Hi there, I've got a cool rock and roll shuffle groove that I wanna show
you and I think you're gonna have a blast with. Let me show you what it looks
like first. I'm Tomas from Real Guitar Success. I know this looks a little
difficult when you're first getting started but I am gonna break it down
step by step so let's go ahead and get started. First of all, make your basic
bar chord. We're gonna make the bar chord across the 3rd fret with my first
finger and I'm gonna make a form with my 2nd and 3rd that will call a 7th form.
All together this makes a G7 bar chord, Now even if you're not really confident
with bar chord yet we're gonna make this one a little bit easier because
we're not gonna press down the whole time. Watch what I mean. As you make the
bar chord put your fingers in the right place. The third finger is on the
fifth fret of the fifth string and my second finger is on the fourth fret
that's a third string. Now don't press all the way down so it's just gonna
sound like this right now. As you play the chord, you're just gonna press long
enough to make a sound and then release. Now you'll noticed I also struck just the
lower string so I wasn't worried about hitting these higher strings. Listen
again. That's just the lower strings like pressed out my left hand at the same
time with my right. This alone would be a great bar chord exercise so let's
practice that and we're gonna add to it a groove we'll call this a shuffle
rhythm groove. So a regular groove would be dot dot dot dot but the shuttle
groove has a set of threes in motion like this -
da da da or one two three one two three one two three one two three. Let's go
ahead and try that together and don't worry about pressing down here we're
just gonna use the basic mute sound. Ready go, one two three one two three
or you could say trip trip let trip let trip so that's the
basic groove and that's a good groove to kind of have under your belt. It takes
some practice to really feel it but for now we'll count it out. Now what we're
gonna do is press down on the left hand just long enough for that first down
part so it's da and then release. Again this is a great bar chord exercise and
I'm not hitting the higher strings just the lower two or three it doesn't really
matter how many just aim even if you only hit one. Okay next step we're
gonna add to that. I'm gonna do two hits on the full bar chord one so it's one
two three one two three but on the second hit I'm gonna move my
left hand. Watch for a minute. I'm gonna flatten out my third finger and press it
across the seventh fret. Now I'm pressing across the four third and second strings
and again don't worry about pressing too hard right now. I'm gonna try and get a
little sound but don't worry about getting your perfect sound. You'll notice
my first knuckle is buckled in and my second knuckle is sticking up in the air
not using my second finger and the first finger is all the way across the third
fret so it's going to look like this now. You're gonna start here with that G
seventh bar chord and then buckle down and make a C bar chord that's actually
called a fifth root C bar chord. Fifth root because the name is on the fifth
string that's a C note on the fifth string. So back to the G7
and you strike once when you buckle down so let's try that together it's gonna
look like this. Try it with me now, ready go. Try it again
ready go. Going on to the next step. Now with the upstroke you hit some of the
strings. Don't worry about hitting in them all but at least some and leave all
these fingers off only pressing down with your first finger on the 3rd fret
so watch so far. Down down buckle and then up and then make your G7 chord
again and you add one more triplets strum to the end so it's down down
buckle, up stroke and then down, down, down that's one groove. Again down, down, buckle down
and finish it off with that da da da. Now let's try that together nice and
slow go even slower than that so we can just try it. This is a walk through. Don't
expect to get it anywhere close to perfect just like a walk through to get
a feel of how it's gonna be then you're gonna practice it. Here we go one two
I'll come forward three four. Here we go one - that was one groove. Let's do it
again ready go - da, da, down, up, one more time ready go - da, da, down, up. Da, da, da. One more time. Ready, go - da, da, da.
Okay, now again don't worry about getting this perfect but work on it a little bit
each day and it will get better and better. I want to give you some
inspiration. I want to show you a little bit how we use this. By the way, it's used
in both blues and rock. Slower in blues like this and rock
usually. So let me show you a basic groove.
Okay it's time for you to get to work