Lesson 10 – Rhythm Fill Riffs and Lead Guitar Course
Lesson ID: A0117
In this lesson, we’re going to travel up the neck in the key of G using the 1st position hybrid country guitar scales. I’ll teach you the four main scales you need to learn in the 1st position and I’ll show you how to use these scales to get a country and bluegrass sound out of your guitar. Then I’ll show you some of my favorite country and bluegrass fill riffs in the 1st position key of G.
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THat is an amazing lesson!! Great work! and those riffs are sweet
man that’s awesome
Another fantastic lesson as always! Thanks!
Just joined, looking forward to the lessons. Love your teaching method and your guitar playing. Thanks for taking the time putting this all together.
Hey Frank,
For sure! It’s a lot of fun doing the lessons. I’m really thankful people are enjoying the videos and actually signing up. Thanks a lot for joining! Plenty more lessons on the way so let me know if you ever have a lesson request.
Devin
Devin, thanks for all your time and efforts. I could not play a “lick” of bluegrass, before becoming a member, so thanks for providing such pro lessons. Here is my level best, on a few licks. There’s something about the bloody Red camera recording light that sure turns my mind to dust… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPzwVeqA9K4&t
Scooter, sounds great cant wait to be good enough to post a vid too, keep em coming
Thanks nemo. It still needs heavy polish to shine. Not enough hours in the day, so may have to start gettin’ up earlier and going to bed later… 🙂 bloody obsessions… Never give up… Devin’s relaxed style of instruction is perfect with no extra gimmicks – just good pro lessons.
Really enjoyed that, Scooter! Really coming along great. I’m the same as you, been playing for years and never progressed much. Never played a lick of bluegrass until happening upon CGO. And now it’s all I play! And I can say, hand on heart, that I’ve learned more in the last three months with this site than the previous twenty years 🙂
Thanks Wayne. Devin is a class act and is very pro and stays on message ( ie. the lesson at hand ). His site is very refreshing these days, since too many sites use gimmicks and up-selling concepts and it all gets frustrating ( IMHO ).
Thanks a lot Wayne and Scooter for the kind words. I’m really glad the lessons are helping out…makes me feel like what I’m doing here is worthwhile. Much appreciated! Hope y’all have a great weekend.
Nice Scooter, sounds great! I like the bluegrass fills and chord embellishments you added in there. Very catchy melody. Good stuff! Thanks for sharing your music. Comments like this that make all the time I spend on CGO worthwhile. Keep the videos coming!
So great!
Devin – This is one of my favorite lessons. The quality of all the videos, and the reliability / functionality of your site always works flawless. There is no constant start stop buffering or locked screens. Kudo’s to you & your IT team !!
Thanks JP, really nice to hear the feedback! Glad you’re enjoying the course!
Devin I think this whole concept you have here is amazing. I really love this lesson too
Hi Devin what fret does the hybrid scale start at? I don’t think I have seen a diagram of this either. Hope you are holding up with this Coronavirus situation
Hi George! Besides all of the grocery stores being out of basic goods, things are going ok here so far. Pretty crazy stuff. You can check out a diagram of this hybrid scale here https://countryguitaronline.com/open-position-guitar-scales/ and just find key of G at the bottom.. this chart really just shows the overlap between the major scale and the blues scale. The chart on this page will have the major scale in black and you can see where you have the option to play blues scale notes around the major scale. Hope that helps!
Thanks Devin. Amazing lesson. Learned so much with this one!
Great lesson. I”m getting a little confused on how to think about solos over each new chord. Some teachers say that you should change the scale with each new chord (ie G scales over G, C scales over C etc.). In this lesson, you seem to be playing the G scale (either major or minor) over the all chords. Can you please clarify?
Thanks
If a song is in the key of G, I usually stick to the key of G scales over all the chords, but I’ll try to use G scale notes/licks that follow the chord progression… so if the key of G, if it switches to a C chord, I’ll play a key of G scale lick built around the C chord.. a lot of different ways to do this, but an important thing that makes it follow the chord changes is if you play the root note of each chord in your “key of G licks” as rhythm changes from… Read more »
I really enjoyed this lesson. One suggestion for future lessons: Make sure the fret charts at the bottom of the video screens are oriented in the same direction as the viewer sees your guitar neck. The fret chart always seems to be with the nut on the left side of the screen and, of course, your guitar headstock is at the right of the screen. A simple thing, of course, but it takes just a little more work for the viewer to shift the chart in his/her mind to match you and your guitar. It would make a difference for… Read more »
Great lesson.. been hung up on these concepts until I watched this series…