In this guitar lesson video, I’ll teach you one of my favorite country & bluegrass guitar licks that sounds great on acoustic guitar. First I’ll play through the lick a couple times, then one time slowly with the tablature, and then I’ll break it down measure by measure. I’ll also show you how to play the rhythm guitar part that you heard me play at the beginning of the video and we’ll get some practice playing this G lick as a fill riff with rhythm.
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.
| 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) |
The classic “G run” is the most important part of bluegrass guitar. Learning different variations of the G run will improve your soloing and backup rhythm guitar. In this guitar lesson, we’ll work through ten different examples of how to play the standard bluegrass G run on guitar. All of the bluegrass G run examples in this lesson come with tablature. The first G run we’ll cover is the most common G run that guitar players use at bluegrass jams. We’ll also look at different signature G runs used by the great bluegrass pickers over the years — Del McCoury, Tony Rice, Norman Blake, and Doc Watson. Later in this bluegrass guitar lesson, we’ll get some practice using G runs with the chord progression to “Will the Circle be Unbroken” .
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.
| 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 |
