How to Play Country Lead Guitar

Here is a comprehensive stylistic breakdown of country Guitar techniques from the past 50 years. Drawing inspiration from the timelessly innovative licks of Merle Travis Chet Atkins Albert Lee Vince Gill Brent Mason and Brad Paisley the near 90 musical examples within these pages will hone your left and right hands with technical string-bending and rolling licks while sharpening your knowledge of the thought process behind creating your own licks and why and when to play them.Whether you're an intermediate-level player wanting to add chicken pickin' flavors to your jazz lines or a rocker interested in dressing up your licks with chromatic sophistication andhybrid picking techniques turn off the distortion switch to your brightest pickup and bring on the twang!

This course is designed to help beginning to intermediate guitarists learn to improvise fills and solos for country songs. You’ll learn to create your own lead licks using a major pentatonic scale then advance to a slightlymore complex approach.Hammer-ons pull-offs and slides will be added to increase the speed and smoothness of your lead playing. Finally you'll learn single and double string bends for that 'real Nashville sound.'

A Guide to Playing Modern & Traditional Electric Country Lead Guitar-This complete guide to playing modern and traditional electric country lead Guitar includes access to audio demo tracks online for download or streaming.Al Bonhomme's Country Guitar covers the topics: pentatonic and other scales string bending hybrid picking chicken pickin' flatpicking pickin' on the low strings steel Guitar double stops triad basics Banjo rolls open-string cascades cow jazz and intros and endings. Standard notation and tablature are both included.

The Early Blues Of Lightnin' Hopkins-In this second DVD lesson devoted to the guitar playing of Lightnin??? Hopkins Ernie Hawkins dives into Lightnin's early catalogue from the Aladdin and Gold Star record labels. There was an amazing variety to Lightnin's early work. Listening to his early recordings we hear an artist at his prime. He effortlessly employing widely different rhythms keys and tunings. The deeper we listen to these songs the deeper our insight into what a master of Texas blues Lightnin' Hopkins really was.Lightnin's style itself came along at the perfect time: the advent of the electric guitar. His style strong rhythms punctuated by his flowing but compact lead linescreated a stinging and heart-tearing evocative sound. Lightnin's guitar style and technique worked great for both the acoustic or electrical guitars. The blues of Freddy King Albert Collins the Vaughn brothers Billy Gibbons testify to the power of this style. Lightnin' connects the generations of players starting with Blind Lemon Jefferson for whom he was lead-boy in the early 1920s. Standing tall at the center of the Texas Blues story is Lightnin??? Hopkins.In this double DVD set Ernie Hawkins covers songs in unusual keys such as: drop D(Sugar Mama) in drop D but played in the key of A (Santa Fe Blues) in G (Bad Luck and Trouble) as well as in the usual blues in A Come Back Baby and the country gospel Needed Time in the key of E. As a bonus Ernie teaches his version of Lightnin's Hideway the Freddy King tune coming back home to Lightnin'.Ernie teaches phrase by phrase and then uses the split-screen so you can carefully study what each hand is doing. Detailed tab/music booklets are included as PDF files on both DVDs. 186 minutes ??? Level 2/3 ??? Detailed tab/music PDF files on the DVDs

Guitar Of Big Bill Broonzy. Big Bill Broonzy's recording career spanned from 1927 until his death in 1958. His repertoire was well recorded, from solos and duets to ensemble playing. He was rediscovered just as the "folk-revival" began in the early 1950's. Broonzy was a master of ragtime and country blues guitar whose playing was highlighted by a strong pulsating bass and melodic lead lines. In this comprehensive new audio lesson, Woody Mann explores the ideas, techniques, and styles of this legendary musician who has influenced generations of guitarists. Includes access to online audio containing three full hours of instruction featuring note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction. Selections include: House Rent Stomp: Brownskin Shuffle: Moppin' Blues: Hey, Hey: Worryin' You Off My Mind: Stove Pipe Stomp: and Saturday Night Rub. Written in standard notation and tablature.

