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.
In this video, I’ll show you the basics of how to use Guitar Pro tablature software. I use Guitar Pro for creating all my guitar lesson tablature files and I use it all the time for tabbing out different licks and things that I come up with. In this lesson, we’ll be tabbing out a 12 bar blues progression that we’ll borrow from the song “Blues Stay Away From Me” in the style of Merle Haggard. We’ll have a link below this video where you can download a trial of Guitar Pro tab software and we’ll also have a button for downloading the tablature that goes along with this lesson.
In this guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play the traditional song called “I’ve been All Around This World”. First we’ll work through the main chord progression to this song and we’ll practice singing the verses with the chords & lyrics. Next you’ll learn two flatpicking guitar instrumental breaks. The first instrumental break brings in a lot of this song’s traditional melody and the second instrumental break has some nice flatpicking licks in the style of Bryan Sutton. Tablature files are available below the lesson video.
Note: Instrumental Break Progression = Verse Progression + Two Extra Measures of C at the end
| Video Start Time | Lesson Topic |
|---|---|
| 00:00 min | Lesson Overview |
| 00:36 min | Measures 1 through 4 |
| 06:45 min | Measures 5 through 8 |
| 14:01 min | Measures 9 through 12 |
| 19:02 min | Measures 13 through 17 |
| 23:45 min | Practice the Entire Instrumental Break |
| Video Start Time | Measures 1 through 4 |
|---|---|
| 00:00 min | Lesson Overview |
| 06:59 min | Measures 5 through 8 |
| 12:58 min | Measures 9 through 12 |
| 17:57 min | Measures 13 through 17 |
| 21:04 min | Practice the Entire Instrumental Break |