Starglazer
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12/26/23
Great Tittle
Tim Is a great teacher.Has a good selection of solos and a has a good service for every one.Thanks.
Solo Factory: Country Blues
Soloing & Improvisation for Fingerstyle Country Blues Guitar
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About this course
When learning how to perform, compose or improvise a fingerstyle country blues piece, you’ll first need command of a wide and versatile vocabulary of country blues phrases. The next step is learning how to connect that vocabulary of phrases into full-length solo guitar compositions and performances.
With Country Blues Factory, master performing and recording artist Tim Sparks presents an accelerated and comprehensive curriculum designed to get you up and running quickly and very musically.
Most fingerstyle Country Blues songs share similar 1-4-5 chord progressions. In this course, Tim shows you a vocabulary of phrases that work each of the chords in the progression. You’ll learn 6 phrases for the I chord, 6 phrases for the IV chord, 6 phrases for the V chord, and 6 phrases that work over the entire 12 bar blues form.
Tim will then show you how to connect these phrases across the entire 1-4-5 progression to form a complete solo guitar performance. Once you grasp the basic principles, you can mix up the selection of phrases anyway you wish, and then vary them to make them your own.
As you play your way through the course, Tim will also show you many ways to alter the phrases to make them more sophisticated and more suitable for contemporary fingerstyle blues performances and improvisations.
Tim will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches along the way. You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all 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.
Grab your guitar and let's dig in with Tim Sparks!
With Country Blues Factory, master performing and recording artist Tim Sparks presents an accelerated and comprehensive curriculum designed to get you up and running quickly and very musically.
Most fingerstyle Country Blues songs share similar 1-4-5 chord progressions. In this course, Tim shows you a vocabulary of phrases that work each of the chords in the progression. You’ll learn 6 phrases for the I chord, 6 phrases for the IV chord, 6 phrases for the V chord, and 6 phrases that work over the entire 12 bar blues form.
Tim will then show you how to connect these phrases across the entire 1-4-5 progression to form a complete solo guitar performance. Once you grasp the basic principles, you can mix up the selection of phrases anyway you wish, and then vary them to make them your own.
As you play your way through the course, Tim will also show you many ways to alter the phrases to make them more sophisticated and more suitable for contemporary fingerstyle blues performances and improvisations.
Tim will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches along the way. You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all 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.
Grab your guitar and let's dig in with Tim Sparks!
What you'll learn
- Use hybrid picking to create layered textures with open strings
- Combine lead lick with chord comping in the IV position
- Create major/minor tonal blending using hammer-ons and pull-offs
- Apply multiple I chord variations in a solo context
- Execute Solo #2 with proper technique and phrasing
Release date: 05/10/2021 • 1h 33m runtime
Sample lessons
Snake Eyes
I Chord: Lick #2
Moving Down the Line
IV Chord: Lick #6
Blue Ridge Blues
V Chord: Lick #6
Solo #3
Performance
What's included
43 lessons • 30 charts • 2 Jam Tracks
Solo Factory: Country Blues
Hi I'm Tim Sparks. Welcome to Country Blues Factory!
Most fingerstyle Country Blues songs share similar 1-4-5 chord progressions. Learning a versatile vocabulary of phrases that work over these common progressions is the key to creating your own original songs and improvisations.
In the first four sections, I'll show you six phrases for the I chord, six phrases for the IV chord, six phrases for the V chord, and six phrases that work over the entire 12 bar blues form.
In the final section, I'll show you how to connect these phrases, across the entire 1-4-5 progression to form a complete solo guitar performance. Once you grasp the basic principles, you can mix up the selection of phrases anyway you wish, and then vary them to make them your own.
As you play your way through the course, I'll also show you many ways to alter the phrases to make them more sophisticated and more suitable for contemporary fingerstyle blues performances and improvisations.
So, grab your guitar and let's get started!
Most fingerstyle Country Blues songs share similar 1-4-5 chord progressions. Learning a versatile vocabulary of phrases that work over these common progressions is the key to creating your own original songs and improvisations.
In the first four sections, I'll show you six phrases for the I chord, six phrases for the IV chord, six phrases for the V chord, and six phrases that work over the entire 12 bar blues form.
In the final section, I'll show you how to connect these phrases, across the entire 1-4-5 progression to form a complete solo guitar performance. Once you grasp the basic principles, you can mix up the selection of phrases anyway you wish, and then vary them to make them your own.
As you play your way through the course, I'll also show you many ways to alter the phrases to make them more sophisticated and more suitable for contemporary fingerstyle blues performances and improvisations.
So, grab your guitar and let's get started!
I Chord Licks
We're going to look at some tasty country and blues riffs that are incorporated into a fingerpicking style played over classic blues chord changes. We'll begin with a basic pentatonic scale in the key of E and add chromatic tones, interval skips and string bends to enrich your soloing vocabulary.
Slippin' & Slidin'
Slippin and Slidin' is a scale that covers two octaves using hammer ons and pull offs to create a relaxed flow. This riff resolves into a fingerpicking comping pattern.
Snake Eyes
Snake Eyes gets a little deeper with a bluesy pattern and a low E string bend to finish with a fingerpicking chord riff.
Boogaloo
Boogaloo is a bass pattern lick with string bends, double stops and chromatic tones.
Swamp Twang
With Swamp Twang we move up the neck a bit and introduce some tasty string bends á la Don Felder. There is also a new voicing of the I chord.
Spark-o-matic
Sparkomatic is a kind of Allman Brothers riff that cascades upward into a string bend and yet another voicing of the comping chord.
+ 36 more lessons
Reviews
5 results
Zaxan
Verified buyer
11/01/21
Inspiring, enjoyable and very well taught.
cmarsman
08/01/21
Improv arsenal development
This course is so nice for your fingerstyle development and improv arsenal! This guy plays solid as a rock, and explains stuff very clear. A joy for your fingerstyle development, as well as very useable for electric guitar chops.
MarkGavin
Verified buyer
06/18/21
Tim is fantastic
Such a great musician sharing his ideas in easy to digest bits which you can mix and match
jncinn
06/13/21
Care to really stand out when jamming and soloing with fingerstyle acoustic blues?
Then attach yourself to Tim Spark's latest gem of a course! Run through Tim's many great examples of cool licks and other ideas then graduate into working and reworking his numerous great solos at the end! It's never easy practicing guitar but the real effort of formulating great ideas and advice is truly the hardest work that Tim has expertly researched and put together in this nice and concise course!! Jim C.
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