Play Country Guitar 7: Style Variations

Diversify Your Country Guitar Chops with this Country Learning Path Core Course

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About this course

Welcome to Play Country Guitar 7: Style Variations for intermediate to late Intermediate students of Country guitar.

This Country Learning Path core course is presented by 6 top TrueFire educators: Jason Loughlin, Muriel Anderson, Alonzo Pennington, Cathy Fink, Eric Lambert, and Roberto Dalla Vecchia.

The Style Variations curriculum is comprised of select Country guitar lessons from the educators’ existing TrueFire course libraries.

One of the qualities that attracts all of us to the guitar is the virtually infinite range of styles and techniques that are possible on the instrument. Having a grasp on a wide variety of styles and techniques not only broadens your musicality, it opens the door to many more playing opportunities with other musicians. You’ll gain more clarity on the instrument overall and expressing yourself on it will become a richer experience. The video guitar lessons in this core course will diversify your skill set and help take your playing to the next level.

Play Country Guitar 7: Style Variations is organized into 5 sections. In the first section, Jason Loughlin shows you the ropes of Travis Picking. Muriel Anderson presents two Chet Atkin’s style performance studies in the second section. Alonzo Pennington presents Kentucky Thumbpicking techniques in Section 3. Cathy Fink and Eric Lambert team up to demonstrate a variety of bluegrass techniques in Section 4. Roberto Dalla Vecchia wraps up the course with a series of concepts and performance studies focused on solo flatpicking.

The educators demonstrate all of the key examples over jam tracks (where and when applicable) to simulate a real-world application, in a musical context. All of the key examples are also tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes.

You’ll also get Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop or slow down the tab and notation as you work through the lessons. Plus, you’ll have all of the available jam tracks to work with on your own.

Take as much time as you need to work through each video guitar lesson before moving on to the next lesson. If you want to dig deeper or wider into any of the topics covered in this core course, check out the recommended supplementary courses in your learning path where you’ll find more examples, techniques and insight from top TrueFire educators.

Grab your guitar and let’s get started!

What you'll learn

Master a cross-picking pattern
Bluegrass rhythm guitar techniques
pick angle manipulation
developing consistent picking technique
Learn to fill melodic spaces

Release date: 09/14/2016 • 3h 35m runtime

intermediate late intermediate advanced acoustic guitar guitar electric guitar

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Sample lessons

Travis Picking Patterns

Concept 4

Travis Pattern A

Demonstration

9 Pound Hammer

Overview

9 Pound Hammer

Performance

Travis Picking Patterns

Concept 4

Travis Pattern A

Demonstration

9 Pound Hammer

Overview

9 Pound Hammer

Performance

What's included

64 lessons • 27 charts • 12 Jam Tracks

Play Country Guitar 7: Style Variations

Welcome to Play Country Guitar 7: Style Variations for intermediate to late Intermediate students of Country guitar.

This Country Learning Path core course is presented by 6 top TrueFire educators: Jason Loughlin, Muriel Anderson, Alonzo Pennington, Cathy Fink, Eric Lambert, and Roberto Dalla Vecchia.

The Style Variations curriculum is comprised of select Country guitar lessons from the educators' existing TrueFire course libraries.

One of the qualities that attracts all of us to the guitar is the virtually infinite range of styles and techniques that are possible on the instrument. Having a grasp on a wide variety of styles and techniques not only broadens your musicality, it opens the door to many more playing opportunities with other musicians. You'll gain more clarity on the instrument overall and expressing yourself on it will become a richer experience. The video guitar lessons in this core course will diversify your skill set and help take your playing to the next level.

Play Country Guitar 7: Style Variations is organized into 5 sections. In the first section, Jason Loughlin shows you the ropes of Travis Picking. Muriel Anderson presents two Chet Atkin's style performance studies in the second section. Alonzo Pennington presents Kentucky Thumbpicking techniques in Section 3. Cathy Fink and Eric Lambert team up to demonstrate a variety of bluegrass techniques in Section 4. Roberto Dalla Vecchia wraps up the course with a series of concepts and performance studies focused on solo flatpicking.

The educators demonstrate all of the key examples over jam tracks (where and when applicable) to simulate a real-world application, in a musical context. All of the key examples are also tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes.

You'll also get Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop or slow down the tab and notation as you work through the lessons. Plus, you'll have all of the available jam tracks to work with on your own.

