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Best Bluegrass Flatpicking Techniques

April 13, 2025February 7, 2016 by Devin

Lesson ID: A0057

It’s amazing how fast flatpickers Tony Rice, Bryan Sutton, David Grisham, and Dan Tyminski can pick on the guitar. If you’re anything like me, you’re always trying to pick faster and with more precision to keep up with these legends. In this lesson, we’ll go over some must-know bluegrass flatpicking techniques that will really help you increase your speed and improve your accuracy! If you like this lesson, you might also like our Bluegrass Lick Library.

Video Start Time	Lesson Topic
00:00 min	Lesson Overview
00:33 min	Pick Direction for Building Speed
02:24 min	Your Choice of Guitar Pick
03:19 min	Two Important Pick Angles
05:31 min	Relax Your Wrist but Play with a Heavy Hand

2nd Position G Minor Pentatonic Licks

April 13, 2025January 27, 2016 by Devin

2nd position minor pentatonic scale country lick

Lesson ID: A0056

We’ve already covered several licks within the 1st position of the G Minor pentatonic scale. In the lesson videos below, we’ll be moving up the guitar neck to learn some licks built around the 2nd position of the G Minor pentatonic scale. The solo in the beginning of this video is an example of how you can combine each of these minor pentatonic scale licks to create one long guitar solo.

Guitar Lick 1

Guitar Lick 2

Guitar Lick 3

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Tuning Your Guitar by Ear

April 13, 2025January 18, 2016 by Devin

how to tune your guitar country guitar lesson

Lesson ID: A0054

In this video I’ll show you my favorite guitar tuner and you’ll learn a couple easy ways to tune your guitar by ear so you’re always able to tune a guitar when you don’t have a tuner nearby.

Video Start Time	Lesson Topic
00:00 min	Lesson Overview
00:28 min	My Favorite Clip-On Tuner
01:02 min	Standard Open Tuning – EADGBE
01:46 min	Flat or Sharp
02:16 min	Always Tune Up to the Proper Pitch and Not Down
03:07 min	Tuning by Ear – 5th Fret Method
06:01 min	Matching the Pitch of Two Strings
07:19 min	Harmonic Tuning Method

Bryan Sutton Style Sweep Picking

April 13, 2025January 10, 2016 by Devin

Lesson ID: A0053

Bryan Sutton is definitely one of the best flatpickers alive today. He plays with a uniquely smooth tone even when he’s picking super fast, and one of the ways he does this is with sweep picking. In this lesson we’ll go over an awesome bluegrass sweep picking lick that Bryan Sutton uses regularly in his flatpicking.

Lesson Video

Guitar Tablature