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Rhythm Guitar Lessons

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Welcome to the rhythm guitar lessons hub. From here, you can access free lessons that will take you through the essential techniques and skills involved in playing rhythm guitar.

Rhythm guitar generally covers essential playing techniques such as strumming, flat picking, finger picking and chord phrasing.

Basically, anything that sits under and backs up the lead instruments (if there are any).

So, work through the rhythm guitar lessons below from top to bottom and make sure you equip yourself with the playing tools you need to create your own music with an open mind.

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Featured Rhythm Guitar Lesson

Great series with multiple camera angles exploring some essential funk rhythm technique. Great fun to play and not too difficult...

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Learn Rhythm Guitar Step by Step

► Basic Chord Changing Exercises  Before you learn complex strumming or picking patterns, you need to be able to negotiate chord changes. Once these "marker points" are firmly in place, you can then work your own rhythms around them. This lesson includes 6 exercises with backing tracks to help sharpen your chord change timing.

See also: Barre Chord Changing Exercises

► Guitar Strumming Lessons  In this series, you'll learn essential strumming techniques. Starting with the basics (if you need), moving onto more complex strumming patterns and chord change rhythms, use this course to lay the foundations for your own experimentation. Features video, backing tracks and clear diagrams. Also in this series...

• Beginner Strumming Patterns
• Essential Strumming Technique
• More Advanced Strumming Patterns
• Chord Change Strum Timing

► Guitar Chord Picking Technique  Covers chord arpeggiation and exercises to help you improve your picking accuracy and timing. Learn the essential "rules" of alternate picking, string skipping and other common flatpicking styles. Also in this series...

• String Skipping & Layered Patterns

► Finger Picking  Video series taking you through the basics of fingerstyle playing. Learn how to play multiple parts at once to create that distinctive orchestral sound. Master left and right hand co-ordination and the importance of thumb independence to play a variety of rhythms.

► Metal Strumming & Rhythm  Series devoted to essential metal rhythm guitar techniques. We start with some basic downstrum rhythms (with downloadable drum tracks!) commonly used in heavy metal before moving on to more complex down-up speed patterns. Also in this series...

• Alternate Strumming Patterns

► Chord Phrasing  Learn more about how to use chords more effectively by applying various note "phrases" around the basic chord shapes with your free fingers. Part 2 expands on this idea by playing 2 and 3 string phrases around a chord structure. Experimenting with this technique will help you discover new ways to spice up your rhythm playing. Also in this series...

• Floating Chord Phrases

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