I realise that i spend a lot of time playing or practicing lead guitar. But thought this might a good resource for people wanting to pitch in a share tracks that they have learnt that was a real benefit to there learning rhythm. I pay in cover bands so the styles are varied but sometimes you want more exciting parts than just strumming open chords!
Here a few that i have learnt that love! It can be any style too.
Bold as Love - John Mayer version
Good track to take basic chords and do the hendrix thing over the top creating melodies.
Minor Swing - Django Reinhart
Up tempo using 6 chords
Soul Man - Sam and Dave
Lots of 6th intervals. Good groove and timing
Back in Black
Tight rock track. Anyone else play the C" on the A Chord?
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I like the rhythm playing on the end of Hendrix's All along the Watchtower, awesome bit of rhythm playing that really stands out
Van Halens Panama is another great bit
Loads of Knopler stuff
I should practice rhythm playing more than I do
Yeah agree. I find rhythm playing a lot of fun but it's easy just to play what you know and not advance! So thought this would a fun way of listing tracks people like.
Pretty much anything by Nile Rodgers: Le Freak, Lost In Music, Good Times...
Loads of Hendrix Stuff: Wind Cries Mary maybe
Thin Lizzy: The Rocker (The Eric Bell version)
Extreme (Nuno): Get The Funk Out, etc...
Reef: Place Your Hands
Rose Royce: Car Wash
Earth Wind And Fire: September
SRV: Cold Shot
Prince: Kiss
Lenny Kravitz: Fly Away
Wilko Johnson's playing is interesting - thumb on the upstrokes, and hints of a Spanish roll on the downstrokes.
Get The Funk Out is fun to get you started (and fairly easy). He Man Woman Hater is much more challenging, though, and not just technically - the timing in the verse is really weird, and you don't really hear it until you try to play it.
Cupid's Dead has a nice vibe to it, too, and a lot of the stuff on Waiting For The Punchline is really fun to work with (Cynical and the bonus title track are my favourites there).
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
The Nile Rogers thing gets boring for me, I mean I appreciate what he does but it tends to be the same thing every time.
Caleb Followill from Kings of Leon plays some interesting rhythms
Bernard Butler, the original Suade guitarist played some amazing rhythm parts
The Edge has got some serious rhythm chops, check out The End of the world, Pride, Vertigo etc
The Doobies "Long train running" and "Listen to the music"
Another +1 for Eddie Van Halen - fabulous rhythm guitarist. In a similar vein, and not sure if it's your bag but look at Steve Vai's work from the Dave Lee Roth solo albums or Nuno Bettancourt of Extreme or Vito Bratta of White Lion. There's some great stuff on Whitesnake's "1987" album.
Alive and Kicking by Mr Big
La Grange by ZZ Top
Venus Isle by Eric Johnson
Road Games by Allan Holdsworth
Confidence Man by Jeff Healey
Atlas Overload by Carl Verheyen
Wanted Dead Or Alive by Bon Jovi
Rio by Duran Duran
In A Garden by Murrumbidgee Whalers
Funk #49
Stop by Janes Addiction
Can't Stop and by RHCP.
Need you tonight by INXS
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Voivod - Tribal Convictions
Drudkh - Summoning the Rain
Dark Angel - Ancient Inherited Shame
Confessor - Condemned
Trouble - The Tempter
Death Angel - Shores Of Sin
nice, but I really haven't got the hair for that!
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They will kick your ass to the kerb by playing a regular Am chord you never even knew existed!