Ever wondered what makes a strumming pattern sound country? In this lesson video I’ll show you! We’ll go over several common country strumming patterns and I’ll teach you some awesome techniques to spice up your country rhythm guitar playing. These techniques will work with just about every country song you hear on the radio! If you like this lesson, you might also like our Classic Country Strumming Course.
Brand new to guitar and wanting to learn how to play country music? You’re in the right place! In this guitar lesson, you’ll learn the four most common guitar chords used in country music. If you know these four chords, you’ll be able to play a ton of the songs you hear on the radio. We’ll also go over some good chord progressions that you can use to practice your left hand chord changes.
Chord Progression 1
G – C – D – G
Chord Progression 2
G – C – Em – C
Chord Progression 3
Em – G – C – G – Em – G – D
Chord Progression 4
G – D – C – G – Em – D – C
Chord Progression 5
G – C – G – Em – G – D
Chord Progression 6
G – C – G – C – G – D
In this lesson we’re going to go over an awesome Lynyrd Skynyrd style blues progression that involves hybrid picking. If you’re new to hybrid picking, you might also want to check out my hybrid picking lesson series. In this particular lesson, we’ll focus on using the pick, middle finger, and ring finger.
Once you master this style, it’s really fun to use at a jam sessions. For example, when you’re playing the twelve bar blues at a jam, trading lead back and forth, you can use this hybrid picking style when it’s your turn to play the rhythm part. It always sounds great when you can start out strumming during one section of a song, then switch to a hybrid picking style during another section. This adds some variation that makes your music sound much more interesting to your listeners.
In this guitar lesson, you’ll learn a basic 12 bar blues progression. The 12 bar blues is the format of most blues songs and it’ll come in very handy when you’re jamming with friends because you’ll be able to take turns playing this progression and trading lead back and forth.