- Now for acoustic funk strumming.…So one of the things…that you constantly will hear…with players like Dave Matthews,…Ani DiFranco, Michael Hedges,…is this really heavy 16th note rhythm.…So first of all, let's just try to get…our 16th note strumming happening,…just going to go down up, down up, down up, down up,…down up, down up.…You can sort of accent each down beat for right now,…and just make sure you line this up with your foot.…You're going to basically go one E and a two E and a,…so your foot is still going down and up…on the down beat and the ands,…but you're just playing the E and the a…with an upstroke in between each one, alright?…So let's try this.…
Here we go, just a steady stream of 16th notes.…One, two, three, four.…(guitar strumming)…Now let's work on some left hand muting.…There's a lot of this kind of stuff you'll hear with guitar.…It's often called scratching,…and that's where you just dampen down the strings…with your left hand very lightly…so that it makes this very percussive…kind of sound on the guitar like...…
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1/13/2017- Flatpicking arpeggios
- Tuning with harmonics
- Bending strings and vibrato
- Creating a monster funk groove
- Blurring the line between rhythm and lead
- Mapping the fretboard in boxes
- Getting creative with open strings
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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Welcome33s
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1. New Colors and Textures
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Flatpicking arpeggios2m 19s
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Suspended chords6m 29s
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Add9 chords2m 4s
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Harmonics6m 7s
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Tuning with harmonics1m 42s
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Slides3m
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Bending strings and vibrato7m 16s
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2. New Grooves and Styles
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Acoustic funk strumming4m 40s
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A taste of swing6m 51s
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The grooves of New Orleans2m 54s
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Delta blues4m 53s
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3. Pentatonic Possibilities
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4. Mapping the Fretboard in Boxes
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5. Harmony
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Major triads up the neck6m 27s
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Minor triads up the neck1m 48s
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Triads in reggae1m 3s
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Double stops5m 43s
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6. Introducing Alternate Tunings
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Drop D tuning2m 53s
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Double drop D tuning3m 35s
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Open G tuning4m 44s
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Open D tuning5m 8s
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Conclusion
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Conclusion and credits2m 22s
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