Flatpicking Guitar Magazine - Flatpicking Essentials Volume 1: Rhythm, Bass Runs, and Fill Licks

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Written and Compiled by Flatpicking Guitar Magazine Editor Dan Miller

This instructional method teaches you how to play interesting and exciting rhythm guitar accompaniment by showing you how to fill the rhythm guitarist roles of: Keeping Good Time, Outlining the Chord, Leading the Listener's Ear to the Chord Change, and adding Texture, Excitement, Drive, and Interest. The goal of this 96-page instructional book and accompanying CD is to make you a better rhythm player, and to also prepare you to begin playing lead guitar in Volume 2 (Learning How to Solo: Carter Style Leads and Beyond).

What you will learn in the first Volume of the Flatpicking Essentials Series (Rhythm, Bass Runs, and Fill Licks):

1) The Role of the Rhythm Player: Keeping Time, Outlining the Chord, Leading the Listener's Ear to the Chord Change, adding Texture and Interest
2) Bass Line construction based on major scales, the chromatic scale, and arpeggios
3) Bass Line construction using a variety of timing variations (half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes, dotted-quarter notes)
4) Bass Line construction using walk-ups, walk-downs, and leading tones
5) The Rest Stroke
6) Alternate Pick Direction and Eighth Note Runs and Fill Licks
7) Over 20 G-Run Variations
8) Syncopation
9) Over 10 Alternate Strumming Patterns
10) How to Work with a Metronome