Stolen Dance Guitar Lesson - The Double Bass Acoustic Guitar Series

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Channel: Jon Michael Swift · 2016 · Music

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An arrangement the reduces the guitar and percussion parts into a single part that uses wrist thumping and pluck and chuck techniques together. First lesson which progressively introduces the layers of the basic groove.

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https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/The_Speedway_League_School/The_Songwriter%27s_Grooves_Project_-_A_Guide_to_Singing_and_Playing_Guitar/The_Double_Bass_Technique_Song_Series/Stolen_Dance

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0:05 Moving the key to A minor
0:30 What's in this lesson

Chord progressions

0:52 Verse chords progressions
1:51 Chorus chord progressiones

Picking hand patterns 3:12

3:20 staccato chords
4:14 adding a pluck and chuck groove
5:12 Playthrough of the combined pattern
5:30 Wrist thump tips
6:17 Thumb/Wrist combo stroke
7:09 Combining thumb pluck and slap
7:28 Add chords to the percussive layers
8:12 Other genres you can use this pattern in
8:23 Applying the pattern over the chords
9:31 Playthrough of verse changes
10:20 Note about F chord voicings
11:06 Playthrough over chorus changes
12:10 What's coming up in the next lesson

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