Chords for 6 Great R&B Rhythm Guitar Fills You Must Know

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Hi everyone, this is Rick at Tasty Guitar.
_ Today we're going to be focusing on some great R&B rhythm guitar fills.
_ Now these are really essential _ when playing old Motown, soul, ballads.
These are great stuff to have in your arsenal.
_ _ _ Especially if you're in a situation where you might be playing with another guitar player
or a keyboard player and you don't want to just be _ playing the same exact arpeggio or
chord pattern that they are.
_ _ You can throw these in and add some color in the right spots.
They're really effective.
Okay, these are going to be all in the key of C.
[Bb] _ And let's get started. _
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Alright now this first lick is something really common.
You'll hear this in a lot of old school tunes. _ _
It's commonly used going from the [F] 1 to the 4 [C] back to the 1.
_ _ In our case here we're going to play this in C.
From the C [F] to the F [C] back to the C. _ _
_ Okay, _ very easy lick.
Just a couple little hammer-ons. _ _ _ _
It's all about where you place it.
Okay, so I'm going to play the chords here and you'll hear where to put it.
_ _ _ _ There's our C [F] back to the F.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ So you can lead back to the [F] C. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [C] _ now another place you'll hear this lick a lot is going from the 1 chord to the 6 chord.
Okay, so in the key of C we're talking about C down to A minor.
Alright, so I'm going to play the changes and we'll see where we can put it there.
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_ _ now the second lick is also something that works really well over both the 1 to
the 4 and the 1 to the 6.
And you can put it in a lot of different situations. _
Here's how this one goes. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ Okay, the third lick today is based off of the A minor 7 chord, the 6 chord in the key of C.
And we're going to take it off the shape of a minor 7 chord based with the root on the 5th string.
In this case the root way up here on the 12th fret.
_ _ Okay, it's a very easy lick.
Just a little bit of a hammer on _ [Dm] and [C] a little slide. _ _ _ _
[D] _ [C] _ _ And this works great [Am] _ over a minor 7 chord.
Of course it's also movable.
[Dm] So if you want to play it in, say, D, _ _ right there,
just find your D minor 7 chord shape on the 5th string. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ [F] _ _ _ _ There you have it.
_ [Gm] _ [F] _ [Em] There's E. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ Okay, so now let's see what this sounds like over the A [Am] minor 7 chord. _
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_ _ [C] _ Okay, [Am] _ _ _
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_ this next lick would work real well over a static [C] 1 chord _ in, say, like a 6-8 ballad.
_ _ Very easy.
It's [Em] based on the [C] 6th intervals. _
_ And let's see how this one goes. _ _
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_ _ _ _ Okay, this next lick is very similar to the one we did before.
It's pretty much the same sound except we're going to be using intervals of thirds.
_ [Dm] _ _ [G] _ [Ab] _ [Dm] _
[Em] _ _ _ _ You can use it also, it works great over a ballad, a 6-8 ballad. _
_ But it's a very versatile kind of lick.
Let's hear what it sounds [C] like. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [Am] _ [C] _ for the final lick [G] today, this [Am] one works really well from a 6 chord back to the 1 [C] chord. _
So if we were going from [Am] our A minor to our C, _ check this out.
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Very simple.
[G] You'll hear this in a [Am] lot of tunes. _ _
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Alright, _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ [Am] from here on, I'm just going to play kind of a combination [C] of all the licks we learned today.
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_ _ [G] _ _ _ Alright guys, thank you so much for stopping by today and checking out these great essential guitar fills.
_ Please make sure you try to practice them in all keys [A] [Dbm] and different fingerings and phrasings.
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Thank you. _ _ _ _ _ _
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