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Guitar Resources
Helpful charts, music theory guides, guitar techniques, and practice tools for country and bluegrass guitar. Pick a category below or jump straight to the resource you’re looking for.
Guitar Scales
Scale charts for country, bluegrass and lead guitar.
Minor Pentatonic Scales
Five-position scale charts in every key.
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Major Pentatonic Scales
Essential shapes for country and bluegrass lead.
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Major Scales
Major scale positions across the fretboard.
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Blues Scales
Add blues notes and extra color to your solos.
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Hybrid Country Scales
Combine major and blues sounds for country twang.
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Open Position Scales
Useful scale patterns near the guitar nut.
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Bluegrass G Licks Chart
Notes commonly used in open-position bluegrass licks.
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Mixolydian Scales
Major-scale sound with the rootsy flat-7 flavor.
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Guitar Chords
Chord charts and references for rhythm guitar and jamming.
Open Chords
Essential open-position country and bluegrass chords.
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Bar Chords
Movable chord shapes for playing across the neck.
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Slash Chords
Useful bass-note variations and smooth transitions.
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Major Key Chords
See which chords belong together in every major key.
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Minor Key Chords
Chord relationships for common minor keys.
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Chord Numbering System
Understand I-IV-V and other common progressions.
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Misc Theory & Technique
Straightforward guides to help make sense of the fretboard.
The CAGED System
Connect chord shapes and visualize the fretboard.
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How to Read Tablature
Learn TAB symbols, fret numbers and picking notation.
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What Is Flatpicking?
An introduction to traditional flatpick guitar playing.
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Crosspicking
Learn forward and backward bluegrass picking rolls.
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Triplets
Understand and practice three-note rhythmic groupings.
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Time Signatures
Learn how common musical time signatures work.
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Alternate Tunings
Explore useful guitar tunings beyond standard tuning.
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Tools
Handy tools for your practice sessions.
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