Lesson 8 – Bluegrass Guitar Solo Improvising Course
Lesson ID: A0162
This is Part One of a two-part lesson series where we’ll work on lead guitar improvising in a country & bluegrass style. In this guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play two guitar breaks for “Cripple Creek” using the song’s traditional melody.
Then, in the Part Two of this “Cripple Creek” lesson series (coming soon), I’ll show you several different ways that you can use bluegrass guitar licks and crosspicking to modify the traditional melody to make your guitar solo breaks sound more interesting. Both of the guitar lessons in this two-part series will help you add that hard-driving bluegrass sound to your bluegrass guitar breaks.
Overview
Melody 1
Video 1 – Playthrough with Tablature
Video 2 – Full Breakdown
| Video Start Time | Lesson Topic |
|---|---|
| 00:00 min | Breakdown – Measures 1 through 5 |
| 05:35 min | Breakdown – Measures 6 through 9 |
| 07:31 min | Recap – A Part |
| 08:12 min | Breakdown – Measures 10 through 13 |
| 11:09 min | Breakdown – Measures 14 through 17 |
| 12:05 min | Practice the Entire Break with Me |
| 13:46 min | Your Homework |
Melody 2
Video 1 – Playthrough with Tablature
Video 2 – Full Breakdown
| Video Start Time | Lesson Topic |
|---|---|
| 00:00 min | Listen to the Entire Break |
| 00:50 min | Breakdown – Measures 1 through 5 |
| 05:30 min | Breakdown – Measures 6 through 9 | 08:02 min | Breakdown – Measures 10 through 13 |
| 10:44 min | Breakdown – Measures 14 through 17 |
| 12:44 min | Practice the Entire Break with Me |
| 14:53 min | Backing Track Practice Tip |
New guitar lesson! Part 1 (this lesson post) – we’ll learn two guitar traditional breaks for “Cripple Creek”…I’ll be posting Part 2 of this mini series soon. Part 2 should be really helpful for improvising hard-driving bluegrass guitar solos. I’ll show you some of my favorite ways to use bluegrass licks in guitar breaks and we’ll add some nice bluegrass crosspicking to these “Cripple Creek” melodies.
I’ll try to be on the live chat this week as much as I can so let me know if you have any questions! – Devin
Cripple creek is a happy folk tune and had fun learning both octaves in the open G position, enjoyed!
Great lesson Devin! Looking forward to the second part with the licks and crosspicking. Happy Holidays!
Learning a lot in this course. THanks! Keep up the great work.
Another good one, thanks Devin!
Hi Devin… What a way to start a Monday morning. Thank you, Sir!
Beatiful. The Collings does it justice too!
I sure agree with you Devin, I really do think it is awesome learning the roots for basic soloing too, enjoying this now!