As Grant has mentioned in previous lessons, many contemporary tunes stray from conventional meters, and building confidence in rhythms based on five or seven pulses per bar is worth pursuing. In this month’s lesson, Grant shows you how to take a familiar tune in four-square time, drop a beat, and convert it into a variation in 7/4. In this lesson, he takes the old standard “Eighth of January” and transforms it into “The Seven of January.” The original tune and variation are in the key of D, and Grant plays them out of C position with a capo on the second fret. In this video, you’ll review the rhythm guitar part for the original “Eighth of January” and then get a feel for playing the same changes with a 7/4 groove.
