Country Guitar Styles
In this guitar lesson video course, you'll learn all kinds of techniques and concepts for both lead and rhythm that will help put the twang in your strangs. You'll also get an in-depth look at the styles of three of country's greatest pickers. Whether you're brand new to country guitar or already know some impressive licks, there's plenty here to inspire!
Videos
• Country Rhythm Guitar (09:27) - Get started with a primer of all things country rhythm, including cowboy chords, Carter Strumming, connecting bass runs, Travis picking, boom chucka rhythms, hybrid picking boogie riffs, and major/minor 3rd mixture.
• Country Lead Guitar (10:22) - Here, we'll take a look at the other side of country guitar: lead playing. Learn essential concepts like pentatonic scales, sliding scale forms, pre-bends, country composite scale, the "Lester Flatt run," chicken pickin', 6th intervals, adding open strings, pedal steel licks, banjo rolls, etc.
• Country Chicken Pickin' (09:09) - In this video, you'll dig deeper into the chicken pickin' technique and see how it can be applied to all kinds of licks. You'll also get tips on equipment and tone.
• Bluegrass Guitar (08:03) - Discover the fundamentals of bluegrass guitar in this video, including "boom chick" rhythm strums, the "Lester Flatt run," legato techniques, Doc Watson fills, Clarence White-style cross-picking, and Tony Rice-style flatpicking.
• Pedal Steel Licks (08:43) - With this video, you'll explore pedal steel licks in more detail, including trademark techniques like hybrid picking, oblique bends (adjacent and non-adjacent strings), 6th intervals, slides, first-finger bends, chordal bends, etc.
• Merle Travis Style (09:42) - Get a comprehensive look at one of the fathers of country guitar and one of the most influential players of all time, Merle Travis. You'll learn about using a thumbpick, bass-string muting, fret-hand thumb use, chord inversions, "boom-a-chick-a" pattern, banjo rolls, single-note lines, and more.
• Chet Atkins Style (14:26) - Here, you'll study the style of Mr. Guitar himself: Chet Atkins. Learn techniques like Travis picking with a thumbpick and two fingers, bass/chords/melody approach, palm-muting the bass strings, three-notes-per-string scales, p-m-i right-hand pattern, banjo rolls, and harp harmonics, to name a few.
• Brad Paisley Style (07:34) - To wrap up the course, take a look at the style of the multi-talented Brad Paisley. You'll learn chordal ornaments, arpeggio riffs, chord inversions, power-chord riffs, mixing fretted notes with open strings, chromatic approach notes, G-bender licks, scale sequences, and more.