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Texas Swing Chord Progression on Guitar

April 11, 2025August 3, 2021 by Devin

Lesson ID: A0199

In this guitar lesson, you’ll learn a jazzy Texas swing rhythm guitar progression. First we’ll take a look at a must-learn Texas swing strumming pattern. Then we’ll work through a practice progression in the style of “Two-Step Down to Texas” by Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram, and Jon Randall. Overall this is a great lesson for working on jazzy chord shapes and Texas swing rhythm guitar.

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Video Start Time	Lesson Topic
00:00 min	G6 Chord Shape
02:45 min	Texas Swing Strumming Pattern
05:54 min	Measures 1 through 4 (Guitar Intro)
08:12 min	Measures 5 through 8 (Guitar Intro)
14:14 min	Practice Along – Guitar Intro
15:09 min	Measures 9 through 12 (Main Progression)

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**Capo 2nd fret to practice along with this video

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Fishin’ Creek Blues

April 11, 2025June 19, 2021 by Devin

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Lesson ID: A0198

In this guitar lesson, we’ll take a look at a flatpicking arrangement in the style of “Fishin’ Creek Blues” by Dan Crary. As you learn this tune, you’ll see how Dan Crary uses some unusual note combinations in his flatpicking. Try to commit some of his licks to memory and use them when you’re improvising over other songs in the key of D. Overall this is a great lesson for working on pick control and letting notes ring out to create nice overtones that will smooth out your playing.

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Video Start Time	Lesson Topic
00:00 min	Measures 1 through 5
04:34 min	Measures 6 through 9
08:27 min	Measures 10 through 13

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Flatpicking in the Style of Norman Blake

April 11, 2025January 13, 2021 by Devin

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Lesson ID: A0193

In this guitar lesson, we’ll work on some Norman Blake style flatpicking using a progression that we’ll borrow from Norman’s song “Randall Collins.” In the first part of this lesson, you’ll learn a nice flatpicking break that goes along with the song’s melody, and later in the lesson, we’ll work on the rhythm guitar part. Guitar tablature is available for download below the lesson video.

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Flatpicking Solo Breakdown

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“Walk On Boy” in the Style of Doc Watson

April 11, 2025December 4, 2020 by Devin

Lesson ID: A0192

In this guitar lesson, we’ll work through a progression from the classic song “Walk On Boy.” The original version of this song was written by Mel Tillis and Wayne Walker. The flatpicking arrangement that you’ll learn in this lesson is similar to “Walk On Boy” as it was performed by Doc Watson. After we work on the main flatpicking guitar break, we’ll take a closer look at this song’s rhythm guitar part including the chord progression and vocals.

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Capo 2nd fret to practice along with Doc Watson.

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