Lesson 9 – Bluegrass Guitar Solo Improvising Course
Lesson ID: A0163
This is part two of a mini lesson series on playing lead guitar in a country and bluegrass style. In part one, you learned how to play two guitar breaks for “Cripple Creek” using the song’s traditional melody. In this guitar lesson, you’ll learn eight extremely useful flatpicking guitar licks and I’ll show you three easy ways to use these flatpicking licks to spice up your country and bluegrass guitar solos. The concepts in this lead guitar lesson will help you improvise a hard-driving bluegrass guitar break over “Cripple Creek” and these concepts can also be applied to a ton of other country and bluegrass songs.
Overview
Using the Licks
Flatpicking Licks
| Video Start Time | Lesson Topic |
|---|---|
| 00:00 min | Bluegrass Lick 1 |
| 03:08 min | Practice Lick 1 with “Cripple Creek” |
| 06:19 min | Bluegrass Lick 2 |
| 09:11 min | Practice Lick 2 with “Cripple Creek” |
| 10:53 min | Bluegrass Lick 3 |
| 13:12 min | Practice Lick 3 with “Cripple Creek” |
| 14:35 min | Bluegrass Lick 4 |
| 16:57 min | Practice Lick 4 with “Cripple Creek” |
| 17:48 min | Bluegrass Lick 5 |
| 20:11 min | Practice Lick 5 with “Cripple Creek” |
| 20:53 min | Bluegrass Lick 6 |
| 24:23 min | Bluegrass Lick 7 |
| 28:37 min | Bluegrass Lick 8 |
| 30:57 min | Extra Tips for Using Bluegrass Licks |
I like the idea….great job Devin!
So helpful Devin! This is just what I am needing!!
Awesome lesson
I finished the Bluegrass improvising course where should I go from here to get better at it and get to the next step , and thanks I really enjoyed it
Nice! Glad you enjoyed it. I’ll be adding on more lessons to this course later, but for now, I might recommend applying some of the improvising ideas with some of the song lessons on the site… maybe Worried Blues, Salt Creek, Bill Cheatham, Gold Rush, Nine Pound Hammer, Deep Elem Blues… just naming a few. You might also want to start adding more licks to your “bag of licks” with the Bluegrass Lick Library https://countryguitaronline.com/bluegrass-guitar-licks/ studying how each lick uses the scales — scale charts below the lick videos. Get down the key of G really well and then I’ll… Read more »
Absolut klasse!
Vielen Dank Devin!!!
I am very pleased with the options and the way this is presented
Thanks David!
when is Lesson 10 coming?