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12 Bar Blues with a Country Twang

November 22, 2025March 13, 2018 by Devin

Lesson 16 – Rhythm Fill Riffs and Lead Guitar Course

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Lesson ID: A0148

In this country guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a variation of the 12 bar blues that has a country & bluegrass twang. In both arrangements below, we’ll use triplets to spice up our country fills and we’ll also replace strumming with crosspicking in certain measures to make our rhythm sound even more country. These country 12 bar blues progressions are in the key of G and you can use the fill riffs that we’re studying in this guitar lesson with a bunch of other country & bluegrass songs. Pay close attention to how we’re structuring each country guitar lick around the rhythm chords.

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Playthrough with Tablature

Video 1 – First Round Playthrough

Video 2 – Second Round Playthrough

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Full Breakdown

Video 1 – First Round Breakdown

Video 2 – Second Round Breakdown

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Bluegrass Guitar Lick Library

April 13, 2025December 4, 2017 by Devin

Lesson ID: A0142

In this video, I’ll show you how to use our brand new Advanced Bluegrass Guitar Lick Library and I’ll also teach you one of my favorite bluegrass guitar licks in G. We’ll be adding new guitar licks to the bluegrass lick library all the time! The licks will cover several different keys and locations on the guitar neck. Later, we’ll post some really useful licks in the style of famous bluegrass guitar pickers like Tony Rice, Doc Watson, Bryan Sutton, Chris Eldridge, Norman Blake, David Grier, Clarence White, Dan Crary, and more!

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Big Sciota

April 13, 2025October 1, 2017 by Devin

Lesson ID: A0137

In this guitar lesson, I’ll teach you how to play “Big Sciota“, a traditional song credited to Burl Hammons. This song is named after a 231-mile stretch of river in Ohio that was very important to many Native American cultures. It is believed that Ritchie Stearns was the first to attach words to the tune, and much later, “Big Sciota” was made more popular by Old Crow Medicine Show.

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Playthrough with Tablature

Chord Progression

Video Start Time	Lesson Topic
00:00 min	Rhythm Overview
01:03 min	“Big Sciota” Chord Progression
03:21 min	Playthrough with Tablature
05:50 min	Helpful Chord Transition Tips

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Wabash Cannonball

April 13, 2025June 30, 2017 by Devin

Lesson ID: A0125

“Wabash Cannonball” is a traditional American folk song that was originally published to sheet music in 1882 under the title “The Great Rock Island Route” written by J. A. Roff. The song was later rewritten under the title “Wabash Cannonball” in 1904 by William Kindt. In this guitar lesson, we’ll show you the chords and lyrics to “Wabash Cannonball” along with two full-length guitar solos. The first guitar solo incorporates a lot of the song’s melody line notes and the second solo is loaded with bluegrass flatpicking licks.

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