The Place Between Rhythm & Lead

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Sound Tools Used in This Vid:

0:00 IDLES "The Beachland Ballroom"
0:48 Intro
1:17 Look At The Changes
2:00 Play The Changes
2:33 Guitar Is Commonly Taught Like
2:56 It Is Difficult to Play Rhythm & Lead
3:50 CAGED Structures & Pentatonics
4:48 This Beautiful Guitar
5:18 E Major Pentatonic
6:25 The Arrangement
7:04 The Ability To See 2 Things At Once
7:51 This Ain't Easy
9:40 Hendrix Doublestop
10:50 Radiohead "Electioneering"
11:38 The Second Eric
12:12 Good Job, Daniel
13:30 Review
14:40 The Course is About Progressions
15:22 Thank You

[andrefludd]

The highest tier of guitar mastery lives between rhythm and lead! We should all strive to work toward it. Thanks for the tips!

[derekbrou]

You're a very calming presence in my life right now, I appreciate the Zen approach you have to music

[AMPMReviews]

It’s crazy how much Hendrix and Clapton styles have on us now. Double stops and major/min pentatonic and then trills. So so good. It’s everywhere. From Led Better, Mayer, to I could die a happy man country stuff and Stapleton, to Wild Rivers, to basically anything good. 😊

[DDLazlo]

Eric, I've watched hundreds of hours of online "lessons". Somehow, I've missed you until now. Something in your approach has clicked and I've broken through a wall. You're speaking and playing in a way that I connect with. I can feel a lot of floating ideas coalescing into a coherent picture. It feels "next level"!! Thanks for being there, man!

[JohnBrown-zu]

I love IDLES so much. If everybody felt their music like they do, the world would be an even better place.

[jeanallard]

Thank you Eric, I have to say that I have never been so happy to support a creator, I really appreciate what you do.

[edfederoff]

Great lesson, Eric! The corner of the guitar universe you're talking about is indeed the place we all seek to be - it's the key to truly making music, rather than repeating memorized riffs. If you're a solo player that wants to sound like a band, it's a necessity. Your walk through the fundamentals to get us seeing how to run like pros is a revelation. A shout out to Wes Montgomery, who's use of the octave interval taught all the Pentatonic rockers how to put sparkle in a lead line.

[NineInchFailz]

You have so many unique god-tier video ideas. It’s refreshing to see concept based videos like this and not just the usual “blues scale soloing.” For sure will be purchasing your course

[quintondeanmusic]

“If the chord progression is dope you don’t have to do that much” This right here! If the progression and melody are awesome this is so so easy to do! My singer/songwriter always compliments my playing and I’m just like, girl! You wrote a dope at melody/chord progression, I’m just following along!

[DennisK]

Man, you have found your calling. Very cool. You are speaking my language. This is what I have have been missing in my guitar playing. Great sounding set up you have. I’m all in.

[mikeseder]

That's a badass guitar. Thanks for the great lesson!

[WolfmanAC]

Thanks for all the great content! Really appreciate your approach to teaching as well as your playing. Keep on being awesome.

[MrTIMU]

Look at this guitar! When the changes are DOPE...you don't have to shoehorn something in! Love you.

[eddiefenton]

Best music channel on Youtube at the moment. Thank you so much for this!

[mattgilbert]

That space is where I live. Thanks for this one, Eric.

[Cowdog]

That guitar is so off the charts... so is your playing. Cheers...

[guloguloguy]

WOW!! THANK YOU, ERIC, FOR THIS INCREDIBLE DEMO/LESSON!! THAT'S A VERY NICE LOOKING, AND, SOUNDING GUITAR!!

[rbophonic]

Playing the changes is a great course title. Can’t wait to check it out!

[DamonNicholls]

Your tone and feel is always spot on and keeps getting better and better. Very inspiring. I’m a fan of your aesthetics too. The plants and colors. That new guitar sounds and looks amazing. Thanks for the great content. I’m gonna check out that Idles song. I didn’t realize they had melodic stuff. I remember them as more thrash punk.

[DrProgNerd]

Beautiful tone. Beautiful playing. Beautiful guitar. Thank you for the lesson.