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05/29/26
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1-2-3 Rockabilly Guitar
A theory-free, intuitive approach to rockabilly guitar
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About this course
"Well, it's one for the money, Two for the show,
Three to get ready, Now go, cat, go."
Back in the 1955, a gallon of gas cost 23-cents, Disneyland opened, both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were born, Rosa L Parks sets the Civil Rights Movement in motion and Carl Perkins wrote Blue Suede Shoes, which went on to become the first million-selling country song to cross over to both the rhythm & blues and pop charts. They called it country in ’55 but a year later the term ‘rockabilly’ was officially introduced by Billboard to describe what we all recognize today as the early roots of rock and roll.
"You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes."
Guitar players love Rockabilly. And what’s not to love about a genre that embraces Blues, Country, Western Swing, Boogie-Boogie, Honky-Tonk and Appalachian folk music?! Not to mention the fretboard influences we should all be thankful for from Rockabilly masters Cliff Gallup, Scotty Moore, James Burton, Eddie Cochran, Jim Heath, Gene Vincent, Charlie Feathers, Johnny Burnette, Danny Gatton, Brian Setzer, Jinx Jones, Darrel Higham, the Reverend Horton Heat and so many others.
Jason Loughlin’s 1-2-3 Rockabilly is your jet stream to this ear-pleasing and often-times challenging style of guitar. Intermediate players will be well served by Jason’s intuitive hands-on curriculum designed to introduce the student to the specific right and left-hand techniques, rhythmic feels and harmonic considerations required to play both rhythm and lead Rockabilly guitar.
1-2-3 Rockabilly is organized into three hands-on sections designed to get you up and running quickly: Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar and Repertoire.
In the first section, Jason focuses on Rockabilly rhythm guitar. You’ll learn the essential ins and outs of moveable Dominant 13th, 7th, and 9th chord forms for I, IV and V progressions. He’ll also show you three methods for finding the chord forms anywhere on the neck, in any key. Jason then demonstrates a shuffle feel, a travis picking pattern and the essential boogie boogie rhythm. Work through this section and hundreds of Rockabilly tunes will already be at your fingertips --in all 12 keys.
In the second section, you’ll focus on lead guitar by exploring three essential approaches for soloing and improvisation. You’ll learn how to play swing lines, versatile double-stops and blues-influenced licks that you can twist, turn, combine and make your own. You’ll learn how to apply those lines, and improvise with them, through a series of play alongs that Jason leads you through to demonstrate the different feels that you’ll encounter in the Rockabilly songbook.
The third section puts what you've learned in the first two sections to work as you start building your repertoire with six popular Rockabilly standards; Junk Yard Dog, Let’s Rock, Anything You Do, Lays Killer, Rip It Up and Hot Rod. Working with rhythm tracks, Jason will teach you the rhythm parts and then demonstrate how to solo over the tunes.
"Well, you can knock me down, Step in my face,
Slander my name, All over the place.
Do anything that you want to do, but uh-uh,
Honey, lay off of my shoes."
Three to get ready, Now go, cat, go."
Back in the 1955, a gallon of gas cost 23-cents, Disneyland opened, both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were born, Rosa L Parks sets the Civil Rights Movement in motion and Carl Perkins wrote Blue Suede Shoes, which went on to become the first million-selling country song to cross over to both the rhythm & blues and pop charts. They called it country in ’55 but a year later the term ‘rockabilly’ was officially introduced by Billboard to describe what we all recognize today as the early roots of rock and roll.
"You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes."
Guitar players love Rockabilly. And what’s not to love about a genre that embraces Blues, Country, Western Swing, Boogie-Boogie, Honky-Tonk and Appalachian folk music?! Not to mention the fretboard influences we should all be thankful for from Rockabilly masters Cliff Gallup, Scotty Moore, James Burton, Eddie Cochran, Jim Heath, Gene Vincent, Charlie Feathers, Johnny Burnette, Danny Gatton, Brian Setzer, Jinx Jones, Darrel Higham, the Reverend Horton Heat and so many others.
Jason Loughlin’s 1-2-3 Rockabilly is your jet stream to this ear-pleasing and often-times challenging style of guitar. Intermediate players will be well served by Jason’s intuitive hands-on curriculum designed to introduce the student to the specific right and left-hand techniques, rhythmic feels and harmonic considerations required to play both rhythm and lead Rockabilly guitar.
1-2-3 Rockabilly is organized into three hands-on sections designed to get you up and running quickly: Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar and Repertoire.
