chucksubra
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09/12/25
Great course. I will highly recommend to anyone who is interested in Bluegrass.
30 Hot Bluegrass Flatpicking Licks You Must Know
Expand Your Vocabulary of Bluegrass Flatpicking Licks
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About this course
If you love playing bluegrass, then you also love jamming and soloing across the entire Bluegrass songbook. Having command of a versatile, tasty vocabulary of licks that you can call on to craft your solos is essential. Need to beef up your vocabulary? Tyler Grant to the rescue!
Tyler Grant’s collection of 30 Hot Bluegrass Flatpicking Licks is your one-stop, fast-track solution for expanding your Bluegrass lick vocabulary with descending and ascending lines, bluesy licks, crosspicking moves, major and minor pentatonic phrases, repetitive figures, open string floaters, lines that navigate changes smoothly, fiddle tune tags, and many more must-know bluegrass licks!
”I love playing bluegrass-style flatpicking guitar, and I've been doing so for 20 years, over which I've explored a lot of different ways of approaching it, and developed a language of my own. In this collection, we'll be breaking down this language into it's components: short ideas, longer ideas and I will also show you how to string them together to create your own variations.
As we play our way through this course, I'll pass along lots of useful tips that'll help you with your bluegrass flatpicking. I'll demonstrate and break down each of the licks over a variety of jam tracks, different keys and chord progressions.”
Tyler will demonstrate and breakdown all of the licks, over backing tracks. 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 Tyler Grant!
Tyler Grant’s collection of 30 Hot Bluegrass Flatpicking Licks is your one-stop, fast-track solution for expanding your Bluegrass lick vocabulary with descending and ascending lines, bluesy licks, crosspicking moves, major and minor pentatonic phrases, repetitive figures, open string floaters, lines that navigate changes smoothly, fiddle tune tags, and many more must-know bluegrass licks!
”I love playing bluegrass-style flatpicking guitar, and I've been doing so for 20 years, over which I've explored a lot of different ways of approaching it, and developed a language of my own. In this collection, we'll be breaking down this language into it's components: short ideas, longer ideas and I will also show you how to string them together to create your own variations.
As we play our way through this course, I'll pass along lots of useful tips that'll help you with your bluegrass flatpicking. I'll demonstrate and break down each of the licks over a variety of jam tracks, different keys and chord progressions.”
Tyler will demonstrate and breakdown all of the licks, over backing tracks. 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 Tyler Grant!
What you'll learn
- Navigate smoothly from upper neck positions (6th-7th fret) down to open position
- Apply strict alternate picking patterns that move against natural picking intuition
- Create harp-like sounds by letting notes ring together across strings
- Incorporate flatted seventh for bluesy flavor in major scale contexts
- Add double stops for harmonic enrichment when fingering allows
Release date: 12/15/2020 • 3h 20m runtime
Sample lessons
Look Up Here
Lick 3
Rollin' It Up
Lick 12
Lifting It Up on the Shelf
Lick 18
Really Bringin' It Home
Lick 20
What's included
31 lessons • 30 charts • 8 Jam Tracks
30 Hot Bluegrass Flatpicking Licks
Hi, I'm Tyler Grant and welcome to 30 Hot Bluegrass Flatpicking Licks You MUST Know. I love playing bluegrass-style flatpicking guitar, and I've been doing so for 20 years, over which I've explored a lot of different ways of approaching it, and developed a language of my own.
Here we'll be breaking down this language into it's components: short ideas, longer ideas and how to string them together to create your own vocabulary and play excellent bluegrass guitar solos on your own!
As we play our way through this course, I'll pass along lots of useful tips that'll help you with your bluegrass flatpicking. I'll demonstrate and break down each of the licks over a variety of jam tracks, different keys and chord progressions.
All of the licks are transcribed, and you can sync the notation with the video using TrueFire Learning Tools. All the backing tracks are included, and you can loop or slow down the videos to work through the examples at your own pace.
Ready to get started? Grab your guitar and let's go!
Here we'll be breaking down this language into it's components: short ideas, longer ideas and how to string them together to create your own vocabulary and play excellent bluegrass guitar solos on your own!
As we play our way through this course, I'll pass along lots of useful tips that'll help you with your bluegrass flatpicking. I'll demonstrate and break down each of the licks over a variety of jam tracks, different keys and chord progressions.
All of the licks are transcribed, and you can sync the notation with the video using TrueFire Learning Tools. All the backing tracks are included, and you can loop or slow down the videos to work through the examples at your own pace.
Ready to get started? Grab your guitar and let's go!
Happy in the Country
We're going to get started with a standard bluegrass lick called "Happy in the Country" in G. A whole lot, if not most, of bluegrass is in G, so we'll dive right in here.
Tumbling Down the Hill
Here's a lick I named "Tumbling Down the Hill". It's a descending bluesy lick in the key of G. We're taking advantage of the G minor pentatonic scale in the open position on this one.
Look Up Here
Here's another bluesy bluegrass lick in G called "Look Up Here". Here we're using a combination of the major and minor pentatonic scale, often called a "mixture lick" where we've got some fun chromatic tones, too.
Blues in the Grass
Here's a bluegrass lick in the key of G called "Blues in the Grass". Blues language is a big part of bluegrass style of guitar, as well as the other instruments in the genre. Let's get to it.
Fiddlin' Around
Here's a fiddly mixture lick in the key of G called "Fiddlin' Around". I call this a mixture lick because it mixes major scale language with bluesy language. Let's check it out.
Crosspicking Shuffle Lick in G
Here's another lick in the key of G. Take note that we're crosspicking here, which means using a down-up pattern across a group of strings to get a rolling effect. Also take note of the shuffle feel, another popular bluegrass rhythm that you'll want to get familiar with.
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Reviews
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philb
Verified buyer
06/16/25
Licks taught by one of the great bluegrass guitar players
Full of trust worthy licks from a dedicated bluegrass guitar player.
impaktojoven
Verified buyer
04/16/25
Must have
Jefbry
Verified buyer
12/23/24
Bluegrass FP licks
Tyler Grant is a very good instructor and world class player. Glad i chose these courses
EarleG
Verified buyer
11/25/22
Tyler Grant's 30 Hot Bluegrass Flatpicking Licks
I'm not a bluegrass player but wanted to learn more about it and focus on this area of playing. The course is well done and easy to understand. Tylers playing and teaching of the techniques are both superb. The course is very enjoyable and helpful! Once learned it is easy to create variations of the licks.
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