Merry Christmas to you and your family. Thanks for another great lesson. This lesson was a lot of fun! Great lesson for working on your timing, with some of those licks. And thanks for taking the time around the holidays to get this lesson out,. Merry Christmas and Happy New Years to you and your family! Very Cool Lesson Brian. Thanks for all the great lessons. Happy New Year. Hey Brian, This is another great lesson. Thanks for this lesson!

As always you make learning guitar great fun! Another awesome lesson ,you keep crankin em out. Dig that boogie rhythm. Sign Up. Recent Lessons. Facebook Twitter YouTube. Really admire the rhythm playing on them and the effort that goes into coming up with great rhythm ideas. Thanks Brian, great lesson. Is there any chance that you could give a mini lesson on the blues riff in A sharp? Or at least a tip on the patterns? Another fun, inspiring lesson that keeps me loving my guitar!

Brian, you truly bring a huge amount of happiness to your students — so glad I found Active Melody! Cheers, Cary. New wrinkles on an old theme perhaps. Once again, you awake the latent excitement that I have always had for music; with your great teaching, I can enjoy learning a good piece and improvising off it.

Thanks so much! Many thanks Brian! The part after the walking base minute 16 with different rhythm, I did not understand. Too quick. Have You explained this in more detail elsewhere? I love these great upbeat solo songs , This is a great addition to my song list. Brian, I am curious why the long bass run climbs up the hill to the E note and then descends down a different set of similar, but different, notes.

Is there any logic or theory behind that? I would have guessed that it would retrace the path up. Thanks for another great lesson. Can you lead me to any of your like videos? I retired 3 years ago and found your site and bought in 2 years ago. Well worth the investment. Thanks Brian. Watched Brian play this for the first time and instantly become an Active Melody Member and devotee!

Thank you Brian — your explanations are clear and thorough and the Slow Walkthrough and the OnScreen Tab are priceless! Is there any program that i can use to adjust the file to around and save it at that speed.

When you listen to music your ear considers notes falling on beat 1 as very important. Beat 3 is a strong place for landing chord tones, too. Every bassist knows this line. More importantly, this bassline contains all of the qualities of a perfect bassline. It sets the pulse. And, it successfully supports the sound of each chord in the tune. You should learn to play the boogie-woogie bassline over blues variation 1 first.

The Boogie-Woogie exercise. The two-bar boogie-woogie pattern neatly fits it since it contains two or four bars of each chord. It is important that you understand the concepts of chord extensions and rootless voicings.

Check out the related lessons above for more information. Rootless voicings allow you to move easily and smoothly between your right-hand chords whilst also incorporating interesting chord colours and textures. Next, experiment with moving your right-hand voicings up and down chromatically. Slipping the voicing up and down a half step will add additional tension, resolution, and interest to your right-hand comping patterns.

In boogie-woogie, many of the cliche licks and riffs are also based on chromatic movement, so this concept is an important one to understand. Start by moving voicings chromatically, and later in the course we will explore chromatic riff concepts and ideas. Learn the turnarounds demonstrated in this lesson.