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Makin’ Your Rhythm Guitar Country with Hybrid Picking

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Lesson 1 – Hybrid Picking Rhythm Course
Lesson ID: A0121

This is the first guitar lesson in a series of videos where we’ll be showing y’all how to make your rhythm guitar sound country with hybrid picking. In this lesson, I’ll teach you a really useful hybrid picking pattern that can be applied to a ton of different country songs. This pattern will help get you comfortable using your pick in combination with the middle and ring fingers of your right hand. As we progress through this course, we’ll increase the hybrid picking difficulty and we’ll take a look at several different patterns that sound great in country, bluegrass, and folk music.

Video Start TimeLesson Topic
00:00 minHybrid Picking Overview
02:38 minHybrid Picking Pattern over G Chord
06:44 minHybrid Picking Pattern over C Chord
07:48 minHybrid Picking Pattern over D Chord
08:48 minHybrid Picking Pattern to Use When You’re Singing
10:41 minPractice Progression
12:30 minYour Homework and Lesson Recap

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I’ll Fly Away in the Style of Alan Jackson

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Lesson ID: A0119

In this lesson, I’ll teach you how play the traditional gospel song “I’ll Fly Away” in the style of Alan Jackson. First we’ll go over the chord progressions and a few strumming patterns you can play behind your vocals. Then I’ll teach you two variations of the instrumental break — the first instrumental break will mix a nice melody line with strumming and the second instrumental break will be loaded with some awesome bluegrass flatpicking licks. Chords and lyrics along with tablature can be downloaded below the video!

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Lyrics

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Strumming

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Basic Instrumental

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Bluegrass Solo

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Backing Track

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12 Bar Blues with Six Turnaround Riffs in E

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Lesson ID: A0118

Understanding blues guitar can really improve your country and bluegrass guitar playing. In this guitar lesson, we’ll teach you the most common way to play the 12 bar blues and then we’ll go over six awesome blues turnaround riffs that will turn some heads at your next jam session.

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Rhythm Progression

Blues Turnarounds

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