Brouillage avec d'autres joueurs est une des choses plus amusants, stimulantes qu'un guitaristes peuvent faire. Mais, après que vous avez joué toutes vos licks mémorisés et solos, comment faites-vous votre propre ' si vous jouez rock, blues, country ou jazz, cet ouvrage enseigne vous comment à: solos de # Build avec des échelles # Ad lib solos axée sur la corde de mélodies # Embellish # Play harmonisées mélodie lignes # Leave la mélodie derrière et improvisent librement # Start en développant votre propre style ! / Guitare / 64 pages / Partition Cd

Four original instrumentals all in standard tuning and in different keys are taught in this lesson. These are multipart compositions that should challenge the intermediate to advanced fingerstyle guitarists. Stefan has brought together blues country and jazz ideas and themes to these solos.Bermuda Triangle Exit has three parts. It begins with a counterpoint section that then leads in to an alternating bass theme and resolves with an RandB fashioned third part. Beyond The Pleasure Dome (also known as Matesa) comes next. This is played in the key of C and brings together several country blues styles to a lyrical instrumental. The Way She Walks isvery much influenced by Stefan's many years living in England. He learnt the first section from Martin Carthy and then added two additional parts to round off the composition. Why A Duck is played in the key of F and was originally recorded as a duet with John Renbourn. Stefan's part stands well as a Guitar solo and opens up the fingerboard to a variety of interesting chord fingerings.A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. Each tune is taught phrase by phrase and played slowly on a split-screen.

Arrangements In Vestapol Tuning-'The Open D Tuning (D A D F# A D) also referred to as the Vestapol tuning is a powerful and evocative tuning that was widely used by guitarists in the 1920s to play country blues ballads rags and folk tunes. In this lesson I focus on arranging five of my favorite blues melodies in Vestapol plus an original instrumental.The religious tune When I Lay My Burden Down was in the repertoire of both Black and White traditional guitarists. I have arranged it in an Elizabeth Cotten/Mississippi John Hurt style. The beautiful blues Goin' To Germany was recorded by the Cannon's Jug Stompers in the 1920s. I have always wanted to find the right setting for this melodic countryblues and the Vestapol tuning gave me the feel and textures that I was looking for. Sam McGee played guitar behind Uncle Dave Macon when he recorded I've Got The Morning Blues in Vestapol. This is a fun tune to play and leads nicely in to Hesitation Blues a song recorded by many artists. My arrangement tries to combine a sliding jug sound with some funky blues licks. Peg Leg Howell's Skin Game Blues is a rare example of an early blues song with three distinct sections. Peg Leg played this with a bottleneck but for our arrangement we will rely on our fingers to make the notes sing out.We finish the lesson with Innocence Abroard. An original instrumental that ties together the right and left hand techniques we have studied.A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. Each tune is taught phrase by phrase and played slowly on a split-screen. Bonus audio tracks of the original 1920s recordings are included. These are the records I first heard that influenced me to rearrange the melodies to the Vestapol tuning.' Stefan Grossman

Par HARTWAY CHRIS. This book and accompanying audio provide instruction and playable examples for guitarists looking to get into the sounds rooted in classic country music, as well as more modern approaches to the genre. Rhythm playing is explored through shuffle patterns, travis picking and trucking riffs. Lead playing is approached through double stop licks, steel bends, and single note runs. Short examples are presented in each chapter and then combined in longer etudes with chord changes, ready for use in your own solos! This book and accompanying audio provide instruction and playable examples for guitarists looking to get into the sounds rooted in classic country music, as well as more modern approaches to the genre. Rhythm playing isexplored through shuffle patterns, travis picking and trucking riffs. Lead playing is approached through double stop licks, steel bends, and single note runs. Short examples are presented in each chapter and then combined inlonger etudes with chord changes, ready for use in your own solos./ Recueil / Guitare

Neck And Neck is the matching folio to the award-winning Album of the same name by Mark Knopfler and Chet Atkins.Knopfler is known for his lead Guitar and Vocals in English rock band Dire Straits. Atkins is the World-famous country guitarist and studio player.Neck And Neck contains all 10 songs from the album of the same name. Songs include There'll Be Some Changes Made Poor Boy Blues Yakety Axe and many others.

This book is a supplement to Any Guitar Method. Are you tired of playing the same licks over and over again? Or maybe you just don't know what to play during your solo? LEAD LICKS is a unique book designed to increase your improvising vocabulary by taking a short phrase or lick and 'morphing' it into differente styles! Rock Blues Jazz Country 'Outside' LEAD LICKS gives you a major minor and dominant 7th licks (12 of each!) -plus a special 'exotic' section. You'll have a lick for nearly any musical situation! Over 200 licks inall! The digiatal audio download includes each lick played at full speed and at a slower practice tempo!

This book and accompanying audio provide instruction and playable examples for guitarists looking to get into the sounds rooted in classic country music as well as more modern approaches to the genre.Rhythm playing isexplored through shuffle patterns travis picking and trucking riffs. Lead playing is approached through double stop licks steel bends and single note runs. Short examples are presented in each chapter and then combined inlonger etudes with chord changes ready for use in your own solos.