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🔗 Mix Rhythm and Lead: Easy, Fun and a Solid Foundation 🎵EN 00:00 Mixing rhythm and lead guitar 01:38 Blues shuffle in A 02:09 Keeping time and landing on beat one 02:55 Choosing your minor pentatonic notes 03:44 Adding simple quarter-note fills 05:16 Adding eighth-note fills 06:13 Adding triplets 07:46 Why the rhythm of your lead matters 08:55 How to practice each rhythm 10:49 Putting it together in a 12-bar blues 11:44 Practice recap and next steps 🆓 Get the lesson PDF & Guitar Pro files: http://justinguitar.com/mix-rhythm-lead 💡 Learn how to mix rhythm and lead guitar without losing the groove. In Part 1 of this blues guitar series, we’ll combine a blues shuffle in A with simple A minor pentatonic fills. 👉 Start with just three notes on the beat, then explore eighth notes and triplets before putting it all together over a 12-bar blues. Keep your foot tapping and land back on beat one. The key is the rhythm of your lead playing! ☝️ Sign up abov...

🔗 3 Pentatonic Tricks That Make Your Licks Last FOREVER 🎵EN 00:00 Intro 01:20 Trick 1 02:11 Trick 2 02:53 Trick 3 04:00 All 3 Improvised! 04:24 2nd Half Of The Lick 05:24 The Full Lick Slow 🚨 Pentatonic Fluency: Get Fluent with the Pentatonic Scale! ➡️ https://troydownward.com/courses/pentatonic-fluency/ 🎟️ Use code pentatonic40 for 40% OFF NOW! 🎸 Get TABs, Backing Tracks & Exclusive Content: ➡️ https://www.patreon.com/troydownward (Free Trial Available!) 📁 Download Extras - TD_215 ➡️ COMING SOON! You absolutely need to get these three moves under your fingers if you want to really move freely on the fretboard. This combination is my favourite, and it will be yours in no time, too! Thanks for watching! 🎸 MORE LICKS! ✅ https://youtu.be/bcAOvkXZFm0?si= ✅ https://youtu.be/irbp0HZIG6Y?si=9l1yZrbV1KGgYGdk ✅ https://youtu.be/2HVHkx0aF5Y ✅ https://youtu.be/RZMFmcHEDXE ✅ https://youtu.be/n8jqXLdwRKM ✅ https://youtu.be/B8Fx9Lh2WBk ✅ https://youtu.be/_W...