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- Southern Rock GroovesLEVEL 5A succession of grooves in a classic southern rock style. Improve your timing- and your instrumental control!
- Progressive Funk GroovesLEVEL 7Intense funk based on classic rock sounding grooves + odd tempos.
- Funk Fusion GroovesLEVEL 6A solid funk rhythm progression, spiced up with a fusion sound. A nice exercise for your timing and your groove control.
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Muris Varajic20th October 2008Doing my best,cheers
Jad Diab20th October 2008Love it, you got lot of feeling muris
- Muris Varajic20th October 2008
Thanks A LOT!
Pi3820th October 2008This is absolutely beautiful. It's just so...ah, so great. Words can't describe how awesome this is. The chords work perfectly together. One of your best lessons yet for sure.
- Muris Varajic18th October 2008
Ah,pa da,Vojvodina,
Madjarska,mogao sam i predpostaviti! 
Zsolt Galambos18th October 2008Pa iz Vojvodine, sa malog sela pored reke Tise, koje se zove Bachko Gradishte.
- Muris Varajic18th October 2008
Appreciate it Ian,cheers.
Ian Bushell18th October 2008That is brilliant Muris, i like this riff alot:)
Nice grooves:)- Muris Varajic17th October 2008Pa i ja sam sa podruchja bivshe Juge:P
Zar??
Odakle? - Zsolt Galambos17th October 2008
Pa i ja sam sa podruchja bivshe Juge:P
mattacuk16th October 2008This is a really excellent and very usefull lesson
- Muris Varajic15th October 2008To Brate!
That's really nice! I love it!
Where did you learn that? 
Thanks Zsolt,appreciate it. - Zsolt Galambos15th October 2008
To Brate!
That's really nice! I love it! - Muris Varajic15th October 2008
Sorry to hear about the accident Kylde,
hope you'll be fine soon enough tho!
And thanks for comments guys. 
Kuba Szafran15th October 2008Really cool stuff Muris, as always
!
kyldeee15th October 2008This lesson is so cool... one of my favorites from you
Too bad I have tendonitis on my shoulder/chest area (work accident), so no guitar for me for a while 
But only watchin your videos always gives me so much inspiration, so thanks... Keep making these awesome lesson, and hopefully I'll be able to pick up the guitar soon
P.S It's hard to write only with ur left hand
Take care
-Kylde
Alex8715th October 2008Nice lesson Muris, good thing to practice
- Muris Varajic15th October 2008
I knew that was coming sooner or latter
Thanks tho! 
melodious15th October 2008Great one! Reminds me of Muris
- Muris Varajic15th October 2008
Thanks Jose.
Jose Mena14th October 2008Great lesson Muris, and great tone
- Muris Varajic14th October 2008
Appreciate it,thanks!
David Wallimann14th October 2008Beautiful Muris!
This should be a full song!
Jerry Arcidiacono14th October 2008Really great lesson Muris. Don't know why but this music sounds to me like a cool intro for a guitar instructional video
- Muris Varajic14th October 2008
Glad you like it guys,cheers
Trond Vold14th October 2008Love it
Smooth and cool
Mr T13th October 2008Reminds me of Satriani as well. I like it alot
- Muris Varajic13th October 2008
Thanks fellows!
Hisham Al-Sanea13th October 2008very good lesson Muris.nice grooves
Alejandro Pinero13th October 2008very nice and cool grooves!!
Thanks for this one!
Dejan Farkas13th October 2008Cool one mate, I say Satriani
- Muris Varajic13th October 2008
Tastes are indeed different,
someone said Satriani,you said Vai,
then someone said Gilbert,Lukather etc. - Drazz9913th October 2008
This is a really great lesson. I always look foward to them. Is it me or does this have a Steve Vai kinda sound to it?
- Muris Varajic13th October 2008
Thanks guys.
- fatb0t13th October 2008
Beautiful melody Muris =)
Gerardo Siere13th October 2008Amazing lesson Muris, keep groovin`!
- Muris Varajic13th October 2008One of your best lessons so far. :-)
Great to hear,thanks! 
