A huge percentage of what all professional guitar players play is rhythm guitar. Eddie Van Halen, Eric Clapton and SRV are all incredibly cool rhythm guitar players. Learn to develop the most fundamental of musical essentials – a good sense of time and feel, plus dozens more musical concepts that will serve any aspiring accompanist. Learn about: developing a strong rhythmic feel right hand exercises Incredibly funky funk vamps Rhythm and blues progressions thinking like a drummer organization and arrangement in contemporary song forms fundamental rhythmic concept syncopation and complex rhythm studies signal processing: delay effects bubble and percolator picking double stop playing antecedent and consequent (call and response) phrasing single-note popping learning to lock with the pocket reggae styles overdrive effects lots of alternative voicings.