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12 Bar Blues in the Style of Merle Haggard

April 11, 2025May 20, 2020 by Devin

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Lesson ID: A0181

In this guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a 12 bar blues progression in the style of Merle Haggard. This is a progression that we’re borrowing from the old classic song “Blues Stay Away From Me” originally recorded by The Delmore Brothers. First, we’ll work through the main progression on guitar and then we’ll add some singing to it. After that, we’ll go over an easy country strumming pattern that you can use to play this entire song with cowboy chords. Finally, you’ll learn a bluesy guitar riff that you can play as a song ending and you’ll learn an easy riff that you can play at the beginning of the song.

Overview

Main Progression

Video 1 – Playthrough with Tablature

Video 2 – Full Breakdown

Video Start Time	Lesson Topic
00:00 min	Measures 1 through 4
02:16 min	What is a triplet?
04:00 min	Adding Staccato
05:43 min	Measures 5 through 8
09:03 min	Measures 9 through 12
14:13 min	Practice the Progression With Me
15:55 min	Let’s Add Some Vocals

Easier Strumming

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Ending Riff

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Intro Riff

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Backing Track

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12 Bar Blues Tablature Woodtone Strings

Tony Rice Style “G Lick” to Play Over C Chord

April 11, 2025April 5, 2020 by Devin

Lesson ID: A0183

In this guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play an easy country and bluegrass guitar lick that sounds great over the C major chord when you’re soloing in the key of G. Then we’ll practice using the lick in a guitar solo over a 12 bar chord progression. As we’re working through the guitar solo, you’ll learn how to use bluegrass licks effectively to play powerful solos that follow a song’s chord progression. Later in the lesson, we’ll also talk about the guitar scales for playing country and bluegrass guitar solos and we’ll go over some easy improvising techniques. After you watch the lesson, practice your guitar solo improvising using the three bluegrass backing tracks in the key of G that you’ll find on this guitar lesson post.

Guitar Lesson

Video Start Time	Lesson Topic
00:00 min	Lesson Overview
00:52 min	Learn a Key of G Lick to Play Over the C Chord
02:54 min	How to Use This Lick in a 12 Bar Guitar Solo
04:56 min	Stock Bluegrass Licks in the Guitar Lick Library
07:17 min	Work Through the 12 Bar Progression
08:11 min	Bluegrass Licks to Use Over C Chord and D Chord
09:38 min	Guitar Solo Example
10:58 min	Guitar Scales for Playing Country & Bluegrass Solos
11:17 min	G Major Scale and How to Use It
13:54 min	Make the Major Scale Sound Country with the Flat 3rd
16:11 min	G Blues Scale and How to Use It

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Medium Backing Track

Fast Backing Track

Scale Charts

G Major Scale

G Blues Scale

Practice Solo Tablature Scale Charts Woodtone Strings

Red Dirt Country Strumming in the Style of Tyler Childers

April 11, 2025November 15, 2019 by Devin

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Lesson ID: A0176

In this guitar lesson, we’ll work on some red dirt country strumming in this style of Tyler Childers. First you’ll learn a country strumming pattern that is modeled after the strumming pattern Tyler Childers uses in his song “Whitehouse Road”. Then we’ll practice this strumming pattern over a couple chord progressions in drop D tuning with our capo on the second fret. After we practice the strumming pattern a bit, we’ll add some chord embellishments to our strumming to give it a nice red dirt country sound. Later in the lesson we’ll also work through an intro riff in the style of Tyler Childers. Overall this is a great lesson for learning some useful drop D chord embellishments that will spice up your country rhythm guitar. Please support Tyler Childers on iTunes and check out more of his songs on his YouTube Channel.

Overview

Strumming & Chords

Chord Embellishments

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Intro Riff

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Playthrough

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The Best “G Lick” to Play Over a D Chord

April 11, 2025September 27, 2019 by Devin

Lesson ID: FL0003

In this guitar lesson, you’ll learn one of the best country and bluegrass guitar licks to play over a D major chord when you have a song in the key of G. The guitar lick we’re working on today sounds best when you play it over two measures of D major chord followed by two measures of G major chord. You’ll be able to use this guitar lick all the time because this four measure chord grouping (D/D/G/G) is extremely common in country and bluegrass chord progressions.

After you learn how to play the guitar lick, I’ll show you how to use the guitar lick, and then we’ll play the lick in a simple country and bluegrass guitar solo. Near the end of this lesson, you can practice the guitar solo while I play the rhythm guitar chord progression at a couple different speeds.

Video Start Time	Lesson Topic
00:00 min	Lesson Overview
01:36 min	Play Through Lick Slowly with Tablature
03:01 min	Full Breakdown (Measure 1 over D Chord)
04:32 min	Full Breakdown (Measure 2 over D Chord)
06:06 min	Using the Two Measure Lick Over a D Chord
06:36 min	Full Breakdown (Measure 3 over G Chord)
07:39 min	Full Breakdown (Measure 4 over G Chord)
09:10 min	Learn the Practice Guitar Solo
14:04 min	Practice the Solo with Me
14:59 min	Rhythm Backing Track (Slower Speed)
16:32 min	Rhythm Backing Track (Faster Speed)
17:44 min	Thanks for watching!

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