Build-a-Break Flatpicking Guitar Licks for Cripple Creek

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.

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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

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Jocelyn(@jocelyn)

5 years ago

#4016087

I like the idea….great job Devin!

Gary (@guest_4016140)

#4016140

So helpful Devin! This is just what I am needing!!

Mark (@guest_4016258)

#4016258

Awesome lesson

James(@toottootcomcast-net)

4 years ago

#11033615

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

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Devin(@devin)

#11033619

Reply to James

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 »

Helmut(@helmut)

3 years ago

#15071996

Absolut klasse!

#15072088

Vielen Dank Devin!!!

David Noble(@dnoble)

11 months ago

#15095344

I am very pleased with the options and the way this is presented

#15095345

Reply to David Noble

Thanks David!

Chris Clemenson(@chrisclemcountry)

9 months ago

#15095365

when is Lesson 10 coming?