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Sunny Side of the Mountain Flatpicking Guitar Solo

April 11, 2025December 5, 2019 by Devin

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Lesson ID: A0177

In this guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a country and bluegrass flatpicking guitar solo that you can practice over a chord progression from the old classic song “Sunny Side of the Mountain” by Harry C. McAuliffe and Bobby Gregory. “Sunny Side of the Mountain” was first recorded by Hank Snow and it has been recorded by several other country and bluegrass artists over the years. “Sunny Side of the Mountain” is also a really popular song to play at bluegrass jams.

The guitar solo that we’re learning today is challenging but it is doable for newer pickers if you slow it down a bit. Overall, this solo has a really nice melody and it is loaded with some hot bluegrass licks that will help improve your flatpicking accuracy and speed.

Overview

Playthrough with Tablature

Full Breakdown

Video Start Time	Lesson Topic
00:00 min	Measures 1 through 5
08:49 min	Measures 6 through 9
14:08 min	Measures 10 through 13
18:01 min	Practice the First Half of the Solo
19:22 min	Measures 14 through 17
24:44 min	Measures 18 through 21
30:20 min	Measures 22 through 25
34:38 min	Practice the Second Half of the Solo

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How to Play a Solo in C for Bluegrass and Country

April 11, 2025August 14, 2019 by Devin

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Lesson ID: A0175

In this guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a country and bluegrass guitar solo in C. First we’ll play through the guitar solo at a slow pace with tablature on the screen. Then we’ll break down the entire solo line by line and we’ll cover some helpful techniques for improvising solos in C. After you learn the guitar solo arrangement, practice along with the country & bluegrass backing track in the key of C.

Overview

Playthrough with Tablature

Full Breakdown

Video Start Time	Lesson Topic
00:00 min	Measures 1 through 4 and Soloing Tips
08:30 min	Measures 5 through 8
14:26 min	Measures 9 through 12 (Available to CGO Members)
20:00 min	Measures 13 through 16 (Available to CGO Members)
26:08 min	Practice the Solo With Me (Available to CGO Members)

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Hank Williams Style Strumming and Lead

April 11, 2025July 26, 2019 by Devin

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Lesson 18 – Rhythm Fill Riffs and Lead Guitar Course

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Lesson ID: A0155

In this guitar lesson, you’ll learn three country strumming patterns that work great for classic country. Then we’ll practice the country strumming patterns over a couple of chord progressions in the style of the old classic song “Your Cheatin’ Heart” by Hank Williams. After we work through the rhythm guitar parts, we’ll switch gears and I’ll teach you a simple classic country guitar solo that you can play along with “Your Cheatin’ Heart”. Overall this is a great lesson for classic country strumming and lead guitar.

Lesson Overview

Strumming & Chords

Guitar Solo

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Video 2 – Full Breakdown

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Practice with Hank Williams

Practice this lesson’s strumming patterns and solo over the song “Your Cheatin’ Heart” by Hank Williams using the embedded player from Spotify. We’d highly recommend using Spotify for online radio. If you don’t have a Spotify account, click here to sign up free with your Facebook account or with an e-mail address.

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Black Mountain Rag

April 13, 2025July 25, 2019 by Devin

Lesson ID: A0173

In this guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play the traditional fiddle tune “Black Mountain Rag” in the style of Doc Watson. This is one of the most common songs that you’ll hear at bluegrass jams. In this lesson, we’re going to learn the old way of playing this song which includes four different parts — the A Part, B Part, C Part, and D Part. Sometimes you’ll hear people playing this song without the C Part that you’ll learn in this lesson. Also, we’ll learn this song in the key of C without a capo but a lot of times people will capo 2nd fret to play this melody in the key of D. After you learn the guitar arrangement and optional ending lick, practice your bluegrass flatpicking with our “Black Mountain Rag” backing track in the key of C.

Overview

Flatpicking Arrangement

Video 1 – Playthrough with Tablature

Video 2 – Full Breakdown

Video Start Time	Lesson Topic
00:00 min	A Part – Measures 1 through 5
07:05 min	A Part – Measures 6 through 9
10:10 min	A Part – Practice with Me
11:08 min	B Part – Measures 10 through 13
17:16 min	B Part – Measures 14 through 17 (Available to CGO Members)
20:36 min	B Part – Practice with Me (Available to CGO Members)
21:51 min	C Part – Measures 18 through 21 (Available to CGO Members)
24:47 min	C Part – Measures 22 through 25 (Available to CGO Members)
25:34 min	D Part – Measures 26 through 29 (Available to CGO Members)
29:35 min	D Part – Measures 30 through 33 (Available to CGO Members)
33:07 min	D Part – Measures 34 through 37 (Available to CGO Members)
37:45 min	D Part – Measures 38 through 41 (Available to CGO Members)
41:27 min	D Part – Practice with Me (Available to CGO Members)
43:11 min	Practice the Entire Arrangement with Me (Available to CGO Members)

Optional Ending

Video 1 – Playthrough with Tablature

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