60's Cowboy Country Western!

Covers a vintage 1940s/1950s Country and Western style guitar solo in contrast to a more modern chicken picking/telecaster sounds. It fuses ideas from Jazz and Blues such as playing modally, syncopated rhythms, and chromatic runs.

Lap steel guitar using only equipment that you probably already have! No modification to your guitar required. Just a simple alternate tuning with your standard string gauges.

Traditional song

Country Folk song from 1860.

This lesson covers the early USA music heard in the Wild West.

Lap steel guitar using only equipment that you probably already have! No modification to your guitar required. Just a simple alternate tuning with your standard string gauges.

A twangy rendition of an American folk song.

What would happen if we forced a true "rocker" to write a country solo? - We would get a country solo for wannabes. The advantages of such a solo are many, as an unexperienced country guitarist definately needs a different approach than a western veteran. In this lesson I give you the most common country techniques - from a rock perspective. Don't miss this oportunity - come along and take one step closer to creating your own unique style: by adding country licks into your playing. Some of these are so simple I promise you will get a few tricks under your fingers right away. Open string licks, banjo rolls, chicken picking, double stops - you have got it all here!