STREAMING OR DOWNLOAD ONLY. Learn great funk, R&B and pop rhythm parts that will add just the right groove to your playing. Alex Weir teaches a variety of ideas and gives advice on pick speed, rhythmic development, tonal variations, damping, hand and wrist positions, timing, lots more. Best of all, you'll learn his unique rhythm parts, single-string lines and funk riffs that enhanced hit songs by Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Jerry Harrison and The Brothers Johnson. The lesson is rounded out with exercises that will help you get your rhythm chops in top form. Songs demonstrated: Burning Down the House, I Zimbra, Genius of Love, Get the Funk Outta My Face, Big Business, Thunder Thumbs and Lightning Licks, and Rev It Up. As a special treat, Louis Johnson, one of the all-time great bass players and guitarist Tetsugi Ogawa, join Alex for some hot and funky jams. 80 min.