In the first section, Jason focuses on Rockabilly rhythm guitar. You’ll learn the essential ins and outs of moveable Dominant 13th, 7th, and 9th chord forms for I, IV and V progressions. He’ll also show you three methods for finding the chord forms anywhere on the neck, in any key. Jason then demonstrates a shuffle feel, a travis picking pattern and the essential boogie boogie rhythm. Work through this section and hundreds of Rockabilly tunes will already be at your fingertips --in all 12 keys.
In the second section, you’ll focus on lead guitar by exploring three essential approaches for soloing and improvisation. You’ll learn how to play swing lines, versatile double-stops and blues-influenced licks that you can twist, turn, combine and make your own. You’ll learn how to apply those lines, and improvise with them, through a series of play alongs that Jason leads you through to demonstrate the different feels that you’ll encounter in the Rockabilly songbook.
The third section puts what you've learned in the first two sections to work as you start building your repertoire with six popular Rockabilly standards; Junk Yard Dog, Let’s Rock, Anything You Do, Lays Killer, Rip It Up and Hot Rod. Working with rhythm tracks, Jason will teach you the rhythm parts and then demonstrate how to solo over the tunes.
"Well, you can knock me down, Step in my face,
Slander my name, All over the place.
Do anything that you want to do, but uh-uh,
Honey, lay off of my shoes."
What you'll learn
- Navigate chord changes in real-time during soloing
- Apply three swing licks (one chord, four chord, five chord) over a 12-bar blues progression
- Create variations on learned licks using slides, pull-offs, and repetition
- Recognize the historical context of double stops in rockabilly
- Develop ability to trade solos over a backing track
Release date: 05/29/2013 • 2h 47m runtime
Sample lessons
6th String Approach
Building a I IV V
Boogie
Overview
I IV V Travis Picking
Play Along
Swing Solo
Demonstration
What's included
60 lessons • 34 charts • 33 Jam Tracks
1-2-3 Rockabilly Guitar
I'm a big rockabilly fan. I discovered rockabilly as a little kid. My father had a Rockabilly compilation cassette tape called The Best of Rockabilly Volume 1 or something ridiculous like that. Those songs resonated with me immediately. There's a certain rebellious attitude built into rockabilly that is very alluring especially when you're eleven years old. I was pretty mesmerized by the guitar sounds, the gutsy vocals and that amazing echo. As a teenager I got more into rock and blues and eventually jazz. It wasn't until my early twenties that my love for rockabilly was rekindled. I heard Danny Gatton and something awoke in my DNA. I began to work backwards and dive into rockabilly and country music getting to know Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Charlie Feathers and Johnny Burnette.
So here's how Rockabilly 123 is going to work. It's divided into three sections. The first section we are going to look at is rhythm guitar playing. We going to learn about I IV and V chords and three different ways of finding them and then we'll learn three different rhythm guitar approaches. We'll learn a shuffle, travis picking and a boogie pattern. All of these are moveable which means you'll be able to play in all 12 keys. In section two we are going to focus on lead guitar and three different styles of improvisation. I'll teach you swing lines, double stop licks and "bluesier" sounding licks. This will allow you to play over a lot of different kinds of rockabilly tunes appropriately. Section three will have putting our new rhythm and lead guitar ideas to work on some rockabilly standards. I've picked six tunes that are very popular in the rockabilly repertoire. We are going to learn how to play the rhythm parts on these tunes and how to solo over them.
Everything covered in this course will be available in notation, tab and power tab. The best way to interact with this course in my opinion though is to really take advantage of the play along sections. I've also included rhythm tracks for everything in the course so you can practice rhythm and lead playing. When you get through with this course you'll have learned rhythm parts, lead licks and tunes that you can take to any jam session. Whether it's out at a gig or just at home jamming with friends you can feel confident that what you are playing is true to the style and language of rockabilly.
So here's how Rockabilly 123 is going to work. It's divided into three sections. The first section we are going to look at is rhythm guitar playing. We going to learn about I IV and V chords and three different ways of finding them and then we'll learn three different rhythm guitar approaches. We'll learn a shuffle, travis picking and a boogie pattern. All of these are moveable which means you'll be able to play in all 12 keys. In section two we are going to focus on lead guitar and three different styles of improvisation. I'll teach you swing lines, double stop licks and "bluesier" sounding licks. This will allow you to play over a lot of different kinds of rockabilly tunes appropriately. Section three will have putting our new rhythm and lead guitar ideas to work on some rockabilly standards. I've picked six tunes that are very popular in the rockabilly repertoire. We are going to learn how to play the rhythm parts on these tunes and how to solo over them.
