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Country & Nashville Guitar Heroes

Learn Signature Techniques of Country & Nashville Guitar Legends Don Rich, Chet Atkins, Jimmy Caps, Reggie Young, Brent Mason, and Danny Gatton

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Country & Nashville Guitar Heroes
Johnny Hiland

Johnny Hiland

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country, country rock, country blues

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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 Johnny Hiland to pass on to you some of the key learnings that his Guitar Heroes passed on to him.

”Don Rich, Chet Atkins, Jimmy Caps, Reggie Young, Brent Mason, and Danny Gatton are just a few of my favorite players that greatly influenced my sound, as I’m sure they influenced many other players as well. I’ll show you a few of the techniques and approaches that I picked up from each one of my heroes and I’ll demonstrate those influences, over backing tracks for musical context.

Don Rich — The King of Bakersfield gave us all that Buck Owen sound we love. Chet Atkins, otherwise known as Mr. Guitar, introduced many of us to that amazing three-finger style using a thumb pick.

The man who taught me what was possible with chord voicings was Mr. Jimmy Caps. Reggie Young taught me how to take double-stops from sounding like chicken pickin’ to sounding so sweet and sensuous that you could bring a tear to your eyes. Brent Mason, the most recorded guitar player in Nashville history was the man who helped modernize chicken pickin’!

And last but certainly not least, my favorite Every guitar player of all time, Mr. Danny Gatton. He will always be the player that I’d most like to play exactly like, and try to every day of my life!”

In this course, Johnny will first introduce his heroes to you and describe why he found them so influential. After each discussion, Johnny will then present a performance study illustrating those influences in a musical context, over a backing track. A breakdown follows every performance and he 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 Johnny Hiland!

What you'll learn

  • Applying scale-based transitions (third to fifth) in musical contexts
  • Learning to incorporate half-tone bends into melodic playing
  • Using delay and chorus to enhance melodic phrases
  • Understanding session guitarist's approach to melody and phrasing
  • Developing flowing melodic lines that complement vocals
Release date: 03/10/2022 • 1h 59m runtime
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Sample lessons
Better Everyday
Better Everyday
Performance
Danny Gatton
Danny Gatton
My Guitar Heroes: 6
Blues for Jacob
Blues for Jacob
Overview
Blues for Jacob
Blues for Jacob
Performance

What's included

26 lessons • 12 charts • 6 Jam Tracks

My Guitar Heroes: Johnny Hiland
Hi I’m Johnny Hiland, and welcome to My Guitar Heroes.

Don Rich, Chet Atkins, Jimmy Caps, Reggie Young, Brent Mason, and Danny Gatton are just a few of the players that greatly influenced my sound.

In this course, I’ll first show you a few of the techniques and approaches that I picked up from each one of them and then we’ll play through a series of performance studies for musical context, complete with all of TrueFire’s learning tools to help you work through the content.

Ready to go? Grab your guitar and let me take you on a tour of some of my favorite guitar players of all time!
Don Rich
Don Rich is a huge hero of mine because he was so instrumental in creating that whole Bakersfield sound with Mr. Buck Owens. In this series of lessons I'm going to share with you how Don Rich influenced me. Next we'll jump into a tune inspired by the Don called Bakersfield Bounce. Finally, I'll break everything down in detail and show you how you can play in the style of the legendary Don Rich.
Bakersfield Bounce
Don Rich is a huge hero of mine because he was so instrumental in creating that whole Bakersfield sound with Mr. Buck Owens. In this series of lessons I'm going to share with you how Don Rich influenced me. Next we'll jump into a tune inspired by the Don called Bakersfield Bounce. Finally, I'll break everything down in detail and show you how you can play in the style of the legendary Don Rich.
Bakersfield Bounce
Don Rich is a huge hero of mine because he was so instrumental in creating that whole Bakersfield sound with Mr. Buck Owens. In this series of lessons I'm going to share with you how Don Rich influenced me. Next we'll jump into a tune inspired by the Don called Bakersfield Bounce. Finally, I'll break everything down in detail and show you how you can play in the style of the legendary Don Rich.
Bakersfield Bounce
Don Rich is a huge hero of mine because he was so instrumental in creating that whole Bakersfield sound with Mr. Buck Owens. In this series of lessons I'm going to share with you how Don Rich influenced me. Next we'll jump into a tune inspired by the Don called Bakersfield Bounce. Finally, I'll break everything down in detail and show you how you can play in the style of the legendary Don Rich.
Chet Atkins
Up next folks we have the one-and-only, “Mr. Guitar”, Chet Atkins! In this series of lessons I'm going to share with you how Chet Atkins influenced me. Next we'll jump into a tune inspired by Chet called Better Everyday. Finally, I'll break everything down in detail and show you how you can play in the style of the legendary Chet Atkins.
Better Everyday
Up next folks we have the one-and-only, “Mr. Guitar”, Chet Atkins! In this series of lessons I'm going to share with you how Chet Atkins influenced me. Next we'll jump into a tune inspired by Chet called Better Everyday. Finally, I'll break everything down in detail and show you how you can play in the style of the legendary Chet Atkins.

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Reviews

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Chris D.

01/19/24

GREAT COURSE!!!

I've been a True Fire all access member for years. I have taken lots of course on just about everything and enjoyed them all! If you want to get some country chops down, this is by far my favorite course. Tons of ideas you can cherry pick and pickup lots of useful ideas. I have learned most of the lessons note-for-note but find it's more fun to tweak the licks and mix them up. Johnny is an amazing guitarist and often comes up on my playlists. He can rock too...very versatile.

Boogie50

05/25/22

Another Great One from Johnny!

Johnny does a great job of taking you thru some of his favorite players (soon to be your’s, too!) and does a solid job of breaking down each of their techniques in playing style. Best part is, there are performance studies after each chapter and YOU get to apply what you’ve learned!

Emil

05/23/22

THANK YOU,MY MASTER JEDI...

Johnny Holland is just A M A Z I N G... This course ( as everything from him )is a pure Inspiration to all those who want to keep that Magic alive...I highly recommend it...Johnny Holland opens,as always...,The Door...Thank you...

gregdeB

Verified buyer

04/03/22

My Guitar Heroes: Johnny Hiland

Johnny Hiland is a GREAT player! But having said that he is not the worlds best teacher. I would have preferred if he stuck just a bit closer to his performance examples in his break downs of the performances. Now, having said that, this is a great course. Johnny's choice of players, techniques is spot on and his knowledge of the history of the players is amazing. Johnny's humor is also wonderful and really puts you at ease as you learn the material. If you are interested in Country guitar than this is a great lesson to pick up. You will get a lot out of it, if you put the work in.

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