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Country Strumming & Fills Style of Merle Haggard

April 13, 2025July 24, 2017 by Devin

Lesson 8 – Country & Bluegrass Rhythm Course

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Lesson ID: A0129

In this guitar lesson, I’ll teach you a classic country strumming pattern and we’ll practice strumming over a chord progression in the style of “Today I Started Loving You Again” by Merle Haggard. I’ll also show you four fills that’ll make your rhythm guitar sound even more country. After you master the strumming and fills, practice them over the jam track. Tablature is available to Gold Pick members below the lesson video.

Overview

Strumming Pattern

Progression and Fill Riff

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Bonus Fills

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Backing Track

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Country & Bluegrass Rhythm Fill Riffs in D

April 13, 2025June 6, 2017 by Devin

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Lesson 11 – Rhythm Fill Riffs and Lead Guitar Course

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Lesson ID: A0127

In this guitar lesson, we’ll take a look at how to play country and bluegrass rhythm fill riffs in the key of D. I’ll teach you six of my favorite fill riffs in the key of D and we’ll practice them with a nice country and bluegrass rhythm progression. We’ll also talk about the guitar scales we’re using here in the key of D to get this country and bluegrass sound. Download the practice progression tablature below the video.

Lesson Overview

Fill Riffs

Video Start Time	Lesson Topic
00:00 min	Progression Overview
01:21 min	Fill Riff 1
03:31 min	Fill Riff 2
05:33 min	Fill Riff 3
08:38 min	Fill Riff 4
10:58 min	Fill Riff 5
12:48 min	Fill Riff 6
15:27 min	Country & Bluegrass Strumming Technique

Guitar Scales

Practice Progression

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Bluegrass Guitar Solo over Song by The Grascals

April 13, 2025May 1, 2017 by Devin

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Lesson 4 – Bluegrass Guitar Solo Improvising Course

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Lesson ID: A0124

In this guitar lesson, you’ll learn two full-length guitar solos over a common bluegrass chord progression. The first guitar solo is a basic solo with a nice melody that will push your pick control to the next level. The second guitar solo is slightly more advanced and loaded with some awesome bluegrass licks. Throughout the lesson, we’ll also talk about how guitar scales are used to create each of these solos. After you master the solos, practice them over the instrumental break in the song “Where I Come From” by the Grascals.

Lesson Overview

Bluegrass Scales

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Basic Guitar Solo

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Advanced Guitar Solo

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Practice

Practice with The Grascals

Try to play these two bluegrass solos over the song “Where I Come From” by The Grascals using the embedded player from Spotify. A nice instrumental break starts around 1:17 in this song. 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. Also, check out The Grascals on iTunes. They’ve got a ton of other great songs to choose from.

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12 Bar Blues with Six Turnaround Riffs in E

April 13, 2025March 17, 2017 by Devin

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Lesson ID: A0118

Understanding blues guitar can really improve your country and bluegrass guitar playing. In this guitar lesson, we’ll teach you the most common way to play the 12 bar blues and then we’ll go over six awesome blues turnaround riffs that will turn some heads at your next jam session.

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Rhythm Progression

Blues Turnarounds

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