Guitar Game: Improvise With Your Name

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Use Names for Guitar ImprovisationBored with playing the same predictable rhythms when you’re improvising? Break it up using the rhythms in names.
Say these names aloud and feel the rhythmic pulses in them, especially where the stressed syllables are:

Jimi Hendrix
Nirvana
Elliot Easton
John Lee Hooker
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Grateful Dead
Queens Of The Stone Age
Florence And The Machine
Red Hot Chili Peppers

The stressed syllable is the downbeat. Now try this:

  • Pick 1 and play a scale using the rhythm of that name.
  • Pick 2 and play a scale mixing the rhythms of those names.
  • Freak Out.
Bryan Wade Guitar Signature - Queens Guitar Lessons in Long Island City and Clinton Hill Brooklyn NYC
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Guitar Game: Improvise With Your Name
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Guitar Game: Improvise With Your Name
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Use the rhythms in names for improvising. Liven up your guitar licks with the names Jimi Hendrix, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Queens Of The Stone Age & more.
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