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Fingerstyle Guitar Inspired by Colter Wall

Lesson ID: A0191

In this guitar lesson, we’ll work on some bluesy country fingerstyle guitar that’s inspired the song “The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie” written by Colter Wall. First you’ll learn the main chord progression that we’ll use to practice this type of fingerstyle guitar, and then we’ll work through a nice fingerstyle intro riff and a short instrumental break. During most of this guitar lesson, we’ll use a thumb pick to play an alternating bass line while we use our pointer and middle fingers to play a treble melody line in between the alternating bass notes. Also, be sure to follow Colter Wall on YouTube and you can find more of Colter’s music on his website.

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Main Progression

Video 1 – Playthrough with Tablature

Video 2 – Full Breakdown

Intro Riff

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Short Instrumental

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Song Structure

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fransverboom
fransverboom(@fransverboomgmail-com)
3 years ago

Wow ! This sounds good Devin !

jerseychicadee
jerseychicadee(@jerseychicadee)
3 years ago

Owwwwwie that makes my pinky hurt! What doesn’t kill you…or at least play better. Lol

Last edited 3 years ago by jerseychicadee
C White
C White(@g)
3 years ago

Nice lesson Devin,
I like the Doc Watson style riffs mixed in there.
I haven’t used a thumb pick or done much travis picking yet.
Looks like it’s time to learn.

Cool song,
Thanks for sharing.

Padmapriya Dakini
3 years ago

Love this! This is exactly why CGO is a great learning tool. Its taken a bit of effort but it was worth it! Thanks and felicitations on the season… if you are into it!

Lyndon Taylor
Lyndon Taylor(@lyndon)
3 years ago

Great lesson, Devin. Might there be more fingerstyle tutorials in the future? Hope so!

sandro donda
sandro donda(@sandro-donda)
2 years ago

great Devin! this take some time to practice, but eventually i’m arrived to play all partsThanks!!

John Shryock
John Shryock(@sujo06)
2 years ago

love this song!! thanks for putting it on here… sounds great

graham.martin.au
graham.martin.au(@graham-martin-augmail-com)
1 year ago

Love this, more Colter Wall please.

SixStringSamurai
SixStringSamurai(@sixstringsamurai)
1 year ago

Looking forward to this one! This course is so well organized – takes away (most) of the intimidation after listening to Colter Wall play it. Thanks once again!