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Rock, Country, & Bluegrass Guitar Heroes
Learn Signature Techniques of Rock & Country Guitar Legends Brent Mason, Steve Morse, Eric Johnson, Tony Rice, Bela Fleck, and Eddie Van Halen
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Andy Wood
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About this course
Every musician has a long list of other musicians, past and present, that have inspired, influenced and helped shape their own sound and musicality. It's the natural evolution of music. We asked Andy Wood to pass on to you some of the key learnings that his Guitar Heroes passed on to him.
”Brent Mason, Steve Morse, Eric Johnson, Tony Rice, Bela Fleck, and Eddie Van Halen have all greatly influenced my own sound as I’m sure they’ve influenced many other players. In this course, I’ll show you a few of the techniques and approaches that I picked up from each one of them.
We’ll start out with Brent Mason, Nashville telecaster royalty and the guy that inspired me to pick up the electric guitar. There’s Steve Morse, who to me represents the perfect southern blend of fusion, rock, and country.
Eric Johnson - the guy with Texas-size tone and cascading pentatonics. Tony Rice in my opinion the greatest flatpicker of all time and my childhood acoustic guitar hero.
One of my guitar heroes doesn't even play the guitar but he inspired my guitar playing all the same - modern banjo pioneer Bela Fleck. And in the final study, we’ll look at the greatest rock guitarist of all time, Eddie Van Halen!
As you can see, my influences are all over the place - we're talkin' rock legends/guitar hero icons that reinvented the landscape as well as bluegrass and banjo players right alongside them. These guys all make up my musical DNA. Steal a lick or two from this and try to look at the guitar from an angle you maybe wouldn't have, too! ”
In this course, Andy will first introduce his heroes to you and describe why he found them so influential. After each discussion, Andy will then present a performance study illustrating those influences in a musical context, over a backing track. A breakdown follows every performance and Andy will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches in play
You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all of the performance studies. Plus, you’ll be able to use TrueFire’s learning tools to sync the tab and notation to the video lesson. You can also loop or slow down the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace. All of the backing tracks are included to work with on your own as well.
Grab your guitar and let’s dig in with Andy Wood!
”Brent Mason, Steve Morse, Eric Johnson, Tony Rice, Bela Fleck, and Eddie Van Halen have all greatly influenced my own sound as I’m sure they’ve influenced many other players. In this course, I’ll show you a few of the techniques and approaches that I picked up from each one of them.
We’ll start out with Brent Mason, Nashville telecaster royalty and the guy that inspired me to pick up the electric guitar. There’s Steve Morse, who to me represents the perfect southern blend of fusion, rock, and country.
Eric Johnson - the guy with Texas-size tone and cascading pentatonics. Tony Rice in my opinion the greatest flatpicker of all time and my childhood acoustic guitar hero.
One of my guitar heroes doesn't even play the guitar but he inspired my guitar playing all the same - modern banjo pioneer Bela Fleck. And in the final study, we’ll look at the greatest rock guitarist of all time, Eddie Van Halen!
As you can see, my influences are all over the place - we're talkin' rock legends/guitar hero icons that reinvented the landscape as well as bluegrass and banjo players right alongside them. These guys all make up my musical DNA. Steal a lick or two from this and try to look at the guitar from an angle you maybe wouldn't have, too! ”
In this course, Andy will first introduce his heroes to you and describe why he found them so influential. After each discussion, Andy will then present a performance study illustrating those influences in a musical context, over a backing track. A breakdown follows every performance and Andy will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches in play
You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all of the performance studies. Plus, you’ll be able to use TrueFire’s learning tools to sync the tab and notation to the video lesson. You can also loop or slow down the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace. All of the backing tracks are included to work with on your own as well.
Grab your guitar and let’s dig in with Andy Wood!
What you'll learn
- Create Eddie Van Halen-style squeals using harmonics and tremolo bar
- Recognizing the connection between acoustic flatpicking and electric lead playing
- Recognizing connections between seemingly different musical genres
- Learning how bluegrass phrasing can be applied to electric guitar
- Learning to draw inspiration from unexpected sources including non-guitarists
Release date: 12/23/2020 • 2h 28m runtime
Sample lessons
Southern Fusion
Performance
Bela Fleck
My Guitar Heroes: 5
A Hint Of Banjo
Overview
A Hint Of Banjo
Performance
What's included
26 lessons • 9 charts • 6 Jam Tracks
My Guitar Heroes: Andy Wood
Every musician has a long list of other musicians, past and present, that have inspired, influenced and helped shape their own sound and musicality. It's the natural evolution of music.
We asked some of our Guitar Heroes to pass on to you some of the key learnings that their Guitar Heroes passed on to them...
Hey, I’m Andy Wood, and welcome to My Guitar Heroes.
Brent Mason, Steve Morse, Eric Johnson, Tony Rice, Bela Fleck, and Eddie Van Halen have all greatly influenced my own sound as I’m sure they’ve influenced many other players. In this course, I’ll show you a few of the techniques and approaches that I picked up from each one of them.
All of the performances are transcribed and you’ll be able to sync the tab and notation to the video using TrueFire’s learning tools.
You can also loop or slow down the videos so you can work with the lessons at your own pace. All of the backing tracks are included to work with on your own.
