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African Guitar Essentials: Rumba/Soukouss/Sebene Tutos
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African Guitar Essentials: Rumba/Soukouss/Sebene Tutos

Guitar Tutorials
Created byStephane Girod
Last updated 5/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Step-by-step guitar phrasing and soloing on melodious famous african soundtracks to become familiar with most used chords and scales
  • Catch the Essentials playing techniques throughout practical tutorials to be able to play Rumba, Soukouss, Sebene Styles
  • Master various African rhytms by playing in real context with Tabs, Backing Track Riffs
  • See an authentic improvement in your guitar playing and enjoy by interpreting originals African Music songs

Course content

3 sections20 lectures53m total length
  • Preview0:26
  • Performance (Normal Speed of the song)1:14

    Lead Guitar played slowly with dynamic tabs on screen

  • Slow Vidéos motion with Dynamic Tabs1:51

    Lead Guitar played slowly with dynamic tabs on screen

  • Tabs & Scores & Backing Tracks1:51
  • Rumba Sound Broken Down10:11

Requirements

  • Having followed the course "Guitar Courses on African Music: Soukouss, Makossa, Rumba"
  • Be able to Follow and Soloing on chords progressions (Major/Minor chords)

Description

This course is intended to make you familiar with Lead Guitar and Rhythm Guitar played on typical Rumba, Soukouss, Sebene African styles which are known as the most joyful, the most melodically rich, and full of great playing techniques.

By practicing these tutorials you will not Struggle with soloing over African songs standards.

You will be able to mix up scales, modes, Triads, or arpeggios applied on real songs.

I’m going to tell you exactly why I suggest you to follow this course:

I believe that when you play through these Tutorials, you can’t help but see massive improvements in your guitar playing.

And As you improve, you enjoy playing guitar more, and moreover, on various musical genre.

The more you enjoy playing african guitar styles, the more you practice, & you see even more improvement on the fretboard.  You find yourself in a feedback loop of positivity and progress in the practice room.

Here you will appropriate some famous lines by Congolese guitar heroes like Extra musica,  Alain Makaba from Wenge Musica,  Madilu system and many more..

All the lines are broken down into easy slow patterns, on basic chords progression such as 1-4-5-4, or 1-4-1-5 and key intervals on which the soukouss, sebene, Rumba, etc.. styles are built.

You will exercice your capacity to be fluent playing on the entire fretboard by mixing up many soloing techniques borrowed from other styles such as Jazz, Rock, ..


Who this course is for:

  • For those who want to be able to transcribe melodies, chords, and solos by ear of their favorite African music songs
  • For those who want to have fun playing African Rumba, Soukouss, Sebene Guitar soundtracks
  • For Those who are able and appreciate reading Tabs & Scores to interpret Songs