Guitar Lesson 31: Double stops, intervallic playing, chord embellishments and making it pretty

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https://tunein-toneup.com/ In guitar lesson 31, Dan reminds me about some of the approaches you can use when embellishing chords, including the use of double stops and different intervallic sounds. You will hear Hendrixisms, discussion on how to connect major scales, chords and intervals in your thinking and some interesting approaches to help make your rhythm playing more interesting. Finally we look at the different flavours created by a variety of intervals. We hope you enjoy this lesson and use it as a springboard to improve your own rhythm playing. 1:25 Our introduction and initial questions 1:58 Story about music course at Canterbury University with Big Jim Sullivan 3:04 Dan raises the issue of how there is a slight disconnect between lead and rhythm playing 4:40 Can you see how the two -chords and melody - link together? 5:34 Double stops are somewhere in between chords and melody 7:41 Look at chords in a key and write out the chords and notes 9:10 The chords and notes in any key go in a cycle 9:34 Relative minor and see the chords as part of a minor key 11:21 I pick a chord progression - Am Dm F and C 14:30 Build notes into chords as embellishments 15:11 Am chord embellishments 17:03 Dm chord embellishments at 10th fret 19:00 Dm chord embellishments at 5th fret 20:30 F major chord embellishments at 8th fret 22:06 C major chord embellishments 24:40 Analysing the added notes used in embellishments 28:11 Hendrix type playing - who's used this embellishment style 30:17 Discussion of old amps including the MAJOR 200W 32:35 Little Wing as a prime example of this emellishment style 34:04 Hendrix - Little Wing 35:07 E shape Hendrix type embellishments 36:00 Hendrix - Hey Joe 36:24 Double stop ideas in open chords which becomes Chris Rea's Road to Hell 37:54 Chris Rea - Road to Hell 40:00 rolling the fingers of the picking hand 42:06 Guthrie Trapp - Commodity 43:00 Demonstration of open chords with chord extensions 45:00 Using the notes of the chord to end your melodic runs 46:33 Me using this idea and creating a melody over some of Dan's rhythm playing 47:41 Double stops being used in thirds like in Brown Eyed Girl 48:40 Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl 50:00 Learn the scales not just as single notes but as intervals and double stops 51:25 Harmonising using 6ths 52:09 Integrating what we have learnt so far and using more than one tactic 52:52 Harmonising parts of a melodic solo as 5ths and utilising octaves to recreate phrases 56:23 Different styles and using this type of technique 56:39 Using 5ths to create a heavy rock or metal sound 58:23 flicking off to open strings for a split second to create a jagged rock sound 60:00 7ths for a jazzy or dominant 7ths for a bluesy feel