Rhythm Guitar with Brendan Burns

Skill Building Guitar Course from Brendan Burns

Focusing on different forms of picking and playing can steal your chops away from your rhythm playing. Brendan Burns offers up a 6 week coarse on rebuilding your rhythm chops that focuses on training necessary muscle groups and getting back into tempo.

19 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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Focusing on different forms of picking and playing can steal your chops away from your rhythm playing. Brendan Burns offers up a 6 week coarse on rebuilding your rhythm chops that focuses on training necessary muscle groups and getting back into tempo.

1

Rebuilding Rhythm: Week 1

Brendan Burns offers up the first exorcise of a six week program dedicated to rebuilding rhythm technique.

7:54 Runtime

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Rebuilding Rhythm: Week 2

In week two of his six week rhythm building program, Brendan goes over an exercise that covers treble and bass strumming.

6:53 Runtime

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3

Rebuilding Rhythm: Week 3 and 4

Brendan is back with the 3rd and 4th week exercise to workout your rhythm playing.

11:25 Runtime

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4

Rebuilding Rhythm: Week 5

In week five of his six week rhythm workout, Brendan provides an exercise that breaks the guitar up into five distinct sections.

6:48 Runtime

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Rebuilding Rhythm: Week 6

Brendan Burns offers up the final exercise of his six week rhythm workout.

7:12 Runtime

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6

Counting 5/8 Time Signatures

Brendan Burns starts off a short lesson set on how to count compound meters. He starts with the 5/8 time signature.

13:07 Runtime

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7

Counting 7/8 Time Signatures

Now that you've mastered 5/8 time, Brendan provides a lesson on counting 7/8.

6:42 Runtime

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8

Counting 11/8 Time Signatures

Brendan Burns demonstrates how to count 11/8 time.

6:24 Runtime

1.5 Difficulty

9

Playing Compound Meters

Now that you have counting under your belt, it's time to actually play some compound meters.

9:38 Runtime

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10

More Odd Time Signatures

In lesson 10 of his rhythm series, Brendan teaches playing examples of the previous time signatures he has covered.

18:01 Runtime

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11

Bass Lines for Guitarists #1

Brendan discusses how using bass lines can enhance your playing and allow for more creative expression in a band style situation. He starts you off by discussing bass lines created from major and minor triads.

15:20 Runtime

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12

Bass Lines for Guitarists #2

In the second bass lines lesson, Brendan discusses arpeggios and bass lines for all types of 7th chords.

29:58 Runtime

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13

Bass Lines for Guitarists #3

Brendan Burns returns with a more intermediate look at bass lines for guitarists. In this lesson he discusses chord tone and chromatic approaches from above and below the root.

14:25 Runtime

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Bass Lines for Guitarists #4

Brendan returns with another look at bass lines for guitarists. Building on the previous lesson, Brendan discusses chromatic approaches that combine tones above and below the root.

10:29 Runtime

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Bass Lines for Guitarists #5

Brendan returns to his Rhythm Guitar series with another look at bass lines for guitarists. In recent lessons he's covered chromatic approaches from above and below the root as well as a combination of. Brendan will now discuss and demonstrate double chromatic approach.

9:44 Runtime

2.5 Difficulty

16

Understanding Subdivisions #1

Brendan takes us back to basics in this series by helping us understand and internalize rhythmic subdivisions.

14:51 Runtime

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17

Understanding Subdivisions #2

In lesson two of Understanding Subdivisions, Brendan takes a look at 8th note "over the bar line" rhythm patterns.

28:28 Runtime

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18

Understanding Subdivisions #3

Brendan takes us deeper into understanding subdivisions by looking at 16th note subdivisions coupled with fun 8th and 16th note patterns!

21:19 Runtime

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Understanding Subdivisions #4

Brendan wraps up this series with a look at some crazy sixteenth note, over the bar line rhythm patterns.

13:33 Runtime

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  • Nashville, Tenesse
  • Playing since 1988
  • 179 lessons at JamPlay
Brendan has been passionate about music since childhood. He began his studies on trumpet, in elementary school, and then moved to guitar as a teenager. He holds a Bachelor's Degree from Berklee College of Music, and has studied with Norm Zocher, Joe Stump, Bret Willmott, Bob Pilkington, Jay Weik, Tim Miller, & Charlie Banacos.

While at Berklee, Brendan was a member of the Music Mentoring Program, teaching private lessons to gifted high school students. He is currently teaches, and is chair of the guitar department at Brookline Music School. Brendan also teaches guitar for Tune Foolery & privately at his home in Cambridge, MA.

Along with educating, Brendan plays out often as a Solo Guitarist, performing standards, pop, and classical repertoire. He has recorded and played with the chamber-fusion band Ra Quintent, and as well as Vessela Stoyanova's Eastern Stories Under Western Skies Project. Brendan also performs as a leader, director and sideman for various Boston art-rock projects, and is former member of MIT's Gamelan Galak Tika.
Reviews & Feedback 85/100 with 80 ratings
cmaj7_cm9

All three above (could only highlight one).

saboliver

Clear, useful, easy to follow and lends itself to practice.

Ergonomico

Excellent method, great teacher

gschwind

Great exercise. Helped me a lot.

MikeRGR

Great Lesson Thanks

cchittenden

Great personality and simply to follow without getting bored.

paradigmmatrix

I got back into playing and this is what the doctor ordered!

juliesyc

I like this a lot

Geoff65

rhythm is the key to sounding good...so is being on/in time

140924685

Thanks