Guitar Courses on African Music: Soukouss, Makossa, Rumba.

You will learn how to position the fingers properly on the neck of the guitar in order to:

• Make the notes of the chord sound good without "crackling" or "buzzing"

• Making it easier for you to move from one chord to another

• The 3 major chords of a scale (I, IV, V) in all scales of the major mode

• 4-tone barred chords, complete or simplified

• Must Know Opened Major Chords on the guitar (Part 2: From A to C)

• Main Harmony concept to know to be able to play any song on the guitar

You will learn:

• Skills and Talent for a good guitarist

• Practice Tips and Tricks for electric guitar to play with ease

Everything you need to learn about :

• The importance of Chords Progression played with respect to the beat (with the help of a metronome or  a drum backing track)

• How to use arpeggios fingerings in the right hand

• The field of play (the musical scale) covered by the  accompanying guitar in a song

• The basics about harmony to be able to play any song in african styles

• The difference from rhythm or accompanying guitar

• The Field (positions on the neck) and playing range of the guitar soloist

• Basics Principles and Practices to know for the guitar soloist when performing a song

• Discover the almost complete forms of the major chords for rhythm guitar and accompaniment in African Soukouss, Rumba music and more

• The chords around which will be built some solo phrases

• the definition of what is called "Temps" in the codified "jargon" of most Soukouss/Sebene styles

• Learn and memorise the main mode patterns of the major scale used to construct guitar solo lines

• Practice some  simple exercices on the modes to gain finger flow ease

• Breaking Down the Double Stops Technique which means two notes played simultaneously so on two different strings of the guitar

• Explain the harmonized scale in thirds and Show the related fingerings on 2 strings of the guitar

• You will understand the importance of mastering the right hand of the soloist by practicing precision exercises.

• You will learn to master the pick in the playing techniques of African music on styles such as soukouss, sebene, rumba, makossa..

A short introduction for the tutorial explaining the  Fingerstyle technique used by the right hand

This famous song is entitled "Lipua Lipua", originally played by a congolese great guitarist "Mombassa".

You need less than 10 min to be able to play it!

A dynamic Tabs of the track is display as a prompter on the video very slowly so that you can easily follow during your rehearsal

• Download the Tabs in attached

• Download the drum Backing Track in attached

Here is the full Tutorial with all the explanations necessary to transcribe the song on the guitar.

Follow the instructions and advices to be able to replay it by your one, easily

Introduction to Rumba/Soukouss/Sebene music by playing Rhythm guitar

Performance of the Rhythm guitar on a Rumba/Soukouss/Sebene African Soundtrack

• You will learn how to use arpeggios and Palm mute on the strings with the right hand by following the pace

• Get the Tabs and the Backing Tracks in the ressources

• You will parctice arpeggios with the fingers in the atypical rhythm of Rumba/Soukouss/Seben and strings jumps

• You will get the custum to play on 4 notes(4strings) chords shapes

• This is a perfect example of Rumba music style in Rhythm guitar and lead Guitar

• You will understand how to play up tempos to fit to this kind of music

  
  

• Slow Video with Dynamic Tabs for the Rhythm Guitar

• Lead Guitar lines played slowly with Dynamic Tabs prompted on the screen

• Backing Tracks in ressources: Track without Rhythm Guitar and Track without Lead Guitar

• An example of Rumba style Fingerstyle played on Acoustic Guitar with Tabs

• You can download The associated Backing tracks and playbak on it: 1) BT_without_Rhythm 2) BT_without_Solo

• You can download the Rhytm Guitar Tabs & score in the ressources