Everything covered in this course will be available in notation, tab and power tab. The best way to interact with this course in my opinion though is to really take advantage of the play along sections. I've also included rhythm tracks for everything in the course so you can practice rhythm and lead playing. When you get through with this course you'll have learned rhythm parts, lead licks and tunes that you can take to any jam session. Whether it's out at a gig or just at home jamming with friends you can feel confident that what you are playing is true to the style and language of rockabilly.
Rhythm Guitar
In section 1 is all about rockabilly rhythm guitar. We will be learning three common chords found in rockabilly, we will be building I, IV, V progressions three different ways and we'll learn three styles of rhythm guitar that are going to let you play a wide variety of rockabilly tunes. Together we will play through a shuffle, a boogie and learn some classic travis picking.
3 Chord Shapes
In this section we're going to learn three common chord shapes that are going to help us invoke the rockabilly sound. All three of these shapes are movable which means it will be simple for us to play them in different keys and transpose our progressions. They're also three shapes that will work well as open chords.
Dominant 13th
In this segment we will learn a G Dom13 chord shape. We'll start by barring 1st finger over all the strings of the third fret. Next we will take our 3rd finger and place it on the fifth fret of the A string, your 2nd finger goes on the fourth fret of the G string and finally put your 4th finger on the fifth fret of the B string. This is a movable chord shape. In other words it can be played anywhere on the guitar neck. The chord gets its name from the root of the chord which can be found on either the high or low E string. If you wanted to make this an A Dom13 chord you would simply find an A note on the low E string and build this shape.
Dominant 7th
In this segment we will learn a C Dom7 chord shape. We'll start by placing your 1st finger on the third fret of the A string. Next we will take our 3rd finger and place it on the fifth fret of the D, G and B strings. You accomplish this by hyper extending your finger so it can barre across all the strings. Finally put your 4th finger on the sixth fret of the E string. This is a movable chord shape. In other words it can be played anywhere on the guitar neck. The chord gets its name from the root of the chord which can be found on either the A or G string. If you wanted to make this an E Dom7 chord you would simply find an E note on the A string and build this shape. Make sure to avoid hitting the low E string. It's not part of this shape.
Dominant 9th
In this segment we will learn a D Dom9 chord shape. We'll start by placing the 2nd finger on the fifth fret of the A string. Next we will take our 1st finger and place it on the fourth fret of the D string and finally your 3rd finger will barre across the G, B and E strings by hyper extending. This is a movable chord shape. In other words it can be played anywhere on the guitar neck. The chord gets its name from the root of the chord which can be found on the A string. If you wanted to make this chord a C Dom7 you would simply find an C note on the A string and build this shape. Make sure to not play the low E string. It's not part of the movable shape.
3-Chord Progressions
Let's learn three ways to find our I IV and V chord. Most of you have probably heard this terminology before but might not of understood what it means. It's been around for a very long time. The most modern name for it is the "Nashville" system though jazz and classical musicians have been using it forever. You are simply assigning a chord to every note of a scale. Instead of thinking of a major scale as Do-Re Me-Fa-So-La-Ti-Do, think of it as 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-1. A I chord is a chord built off of the first note of a scale, a IV chord is off of the fourth note and the V is off of the fifth. These three chords are the most used chords in any key. Thousands of songs have been made with only these three chords. That should give you some confidence right there. I'll show you three easy ways to find them.
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Reviews
39 results
BenTaylor
Verified buyer
03/09/26
Nice intro to rockabilly
Jason is a great teacher! Everything was very clear and concise. I already knew some of the material he went over, but some of it was new to me. The one thing I struggled with was the Travis picking part, which isn’t the teacher’s fault as much as it is my brain not connecting to my fingers. But Jason seems to have courses for several of my favorite styles of music so I will be checking those out as well.
Fred7
Verified buyer
10/11/25
Good course
Enjoying course so far. Definitely value for money
RicardoPetri
Verified buyer
03/04/25
great start for 101 rockabillers
Well Detailed and very dididic. great start for 101 rockabillers like me.
Wallh24
Verified buyer
12/21/24
Great introduction course!
I am enjoying this course very much. Big fan of all Jason's teachings so far. It's fun, challenging, and gives you background on the style and music in the course. I will be getting more from Jason, I like his teachings and play.
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