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Best Bluegrass Flatpicking Techniques

April 13, 2025February 7, 2016 by Devin

Lesson ID: A0057

It’s amazing how fast flatpickers Tony Rice, Bryan Sutton, David Grisham, and Dan Tyminski can pick on the guitar. If you’re anything like me, you’re always trying to pick faster and with more precision to keep up with these legends. In this lesson, we’ll go over some must-know bluegrass flatpicking techniques that will really help you increase your speed and improve your accuracy! If you like this lesson, you might also like our Bluegrass Lick Library.

Video Start Time	Lesson Topic
00:00 min	Lesson Overview
00:33 min	Pick Direction for Building Speed
02:24 min	Your Choice of Guitar Pick
03:19 min	Two Important Pick Angles
05:31 min	Relax Your Wrist but Play with a Heavy Hand

Beginner Bluegrass Rhythm Guitar

April 13, 2025November 14, 2015 by Devin

Lesson ID: A0038

Bluegrass rhythm guitar is one of the most important parts of a bluegrass band. Since there typically aren’t drums in a bluegrass band, the rhythm guitar player sets the pace instead. In this lesson we’ll go over several important bluegrass rhythm guitar techniques that you need to know. This lesson is geared towards beginners but there’s some good stuff for all skill levels.

Video Start Time	Lesson Topic
00:00 min	Lesson Overview
00:57 min	Drums of the Bluegrass Band
01:41 min	Basic Boom Chick Pattern
02:30 min	Chord Progression Example
05:44 min	Turnaround Riff
08:12 min	Rhythm Hammer-Ons
09:42 min	Filler Riff Between the G and C Chords
10:30 min	G Lick Ending

How To Play Lead Guitar Using the Pentatonic Scales

April 13, 2025November 14, 2015 by Devin

Lesson ID: A0007

In this guitar lesson, we’ll go over how you can go about playing lead guitar using the pentatonic scales. Once you learn the pentatonic scales in one key, you’ve learned them in all keys because the scales are movable. You’ll be able to play lead guitar all the way up and down the neck of the guitar without getting lost on the fretboard. The pentatonic scales can be used to solo over the majority of country songs you hear on the radio.