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Hi Guys,
Today, we will look at some of John McLaughlin’s rhythmic guitar concepts.
Here’s how John makes interesting rhythmic riffs by employing a bar of 7 to a bar of 8:
This could also be counted as: 15/16 to 16/16 [in groups of 3 to groups of 4 in the next bar]:
OR: Groups of 4 with the last being a 3 grouping [or one note missing in a 4/4 bar]
The chords I have employed are from Shakti’s composition “Face to Face”.
In order to turn this around I employ a simple piece of descending bass scale:
2 Bar Sequence:
VARIATION
Here is a variation with the bass scale played in the treble and the first chord being a quartal voicing for Em:
STRUMMING RIFF 2:
In this next example we employ 2 simple chords of A Major and D Major: The key is in the open strings that are played in between these chords at a fast tempo.
The key to executing this=”Down Up” alternate strumming all the way:
STRUMMING RIFF 3:
Lastly, we will finish with another of John’s alternate strumming favourites which employs the open strings concept once again: [“Down Up”] etc- all the way.
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