Re: Rhythm

Tony Done wrote:
We have a lot of discussion of scales, chords, metronomes and the like, but rhythmic skill isn't often mentioned. Here's an example where it is almost all about rhythmic ability:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8RtayjqqIw


All lot of the old blues players had well-developed skills of this kind, including my hero Fred McDowell. Flamenco players also have it in spades. Any other examples that depend on the guitar player's rhythmic skills, as opposed to just a good sense of timing and expression, where the music is made in large part by the rhythm?

Hope this makes sense, I wrote it in a hurry.

Tony D


Leo Kottke.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnQTC5ICGik&feature=related

Also check out the various versions of him doing Vaseline Machine Gun that you can find on the web. The high octane version when he was young, and the funkier way he plays it now.
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