Modern R&B Grooves

Artist Series Guitar Course from Tim Stewart

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Tim Stewart, known best for his work with Rihanna and Lady Gaga, shares with you his love for soulful clean rhythm guitar playing. Sounds that can be found in Rhythm and Blues, Soul, Pop, Rock, New Wave, Funk, Gospel, Hip Hop and many other genres.

30 Lessons

Complete course with step-by-step lessons and practice examples.

Multi-Camera

Course filmed with 6 cameras for the perfect angles.

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Full Course Breakdown

Learn the tools to create interesting parts that will add life to your playing. This includes chordal moves, single note lines, swells, double stops and much more. The emphasis for this course will be on fluidity and the groove. How the music feels and what we as guitar players can add to the mix.

Begin the Course
1

Series Introduction

Tim Stewart describes his course and who it is for.

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2

Major Triad Inversions

Triads, or three note chords, are a foundational part of music, and especially rhythm guitar. Let's explore some major triad shapes.

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3

Minor Triad Inversions

With the major triad inversions in the bag, it's now time to add some minor triads to our toolkit.

7:42 Runtime

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4

Combining the Major and Minor Triads

Things get really intense when we start using these major and minor triads together!

8:06 Runtime

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5

Embellishing the Major 7 and 9

Let's explore some techniques we can use to enhance a groove that uses major 7 and 9 chords.

9:43 Runtime

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6

Embellishing the Minor 7 and 9

Now it's time to explore some minor 7 and 9 chord embellishments just like we did the major ones.

10:17 Runtime

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7

Combining the Major 7 and Minor 7

Tim shows you some rhythm magic drawing from what we've learned about major and minor 7 embellishments.

10:17 Runtime

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8

Dominant 7 and 9

Tim shows you how to riff out in some dominant 7 and 9 shapes, and add that to your toolkit.

11:45 Runtime

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9

Tri Tones in a Dominant Chord

Tri tones have a unique sound full of tension. Tim shows us how they can be useful for finding your groove inside of a dominant chord.

10:28 Runtime

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10

Licks and Riffs Over the Dominant 7

Tim takes us in to a further exploration of the dominant 7 with more riffs and some great licks.

11:44 Runtime

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11

The 6th Interval

Tim takes us through some ideas using the 6th interval.

15:45 Runtime

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12

The 10th Interval

What kind of leverage can you get out of the 10th interval? In this lesson, Tim is going to help us explore just that.

12:44 Runtime

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13

Muted Single Notes

Using muted notes is another great tool that can add another layer of texture. Let's explore the possibilities.

12:33 Runtime

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14

Double Stop 3rds and 4ths

Playing two notes at once is sometimes just enough to spice up a guitar part. Let's look at double stops in the 3rd and 4th intervals.

13:06 Runtime

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15

2 Note Pentatonic

Tim shows us some licks playing the pentatonic scale in two note harmony.

10:46 Runtime

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16

Combining 4ths and 3rds

Tim brings some of what we've learned about 4ths and 3rds and doublestops in to a new groove to further develop these skills.

12:53 Runtime

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17

Chord Movements

Playing chords is about more than strumming. Check out how we can create movement inside of the chords for more rhythmic flavor.

11:53 Runtime

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18

6/8

Incorporate much of what we’ve covered into a Motown 6/8 groove.

25:04 Runtime

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19

Minneapolis

Funk techniques from that city up North.

23:35 Runtime

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20

Riff Based Rock/Funk

In this lesson you'll learn how to integrate rock & funk style riffs into your playing.

13:13 Runtime

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21

Voicings

We're going to explore some of Tim's favorite chord voicings.

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22

Highlighting the Common Note

Tim shows you how to move chords around a common note using a progression that places the common note on top.

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23

Cali Groove - Rhythm

Tim brings us along as he develops a rhythm for this California style groove.

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Cali Groove - Embellishments

Next we add some embellishments to our California groove.

13:17 Runtime

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25

MJ Groove - Rhythm

Tim shows us some rhythmic ideas inspired by the King of Pop.

14:50 Runtime

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26

MJ Groove - Embellishments

Tim shows us some embellishments for the rhythm part we just learned.

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27

Old School Groove - Rhythm

Tim gives us some rhythmic ideas for an old school style of backing track.

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28

Old School Groove - Embellishments

Now we are going to add embellishments to that last track.

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29

Isley Groove - Rhythm

Tim has one more groove to check out. Let's develop a rhythm part for this track now.

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30

Isley Groove - Embellishments

Let's spice this last track up now with some embellishments.

11:26 Runtime

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Tim Stewart

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Lady Gaga

  • Los Angeles, California
  • Playing since 1985
  • 93 lessons at JamPlay
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Reviews & Feedback 98/100 with 405 ratings
senglish001

This what I joined Jamplay to learn.

J.Rod

Really like this instructor and what he's teaching.

milisha1985

Want to come back to this series and don't want to lose my place

lightnin1

Always learning...from a different point of view.

Marlon23

Great class!

greggos

And......it's just what I needed. I feel liked I've hit the Jackpot finding Tim on Jamplay. Laid back, humble guy who is the type of player I've always wanted to be !!

jerrytbone

This course is awesome. Great balance of great licks and music theory. Great range of styles are presented - with really inspiring examples. Tim is a terrific teacher. Can't recommend this course enough. Two thumbs up.

PatW

Possibly my favourite JamPlay course ever. Great to have something challenging and tasty presented so well.

RobBoss

Mixing chords with licks, sounds great! thanks

jacksonm

great way to improve although going to take a lot... of practice... but very good and like the practice tracks thanks !

weirdyfly

All of the above

szabojesse

I like how he doesn't really go into the "why" of each chord. He moves through quickly. It's nice because the information isn't a huge concept, you just have to do it. But maybe an actual link to a lesson that covers diatonic/modal concoepts wo

joeythehulk

great knowledge

BryceAppleby

Great all around!

musicbydavid

22 guided practice clip actually belongs to 21. 22 guided practice seems to be

noletop

Very cool lesson!

andreapuddu

Come per le triadi maggiori ottimo esercizio per memorizzare le triadi minori.

ScottSyl

Great course, great teacher!

19aelopez96

This course is probably my favorite guitar course I’ve ever taken, and it’s pretty unique. It’s hard to find others that focus on this set of tools and this genre - RnB. These video clips are immediately useful.

hitchcock

count ins on the practice repetitions please.

Madsky550

This has helped my rhythm playing and gave me new ideas to work with. I have not gotten through entire lesson but trying to focus on the little that I have absorbed

SchneidyB

Great way to work triads

jmaes8216

simple techniques applied in a manageable way. Great stuff!

dmavis712

all the above. this opened a door for me. solid work

DocDaFunk

Such a perfect progression within the lesson practicing all those different stuffs and getting exercise that mixed them up thank u so much!

TJD

Great lessons and an incredible player!

Docrx

motivation to revisit fret board knowledge.

Kubus007

I've tried a few courses on here and this is by far the best one. Perfect balance between explanation and practice.

neiya

Really interesting!

Caf_gob14

Tim Stewart is easily the best guitar teacher I've ever had. I've completed less than 20% of the course and my guitar knowledge has grown exponentially. Learning from him is definitely a privilege.

RalfRamone

This is very very hard

Ast3rix

I like that he starts out showing how to take advantage of the whole fret board and doesn't just zone in on a box. It really makes you open up and learn the rest of the fretboard.

Carl.young22

Love it!