Ready to get started? Grab your guitar, and let’s go!
We asked some of our Guitar Heroes to pass on to you some of the key learnings that their Guitar Heroes passed on to them...
Hey, I’m Andy Wood, and welcome to My Guitar Heroes.
Brent Mason, Steve Morse, Eric Johnson, Tony Rice, Bela Fleck, and Eddie Van Halen have all greatly influenced my own sound as I’m sure they’ve influenced many other players. In this course, I’ll show you a few of the techniques and approaches that I picked up from each one of them.
All of the performances are transcribed and you’ll be able to sync the tab and notation to the video using TrueFire’s learning tools.
You can also loop or slow down the videos so you can work with the lessons at your own pace. All of the backing tracks are included to work with on your own.
Ready to get started? Grab your guitar, and let’s go!
Brent Mason
It all kind of begins and ends with Brent Mason. My musical journey when I was 5 or 6 years old playing bluegrass mandolin. From that age until I was about 15 or 16, all I wanted to do was play bluegrass.
I'd buy records with my favorite bluegrass musicians on it, and one of those was by fiddle player Mark O'Connor called Mark O'Connor and the New Nashville Cats. I'd picked it up because it had Bela Fleck and Sam Bush on it, but there was this song called "Pick It Apart" that had lots of Nashville session players on it. One of the players was Brent, who took a ferocious guitar solo, and my eyes almost fell out of my head.
That solo made me want to play electric guitar! I sat with it and tried my hardest to learn it, and I'm still learning and playing it to this day. It's full of so many great Brent licks, which I love to play and have worked into what I do on the instrument.
I'd buy records with my favorite bluegrass musicians on it, and one of those was by fiddle player Mark O'Connor called Mark O'Connor and the New Nashville Cats. I'd picked it up because it had Bela Fleck and Sam Bush on it, but there was this song called "Pick It Apart" that had lots of Nashville session players on it. One of the players was Brent, who took a ferocious guitar solo, and my eyes almost fell out of my head.
That solo made me want to play electric guitar! I sat with it and tried my hardest to learn it, and I'm still learning and playing it to this day. It's full of so many great Brent licks, which I love to play and have worked into what I do on the instrument.
Nashville Tele Pickin'
This is a country blues, a I-IV-V with a riff rolling around in the background. I'm playing how I play, but you'll hear lots of things I got from Brent - chicken pickin', double stops and chromatic outside lines like he does.
Nashville Tele Pickin'
This is a country blues, a I-IV-V with a riff rolling around in the background. I'm playing how I play, but you'll hear lots of things I got from Brent - chicken pickin', double stops and chromatic outside lines like he does.
Nashville Tele Pickin'
This is a country blues, a I-IV-V with a riff rolling around in the background. I'm playing how I play, but you'll hear lots of things I got from Brent - chicken pickin', double stops and chromatic outside lines like he does.
Steve Morse
There aren't enough words or time to talk about Steve Morse. He's the superglue for me: I love rock, fusion, bluegrass, jazz and classical, and Steve Morse helps me put all of that together.
He was in a band called the Dixie Dregs that I discovered yet again through Mark O'Connor, who played with them for a while. Beyond that, I loved him playing with bands like Kansas and Deep Purple, but I love the Steve Morse Band and the music he made then. The way he'd blend fiddle tune style licks with shredding and neo-classical, something that makes me so happy as a bluegrass player.
He was in a band called the Dixie Dregs that I discovered yet again through Mark O'Connor, who played with them for a while. Beyond that, I loved him playing with bands like Kansas and Deep Purple, but I love the Steve Morse Band and the music he made then. The way he'd blend fiddle tune style licks with shredding and neo-classical, something that makes me so happy as a bluegrass player.
Southern Fusion
This track has the flavor of the song "Cruise Control" by the Dixie Dregs, a G progression with a b7 and b4 in there. The tempo is pretty quick - try to stay relaxed and get down the riff before you try to tackle the solo.
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Reviews
7 results
Jorge
10/18/21
An exceptional teacher on the guitar
An excellent lesson, the style of playing reminds you of great guitarists, Eddie Van Halen is one of my favorite guitarists and to have the opportunity to learn with a guitarist like Andy Wood who has a style influenced by him, inspires you to follow his lessons. The key concepts are understandable, the content has a dynamic that makes you want to acquire more knowledge and improve your skills. I highly recommend his lessons.
JesseD75
Verified buyer
05/26/21
Awesome
Andy is one of those guys that you could watch and learn from for days!
damochiman
Verified buyer
05/20/21
Expanding my horizons....
Excellent course, love the content, Andy is a great player, and does a great job covering a wide spectrum of styles here. For me this is great rut buster, introducing new concepts and approaches that I don't normally use. What attracted me to this course was the diverse influences Andy has. My favorite modules here were Bela Fleck and Tony Rice... wow, I knew about Bela Fleck but I have never heard of Tony Rice. These two lessons in particular, has busted me out of my current rut and have lent another dimension to my playing. and have heard Bela
rickpaulson
Verified buyer
01/10/21
My Guitar Heroes: Andy Wood
Really enjoying the course. Many new ideas that I am bringing into my playing
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