In the previous guitar lesson in this course, I showed you five of the most common ways to build a guitar solo and we talked about several techniques that will help you improvise better guitar solos. We also discussed the first type of solo in detail — the melodic guitar solo.
In this guitar lesson, you’ll learn about the second type of guitar solo where we’ll play stock country & bluegrass licks over the top of a standard chord progression. First, I’ll teach you four stock country and bluegrass guitar licks. We’ll talk about how to use these licks to play a hard-driving guitar solo in a country and bluegrass style. Then, I’ll show you some more of my favorite lead guitar improvising techniques. As you’re studying the concepts in this lesson, be sure to also check out the Bluegrass Lick Library and Guitar Scale Charts that we have available at Country Guitar Online. After you complete this lesson, practice your country & bluegrass improvising over the backing track to “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” in the key of G. Lesson tablature is available for download below the video.
New lesson! Hope this gives y’all something fun to work on this weekend. Also, just a reminder to everybody that the best place to request lessons going forward is in the new CGO forum https://countryguitaronline.com/forum/
We have plenty of lessons on the way. I’m still planning to post a Sturgill Simpson style lesson soon and we keep getting several requests for more crosspicking lessons and several requests for classic country songs. I think y’all will like the next few lessons a lot.
Thanks for watching –
Devin
Devin nice classic country licks to apply to many classic compositions looking forward to more in the next few lessons! And plenty enough here to practice I’m sure! thanks for sharing!
back on track devin ! thanks for sharing your knowledges
Crystal clear teaching Devin!
Great lesson ! This lesson wil help me so much improving playing solo’s
Super. Licks, and I’m getting to memorize them. Any chance of a play through a little quicker so we can hear how it sounds as solo at full speed?
This would really help me to then play along with the backing track.
Thanks Devin awesome stuff
If you click the “1X” at the lower right of the video play bar, you can increase the speed of the Playthrough with tablature video to 2X. That should give you what you’re looking for. I actually forgot to add a solo demo to this lesson at full speed, but I’ll try to put something together later when I have some downtime.
I really appreciate the « playthrough with tablature » and the breakdown part…really helps, thanks Devin!
I like how you teach progress to the next lessons from 1st position these open chord progressions and each chords arpeggio/country riffs with those little half steps very good and fun too!
HI Devon, I am trying to play “PLAY THRU WITH TABLATURE ” on Lesson ID: A0160 but there is no play button
He John – It’s working fine on my end. Couple basic things you can try…
– reboot your computer and load the page again
– make sure your browser is up to date. I usually like using Google Chrome
– clear your web browser’s history
That should take take of it but if not feel free to send me a message through the live chat.
I think this is worth watching over even after three months ago.. it helps me understand basic theory mixing major and minor scales in open position, very useful straight forward basic but must know lesson! ty happy new year too!
Really good stuff. Detail comments to follow as I go through the lick library and focus more on the scale patterns.