wanna improve your RHYTHM? ....Play THIS song

TABS : bit.ly/3YDfDR3
0:00 Demonstration
01:02 About the song
01:50 Chords
2:20 Strumming
5:49 Solo
8:27 Play along

[@GuitarPilgrim]

Huge thanks to all patrons for your support! Your tabs for this video are available here: bit.ly/3YDfDR3

[@silverpairaducks]

It's a clave rythmn

[@rickrs410]

New Patron here! Lots of good stuff to work with; your Creedence Clearwater Revival brought me in. Good stuff for some old school guys like me that never really developed lead guitar skills. Minor thing, for the patron list can you do a change for me? The last name is SteveRson (capital R just to highlight where the Stevenson error is, don't do it that way :)), and you can can just shorten the "Rickey R" to "Rick".

[@SR11266]

Nice video, good singing too! Bo Diddley called this a jungle rhythm

[@sapelesteve]

That was awesome Thom! That rhythm guitar part is a classic for sure! Hope that you & your family are doing well. 🎸🎸👍👍

[@markhorton1718]

This is one of the most fun songs to play in my opinion. Great lesson, mate!!!

[@jayg3559]

Love this channel.

[@Yumashell]

Awesome ! Always love your playing and teaching style!

[@MrBBaron]

I always enjoy your breakdown of songs.

[@jamesfoo8999]

Brilliant as usual! Really helpful, and as always you hit all the notes perfectly. Also, FWIW, you don't have a bad voice. If I sing the dogs bark for about 2.5 miles.

[@ross3239]

Thanks for your videos, they are very useful to me

[@buddhamus]

Nice lesson. Thank you for this.

[@shawn576]

Never heard this before, but that's a banger of a song.

[@flatblackpolitics3819]

Very nice young man thank you so much

[@JudgeFredd]

You’re not only a great guitarist but a great musician too.

[@rezkinginternational]

Great love it.

[@soulagent79]

"Magic Bus" by the Who also has that rhythm. I've read that's the way salesman used to knock on people's doors and that is where Bo Diddley got it from.

[@gtrdoc911]

Nice lesson Thom. You play in the manner of the Stones. But Buddy Holly played the rhythm differently. He stressed the 2 and 4 beats of the first bar then the 3 and 4 of the second bar occasionally playing a stacatto E chord (D shape on the 4th fret) on beat 4 of the second bar. Buddy’s way of playing it is quite a bit more challenging and interesting.

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

Merci. Yes it was the Crickets. Funny how so many of those bands covered Buddy Holly, still do.

[@motopazury]

I feel your power 😮

[@keithskelton4914]

hey man many thanks magic from my guitar today thanks to your tutorial

[@jeffrowlette]

The Bo Diddly beat!

[@andrewmcp7563]

The first thing I've taken from this is the way you (nearly always) play an A chord! That makes so much sense... though breaking my very well embedded A-habit might be tricky! Thanks for another great tutorial, Thom.

[@MrXyzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz]

That's an A with the index finger on the G string and the middle/ring fingers either side. This has two advantages 1) you can get all three fingers close to the second fret making the sound better with less finger pressure, especially compared to the standard "straight A" chord shape. If you have large fingertips like I do, you find that the index finger is way back, almost on the 1st fret using standard shape. 2) The chord change from E to A is really quick and easy as the indexfinger never moves from the G string. You just slide it from 1st to second fret and shift the other two fingers accross. A to D is just as easy as you also anchor the index finger on the G string second fret. I learnt this from "Justin guitar" (Aka Justin Sandercoe) and it has been a real game changer for me.

[@chrsrans1]

I appreciate what your saying and I’m a big fan of Buddy Holly and his version of this song, but I think the way thom teaches it would be great for a campfire song with one guitar. Both great versions which ever way you look at it. 👍

[@LazLore]

Hello, l really enjoyed watching your video.😊

[@m444ss]

PS - great advice on the A chord. that had been giving me fits going between E, A & D but no more.

[@LoveFlatfootin1]

I love the way the Grateful Dead do this song, also Iko Iko.

[@russlgtr]

This is awesome. Thank you for the great song tutorial. Did you glue pick guard back on?

[@breathplay112]

Nice! Always thought this was Prince rythm

[@timothydaniels504]

They call it the shave and haircut rhythm. Shave and a haircut, two bits. Try it, it works.

[@Diamond82kru]

But a gotta have faith 😆

[@pepmasters-999]

The Bo Diddley rhythm must have come from the clave rhythm -- prevalent in much Mexican and Cuban dance music -- and ultimately derived from Africa.

[@tippysdad6937]

Heyyyyy bo didleyyyyy

[@patrickgueguin792]

Ten thousands thumb up

[@lolzlarkin3059]

I immediately think of that bloody I Want Candy song. 😂 what's wrong with me.😢

[@BoynamedMagnus183]

What are your opinion on The Black Crowes?

[@robsthedon]

I think they are great, especially first two albums remind me of the Allman Brothers, Chris Robinson such a great singer.

[@BoynamedMagnus183]

@@robsthedon i didn`t ask you!🤦🏼

[@encoreunefois1X]

Love the Allman Brothers, such musicianship and writing. Not that keen on the Black Crowes, I can listen to them alright but a bit too derivative and lack anything really special to make up for it for my taste. @@robsthedon😏

[@robsthedon]

@@encoreunefois1Xyes maybe not up to the level of The Allman brothers, but the first BC album has so much soul

[@rickrs410]

Get this down and you've got half the Bo Diddley catalog! Well, maybe not, but there's a lot. I learnt a variation of this copying Bo Diddley's "Mona" off an old Chess Record compilation from back about 1970. Bo Diddley may have picked it up from others, and you can hear it Johnny Otis's Willy and the Hand Jive.

[@urbanoramos5229]

How do you keep your wrist so loose without breaking it is beyond me 😅😅, but great lesson as always

[@adolfohuet3974]

Your impression of mick jagger is not bad

[@guyhanoi8561]

Thanx a lot, But easy it's not :)

[@wjpde]

There is a great clip by Scott Ainslie who talks and plays a diddley bow. This is where the rhythm is coming from kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqrWZ5ejerKsiM0

[@richardattemborg2823]

Buddy Holly lives.

[@silverpairaducks]

Its a son clave rythmn.

[@gabrielflores5735]

I think that George Michael used that rythm in "Faith"

[@EnglishRain]

Not Fade Away - Rolling Stones

[@Casper.Raptorr]

Cracks me up how immediately I realized Aaron Carter ripped this off of the Rolling Stones. Anyone want candy?

[@stringstruggle]

Where is your 814CE DLX?

[@randykintzley5923]

It's a Buddy Holly song, but the vibe is 100 percent Bo Diiddley

[@matthewoconnell114]

Great lesson and great song. Nice breakdown. Love that little solo.