Johnny Hiland - Chicken Pickin' Guitar

Meet one of Nashville’s true guitar stars as Johnny Hiland takes you through some key aspects of country playing. As well as chicken pickin’ he covers double-stops pedal steel licks pick-and-finger hybrid picking banjo rollsand lots more. He’s also joined by Roth Bill Holloman and Shannon Ford for some truly memorable band segments.

Techniques Rhythm & Soloing for Nashville-Style Guitar 2-DVD Set-Some call it country Guitar with a dash of rock blues and jazz. Others call it modern Nashville-style guitar. We call it 'Big Twang' and no one's better qualified to help you get a grip on the style than bonafide master twanger Joe Dalton. Players like Albert Lee Arlen Roth Danny Gatton Johnny Hiland Ray Flacke Leon McAuliffe Brent Mason Chet Atkins Scotty Anderson Red Volkaert James Burton and Jimmy Bryant all have their own classic Big Twang signature sound and technique. But today contemporary players across all styles have incorporated twang influences in their signature sounds.In this DVD you will work through a wide variety of rhythm and soloingparts across five distinct Big Twang grooves that Dalton has prepared to illustrate the diversity of the style. Key learnings include mastering the many different attacks required with the picking hand along with the essential 'touches' required from the fretting hand. As you work with the material Dalton will cover hybrid picking chicken-picking pull-offs hammer-ons double-stops pedal steel emulation ending slides pluck 'n cluck staccato and legato effects tips for crafting a good solo syncopation vibrato and tons of other tricks of the twang trade.