Take as much time as you need to work through each video guitar lesson before moving on to the next lesson. If you want to dig deeper or wider into any of the topics covered in this core course, check out the recommended supplementary courses in your learning path where you'll find more examples, techniques and insight from top TrueFire educators.

Grab your guitar and let's get started!

Travis Picking

Today, it's unthinkable to advance your skills as a fingerstyle guitarist without having a solid grip on Travis Picking, if only as a rite of passage. In this section, Jason Loughlin presents key principles and 2 performance studies to get you up to speed.

TIP! One of the best pieces of advice I ever got as a player, was to "learn it - then do it your own way". At first that seems counter-intuitive. Afterall we are trying to really nail the lessons we are working on, and once we do that… then we are supposed to change it? YES! Throughout history players have been borrowing, or outright stealing others licks and ideas, and then changing them to make them their own. Basically you have to start somewhere as you are developing your own voice on the guitar, so it makes sense to learn something that is already pretty cool, and then put your own spin on it. Try it out, learn a new lick or pattern, but then instead of just moving on to something else - look at how you can tweak, adapt, extend, change and make it your own.

Common Chord Shapes

Common Chord Shapes - Concept 1 is a video guitar lesson presented by Jason Loughlin and is sourced from Focus On: Travis Picking.

I've provided you with three common shapes that will let you play a bunch of travis picking tunes. In the section you'll learn a Dom 13th, Dom 7th and Dom 9th chord shape. They are all movable shapes. Which means once you know where the roots are you can put them in any key. We will use them throughout the course.

Building I, IV, V Progressions

Building I, IV, V Progressions - Concept 2 is a video guitar lesson presented by Jason Loughlin and is sourced from Focus On: Travis Picking.

I'll give you three approaches to easily locate the I, IV and V chord in a key. The single string approached lets us find the root of the I, IV and V chord all on one string. You can do this off of any string. Find the Root of the key and move up two whole steps and a half step. That's 5 frets higher. We call that distance a fourth. This is our IV chord. Our V chord is always a whole step higher. That's 2 frets higher. The 6th string approach means we are starting with our root on the 6th string and trying to stay in position for the IV and V chords. So instead of jumping around on one string I'm going to look for the IV chord on the 5th string. It's super simple to find. The IV chord is directly underneath on the root on the 5th string. The V chord is always a whole step higher. The 5th string approach has us starting with our I chord's root on the 5th string. Now we're going to look for the closest IV chord. You'll find this by moving your I chord root down a whole step(2 frets) and then moving straight up to the 6th string. The V chord is a whole step higher(2 frets).

Drills

Drills - Concept 3 is a video guitar lesson presented by Jason Loughlin and is sourced from Focus On: Travis Picking.

Julie Andrews once sang "A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down". She also said "you brought a strat to a country gig!" Don't research that last quote. The drills are dedicated to getting rhythmic coordination and building hand strength. This is going to make the rest of this course and any other encounters with travis picking so much easier. You'll be happy you spent the time on these. The drills are divided into six parts. You'll be using your three common chord shapes. These are great for rockabilly. We'll learn four type of drills that will have us playing different melodies and rhythms against a constant alternating bass line. You should play each drill ten times a day every day. Remember when I said everyday?

Travis Picking Patterns

Travis Picking Patterns - Concept 4 is a video guitar lesson presented by Jason Loughlin and is sourced from Focus On: Travis Picking.

We're gonna learn a simple two measure travis picking pattern that can be applied to some common chord shapes. I'll be honest, you can get a ton of mileage out of just knowing this. It will sound great for rockabilly and country music. Especially, when you throw some snapback echo on it. Try the pattern over out I, IV, V progression using our common chord shapes.

Walking Bass Line Fills

Walking Bass Line Fills - Concept 5 is a video guitar lesson presented by Jason Loughlin and is sourced from Focus On: Travis Picking.

Finally, we get to fire our upright player. Let's face it he takes up too much room on stage, in cars and he's usually the guy that comes up to you and says something weird when you're talking to a cute girl. We're going to build on our chord shapes and our two measure picking pattern by adding in walking bass line fills. I'm going to do this over our I, IV, V progression using our three approaches. I'll be using the major scale and chromatic passing tones to form my walking lines. A chart with major scales and common runs is included here.

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dan1956

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04/17/23

Play Country Guitar 7

I am sure it is great all the courses I have looked at on Truefire are great. The truth is I have not reached this level yet and it is tax season and I am too busy working seven days a week 12 hours a day to even practice right now.