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Playing Sixteenth Note Rhythms (Part 3)

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This course tackles two new rhythms, both of which consist of a dotted eighth note and a sixteenth note. As with previous combination rhythms, it’s crucial that these new variations are played with the correct application of downstrokes and upstrokes.

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This course is 1 HOUR & 12 MINUTES long and contains the following videos, each of which can be selected from the video player above:

1. Introduction

This video gives an overview of the rhythms that will be covered in this video course. These rhythms will consist of dotted eighth notes and sixteenth notes.

2. Dotted Rhythm #1

This lesson will guide you through some simple exercises based on the dotted eighth note-sixteenth note combination rhythm.

3. Exercise #6

This exercise is a fairly simple bassline that utilises the dotted eighth note-sixteenth note rhythm at the beginning of every bar.

4. Exercise #7

This exercise is in the key of C minor and once again uses the dotted eighth note-sixteenth note rhythm in the context of a bass groove.

5. Dotted Rhythm #2

This lesson will guide you through some simple exercises based on the second dotted eighth note-sixteenth note combination rhythm.

6. Exercise #13

This exercise is a rock bassline built predominantly on the E blues scale. The line uses the second dotted rhythm extensively.

7. Exercise #14

This exercise is a funk bassline that uses the second combination rhythm. There are also some syncopated sixteenth note figures that require two upstrokes in a row.

8. Exercise #15

This exercise is quite simple and makes use of both of the combination rhythms. In the final bar, these rhythms are used in an alternating sequence.

9. Exercise #16

This exercise is a hard rock bassline that makes use of the second dotted rhythm, as well as two of the rhythms from the previous video course.

10. Exercise #17

This exercise is a funk bassline that makes use of the second dotted rhythm. There are also some continuous sixteenth note phrases that include some ghost notes.

11. Exercise #18

This exercise is a busy rock bassline that puts to use many of the different rhythms covered in this course and the previous two.

12. Exercise #19

This exercise is a funk groove based around a Bb7 sound. Watch out for the continuous sixteenth note fill in the eighth bar.

13. Exercise #20

This is a slow groove that uses many of the rhythms featured in the Intermediate course, as well as some difficult string crossing figures.

14. Exercise #21

This exercise is a busy funk line with some upper register figures that utilise the second dotted eighth note/sixteenth note combination rhythm.