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Honky Tonk Solo Explorer

Learn Stylistic Approaches for Country Guitar Soloing!

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Honky Tonk Solo Explorer
Matthew Lee

Matthew Lee

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country, honky-tonk

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About this course

Honky Tonk guitarists encounter a wide variety of Country music styles on the gig or in a jamming situation. Every style has its own characteristics ranging from tone and effects to techniques and rhythmic feels.

In Matthew Lee’s Honky Tonk Solo Explorer, you’ll explore 5 commonly encountered styles and their unique characteristics. Matthew will share the key approaches, techniques and tone tips you’ll need to solo confidently in that particular style.

”We’ll play through a series of soloing studies for Train Beat Grooves, Country Shuffles, Riff-Based Grooves, Western Swing feels, and Modern Country Rock.

For each of the styles, I’ll cover the essential concepts and techniques upon need to know. I’ll also show you how to dial in your tone and effects to get an authentic sound. We’ll learn, practice and play a solo for each of the styles using jam tracks.”

Matthew will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches along the way. You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all of the licks. 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 also included to work with on your own.

Grab your guitar, and let's dig in with Matthew Lee!

What you'll learn

  • Execute hybrid picking technique for efficient note selection
  • Apply pre-bends and nuanced bending techniques
  • Use pedal tones as a compositional device
  • Play a complete swampy rock solo in drop D tuning
  • Outline chord changes melodically
Release date: 12/19/2022 • 1h 59m runtime
intermediatelate intermediateadvancedguitarelectric guitarsoloing
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Sample lessons
Soloing Over a Country Shuffle
Soloing Over a Country Shuffle
Style Tips, Insight & Approaches
Dialing a Sound For This Style
Dialing a Sound For This Style
Tone & Effects Considerations
Country Shuffle Solo in G
Country Shuffle Solo in G
Overview
Country Shuffle Solo in G
Country Shuffle Solo in G
Performance

What's included

27 lessons • 9 charts • 5 Jam Tracks

Honky Tonk Solo Explorer
Honky Tonk guitarists encounter a wide variety of Country music styles on the gig or in a jamming situation. In this course, we’ll explore 5 commonly encountered styles and I’ll show you how to solo confidently in that style.

We’ll play through a series of soloing studies for Train Beat Grooves, Country Shuffles, Riff-Based Grooves, Western Swing feels, and Modern Country Rock.

We’ll cover essential concepts and techniques, tone, and gear tips for getting an authentic sound in each style.

Everything is tabbed and synced to the video. You can slow down or loop any of the lessons to learn at your own pace.

Grab your guitar and let’s go!
Soloing Over a Train Beat Groove
In this series lessons we will be covering how to solo over a train beat groove. We'll start things off by going over what we need to do with our tone and effects to really dial in the sound for this style. Next, I'll kick things off with a short overview of the performance before playing the tune for your. Finally, I'll break it all down for you in detail, let's get started!
Dialing a Sound For This Style
In this series lessons we will be covering how to solo over a train beat groove. We'll start things off by going over what we need to do with our tone and effects to really dial in the sound for this style. Next, I'll kick things off with a short overview of the performance before playing the tune for your. Finally, I'll break it all down for you in detail, let's get started!
Train Beat Solo in C
In this series lessons we will be covering how to solo over a train beat groove. We'll start things off by going over what we need to do with our tone and effects to really dial in the sound for this style. Next, I'll kick things off with a short overview of the performance before playing the tune for your. Finally, I'll break it all down for you in detail, let's get started!
Train Beat Solo in C
In this series lessons we will be covering how to solo over a train beat groove. We'll start things off by going over what we need to do with our tone and effects to really dial in the sound for this style. Next, I'll kick things off with a short overview of the performance before playing the tune for your. Finally, I'll break it all down for you in detail, let's get started!
Train Beat Solo in C
In this series lessons we will be covering how to solo over a train beat groove. We'll start things off by going over what we need to do with our tone and effects to really dial in the sound for this style. Next, I'll kick things off with a short overview of the performance before playing the tune for your. Finally, I'll break it all down for you in detail, let's get started!
Soloing Over a Country Shuffle
In this series lessons we will be covering how to solo over a country shuffle. We'll start things off by going over what we need to do with our tone and effects to really dial in the sound for this style. Next, I'll kick things off with a short overview of the performance before playing the tune for your. Finally, I'll break it all down for you in detail, let's get started!

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Reviews

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Bryan

02/22/25

Best Practical Lessons

These are some of my favorite lessons. He has crafted these solos so that you can extract your own ideas and shapes and work on transitioning between changes. He covers the basic country styles and the lessons are just extremely practical. I hope there are more reviews for these lessons, he is an amazing player and teacher.

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