Storm Linnebjerg13th October 2008One of your best lessons so far. :-)
kaznie_NL13th October 2008Thnx Muris!
Vinod Saranga13th October 2008Great Lesson Muris
Very understandable
You make it so clear.
Gabriel Leopardi13th October 2008cool licks and grooves Muris!
Capt.Z13th October 2008Very cool! Your lessons are always cool
- Muris Varajic13th October 2008
Appreciate it guys,much thanks.
Seagull,there are basically 2 approaches for counting odd beats/grooves
and it all depends of type if the groove/grooves.
Easier one is when you have the same odd groove playing in loop,
lets say 7/8,5/4 etc.
When groove is the same all the time it kind a gets into you,
you feel the groove so there is no need to really count it.
And more harder situation is like it this lesson,
when grooves are changing all the time,
it needs real focus and real counting,like 1234,12345,1212123 etc,
schemes are many but it needs to be counted.
You may count it by stepping with the foot and counting in your mind
or you say count it on loud,pronouncing every beat. 
Nemanja Filipovic13th October 2008Amazing lesson Muris.
seagull13th October 2008Fantastic lesson yet again Muris!
I have no problems playing it, however I've never really learned how to count measures, except for straight 4/4 measures. Any advice on this? I think it's very simple, but since I've never had problems playing most measure values, I've never really bothered to learn to count them.
Jeff13th October 2008This is cool, Muris. It almost sounds like Steve Lukather stuff.
Ivan Milenkovic13th October 2008SOunds great Muris, good timing exercises, and great tone.
kivler13th October 2008beautiful ; a satch feel to it.thanx
Oxac13th October 2008Very nice floating feel to it. I like it Muris, a very nice composition! Good not only for getting the "odd" but cool grooves but it also enhances ones timing.
Keep up the good work.
zoom13th October 2008Yeah really nice Muris I get a nice warm fussy feeling listening to it!
Nazgul13th October 2008I really like the slight pinches. You rule, Muris.
Emir Hot13th October 2008great job man
don't go to any competition with this odd stuff
Bogdan Radovic13th October 2008Wow this was very cool Muris !! Love how you change the meter from bar to bar but keep the overall feeling going
- AnyJimmy13th October 2008
Reminds me of "hurry up" by Paul Gilbert, off of the "Get out of my yard" album.
- AWESOME 
RIP Dime13th October 2008Awesome, I love the lessons with odd grooves, so needless to say I really enjoy this lesson, and I'll be spending some time on it.
Marcus Siepen13th October 2008Great lesson Muris, cool grooves and nice melodies
DeepRoots13th October 2008Cool, this is something i've been working on lately- so it'll be cool to learn this one and also jam on the backing track- thanks Muris
Pedja Simovic13th October 2008Awesome job Muris !
Simple yet very effective way of demonstrating metric modulation.
Love this one!!!
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Hello GMC and welcome to my lesson called Odd Grooves. Here we are going to play some kind of rhythm licks using bars 4/4,5/4,6/4 and 7/4. Order of these bars isn't that obvious so focus yourself in which bar you're currently in. As for the technique, you can use all downstrokes if you want cause its nothing too fast indeed. If not, then go for alternate, maybe combined with all downstrokes, this is fully up to you guys. :)
Chords we have here are G#m7/9, Eadd9, C#m7 and Aadd9. So basically it's all in key of G# minor except this last chord Aadd9, it's from G# Phrygian,2nd degree of this mode.
I used kind of an overdrive sound with pinch harmonics here and there, these harmonics sound really nice here so give it a shot if you want, not the must tho. Tempo is 155 bpm but we are playing 8th notes top so it's not that fast as it seems. :D
Settings for Korg Pandora PX4D are
SLG > HUM 3.0
US HI-G Gain 6.3 Bass 2.0 Middle 0.7 Treble 5.0
JAZ 1x15 8.0
No Mod Effx
PPDLy3 5.3
PLATE 1 1.7
Hope you'll like this lesson, count wise and ask if you need anything! :)
Muris Varajic
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