In this guitar lesson, you’ll learn three easy fill riffs that you can use to spice up your country & bluegrass rhythm guitar. Each fill riff is one measure long and you can use them in almost any chord progression in the key of G to replace one measure of strumming. These riffs sound especially great over slower country & bluegrass songs.
Chord Embellishments
Outlaw Country Drop D Riffs and Strumming
In this guitar lesson, you’ll learn a few country guitar riffs in the style of Charlie Daniels. We’ll also use the chord progressions from “Long Haired Country Boy” by Charlie Daniels to practice some country strumming patterns and chord embellishments. Overall, this is a great lesson for developing that outlaw country sound on acoustic guitar.
Important Note: Everything that we cover in this lesson will be in Drop D Tuning D-A-D-G-B-E.
Video Start Time | Lesson Topic |
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00:00 min | Measures 1 through 4 |
04:06 min | Measures 5 through 8 |
06:55 min | Play Entire Riff – Measures 1 through 8 |
Country Series Low Tension / Acoustic Guitar Strings
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How to Play Happy Birthday on Guitar
In this guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play “Happy Birthday” on guitar. This bday arrangement combines picking and strumming, and it has a little bit of a country feel to it. You can download the Happy Birthday Tablature below the lesson video for free. Thanks for watching!
Easy Flatpicking Intro – Grateful Dead
In this guitar lesson, we’ll take a look at some simple rhythm and lead from the song “Ripple” by Grateful Dead. First, we’ll work through two basic chord progressions in G and we’ll add some vocals for those of y’all wanting to sing with this song. Then, in the second half of this lesson, you’ll learn a nice guitar intro that mixes the melody of “Ripple” with country & bluegrass strumming.
Video 1 – Playthrough with Tablature – Flatpicking Intro
Video 2 – Full Breakdown – Flatpicking Intro
Video Start Time | Lesson Topic |
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00:00 min | Measures 1 through 4 |
04:16 min | Measures 5 through 8 |
07:49 min | Measures 9 through 12 |