Guitar Lesson 26: Country rock rhythm & licks inspired by Tom Petty & Mike Campbell

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Website: https://tunein-toneup.com/ Post: https://tunein-toneup.com/2017/12/10/guitar-lesson-country-rock-rhythm-licks-petty-campbell/ You can see my fan post on Tom Petty here: https://tunein-toneup.com/2017/12/10/tom-petty-music-heartbreaker-mike-campbell/ In guitar lesson 26, I ask Dan for his advice about playing in the Country / Rock / Pop genre with the aim of supporting both rhythm playing in the style of Tom Petty and lead playing in the style of his guitarist – Mike Campbell. In this lesson Dan begins by choosing a chord progression with a Tom Petty-like rhythm, then looking at incorporating bass runs, arranging songs for dynamic interest, adding some country bends and soloing using double stops. The lesson ends with us looking at a series of licks and how to incorporate these into our chord progression; a quick study of mixing the major and minor pentatonics and a final challenge to play changes up the fretboard as a useful practice idea. 3:35 Chord progression, with a little chat about tone – Bm A / A G D (Dsus4) 7:53 Incorporating bass lines / connecting runs using bass notes 9:40 Dynamics: e.g. start mellow and build up, changing your chord voicings 13:53 Country bends, including chordal bends and double string bends 18:05 Dan demonstration of ideas so far, with Gary playing rhythm 19:18 The importance of not conceptually separating lead and rhythm playing 25:19 Major and minor 6ths double stops 26:35 Demonstration of double stop soloing over our chord progression, Dan first and then my attempt 34:35 Some soloing ideas for country rock with demonstration of licks 36:59 Lick 1 37:10 Lick 2 37:28 Lick 3 (outlining the D chord) 37:48 Lick 4 37:59 Lick 5 39:20 Mixolydian lick / mixing the major and minor pentatonics 41:34 Demonstration of soloing ideas over our chord progression 42:28 Further ideas on mixing the major and minor pentatonics 44:13 A final challenge to find backing tracks which change from two scales; e.g. minor to major / dorian to aeolian and play up the fretboard with the changes