us explore just that.
12:44 Runtime
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Muted Single Notes
Using muted notes is another great tool that can add another layer of texture. Let's explore the possibilities.
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Double Stop 3rds and 4ths
Playing two notes at once is sometimes just enough to spice up a guitar part. Let's look at double stops in the 3rd and 4th intervals.
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2 Note Pentatonic
Tim shows us some licks playing the pentatonic scale in two note harmony.
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Combining 4ths and 3rds
Tim brings some of what we've learned about 4ths and 3rds and doublestops in to a new groove to further develop these skills.
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Chord Movements
Playing chords is about more than strumming. Check out how we can create movement inside of the chords for more rhythmic flavor.
11:53 Runtime
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6/8
Incorporate much of what we’ve covered into a Motown 6/8 groove.
25:04 Runtime
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Minneapolis
Funk techniques from that city up North.
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Riff Based Rock/Funk
In this lesson you'll learn how to integrate rock & funk style riffs into your playing.
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Voicings
We're going to explore some of Tim's favorite chord voicings.
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Highlighting the Common Note
Tim shows you how to move chords around a common note using a progression that places the common note on top.
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Cali Groove - Rhythm
Tim brings us along as he develops a rhythm for this California style groove.
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Cali Groove - Embellishments
Next we add some embellishments to our California groove.
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MJ Groove - Rhythm
Tim shows us some rhythmic ideas inspired by the King of Pop.
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MJ Groove - Embellishments
Tim shows us some embellishments for the rhythm part we just learned.
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Old School Groove - Rhythm
Tim gives us some rhythmic ideas for an old school style of backing track.
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Old School Groove - Embellishments
Now we are going to add embellishments to that last track.
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Isley Groove - Rhythm
Tim has one more groove to check out. Let's develop a rhythm part for this track now.
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Isley Groove - Embellishments
Let's spice this last track up now with some embellishments.
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