mkerrisk
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12/10/25
Play country guitar
This is a very helpful course that walks you through the process piece by piece. I highly recommend this instructional course
Play Country Guitar 5: Lick Vocabulary
Supercharge Your Country Guitar Licks with this Country Learning Path Core Course
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Welcome to Play Country Guitar 5: Lick Vocabulary for intermediate to late Intermediate students of Country guitar.
This Country Learning Path core course is presented by 4 top TrueFire educators: Jason Loughlin, Joe Dalton, Ray Nijenhuis, and Bill Kirchen.
The Lick Vocabulary curriculum is comprised of select Country guitar lessons from the educators’ existing TrueFire course libraries.
Music is a language. In the same way that words and sentences are connected to form stories, musical licks and phrases are connected to form solos. And just like any language, the more robust your musical vocabulary is, the more interesting and diverse your solos will be. The video guitar lessons in this core course will equip you with an essential vocabulary of licks along with the technical skills required to take your soloing skills to the next level.
Play Country Guitar 5: Lick Vocabulary features a wide variety of licks including licks inspired by country masters, rockabilly licks, western swing, hot rod, and country jazz licks. The educators will perform the licks and then break them down for you emphasizing the techniques in play.
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.
This Country Learning Path core course is presented by 4 top TrueFire educators: Jason Loughlin, Joe Dalton, Ray Nijenhuis, and Bill Kirchen.
The Lick Vocabulary curriculum is comprised of select Country guitar lessons from the educators’ existing TrueFire course libraries.
Music is a language. In the same way that words and sentences are connected to form stories, musical licks and phrases are connected to form solos. And just like any language, the more robust your musical vocabulary is, the more interesting and diverse your solos will be. The video guitar lessons in this core course will equip you with an essential vocabulary of licks along with the technical skills required to take your soloing skills to the next level.
Play Country Guitar 5: Lick Vocabulary features a wide variety of licks including licks inspired by country masters, rockabilly licks, western swing, hot rod, and country jazz licks. The educators will perform the licks and then break them down for you emphasizing the techniques in play.
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.
What you'll learn
- Learn genre-specific soloing techniques
- understand country guitar licks
- Learning to document musical concepts
- develop swing rhythm technique
- Develop diverse country guitar lick vocabulary
Release date: 09/14/2016 • 2h 34m runtime
Sample lessons
Paisley Pickin'
Lick 48
Pedal Steel 1
Lick 1
Speedy's Blues
Lick 30
Happy Trails
Lick #28
What's included
49 lessons • 44 charts • 41 Jam Tracks
Play Country Guitar 5: Lick Vocabulary
Welcome to Play Country Guitar 5: Lick Vocabulary for intermediate to late Intermediate students of Country guitar.
This Country Learning Path core course is presented by 4 top TrueFire educators: Jason Loughlin, Joe Dalton, Ray Nijenhuis, and Bill Kirchen.
The Lick Vocabulary curriculum is comprised of select Country guitar lessons from the educators' existing TrueFire course libraries.
Music is a language. In the same way that words and sentences are connected to form stories, musical licks and phrases are connected to form solos. And just like any language, the more robust your musical vocabulary is, the more interesting and diverse your solos will be. The video guitar lessons in this core course will equip you with an essential vocabulary of licks along with the technical skills required to take your soloing skills to the next level.
Play Country Guitar 5: Lick Vocabulary features a wide variety of licks including licks inspired by country masters, rockabilly licks, western swing, hot rod, and country jazz licks. The educators will perform the licks and then break them down for you emphasizing the techniques in play.
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!
This Country Learning Path core course is presented by 4 top TrueFire educators: Jason Loughlin, Joe Dalton, Ray Nijenhuis, and Bill Kirchen.
The Lick Vocabulary curriculum is comprised of select Country guitar lessons from the educators' existing TrueFire course libraries.
Music is a language. In the same way that words and sentences are connected to form stories, musical licks and phrases are connected to form solos. And just like any language, the more robust your musical vocabulary is, the more interesting and diverse your solos will be. The video guitar lessons in this core course will equip you with an essential vocabulary of licks along with the technical skills required to take your soloing skills to the next level.
Play Country Guitar 5: Lick Vocabulary features a wide variety of licks including licks inspired by country masters, rockabilly licks, western swing, hot rod, and country jazz licks. The educators will perform the licks and then break them down for you emphasizing the techniques in play.
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!
Essential Licks
In this section you will play some essential country licks, working on techniques like double stops and pedal steel licks. Learning licks from the country masters will help round out your country playing.
TIP! Like any person who speaks eloquently has a grasp of a variety of words to get their message across, so it is with licks for guitar players. The more licks you know and work on, the more you expand your vocabulary to communicate with your guitar.
When you sit down to work on licks, make sure you are taking your time. Get not only the lick itself down, but make a mental note of all the different techniques that the lick includes. Does it have bending in it? Hammer ons or Pull offs, slides, vibrato? What kind of phrasing is used? What scale is it from? What chords can it be played over? There is a lot more to a lick than just playing through it. Make sure you are really getting the most knowledge out of every lick you learn. You'll find that knowledge helpful down the road.
TIP! Like any person who speaks eloquently has a grasp of a variety of words to get their message across, so it is with licks for guitar players. The more licks you know and work on, the more you expand your vocabulary to communicate with your guitar.
When you sit down to work on licks, make sure you are taking your time. Get not only the lick itself down, but make a mental note of all the different techniques that the lick includes. Does it have bending in it? Hammer ons or Pull offs, slides, vibrato? What kind of phrasing is used? What scale is it from? What chords can it be played over? There is a lot more to a lick than just playing through it. Make sure you are really getting the most knowledge out of every lick you learn. You'll find that knowledge helpful down the road.
Lonesome Steel
Lonesome Steel - Lick 4 is a video guitar lesson presented by Jason Loughlin and is sourced from 50 Country Masters Licks You MUST Know.
This lick is based on the lapsteel intro to Hank William's cover of "Long Gone Lonesome Blues". This tune was released in 1950 and was Hank's firt number 1 hit. The B side was "My Son Calls Another Man Daddy". This type of steel intro is using the interval of a sixth, which means two notes that are six scale steps apart. We are moving them through the key and targeting the chord tones of each chord we are playing over. Lap steel players liked to connect these intervals with chromatic passing tones.
This lick is based on the lapsteel intro to Hank William's cover of "Long Gone Lonesome Blues". This tune was released in 1950 and was Hank's firt number 1 hit. The B side was "My Son Calls Another Man Daddy". This type of steel intro is using the interval of a sixth, which means two notes that are six scale steps apart. We are moving them through the key and targeting the chord tones of each chord we are playing over. Lap steel players liked to connect these intervals with chromatic passing tones.
Kentucky Pickin'
Kentucky Pickin' - Lick 15 is a video guitar lesson presented by Jason Loughlin and is sourced from 50 Country Masters Licks You MUST Know.
This picking pattern is based on some really cliché bluegrass picking patterns. Inspired by Clarence White and Tony Rice. Most of the time these patterns are done in an open position, because that's what bluegrass players like to do to get as much resonance as possible. In fact, that's why you see a lot of flatpickers using capos. It's not because they can't play up high on the neck and in different positions. It's because playing with a capo allows you to to use the most open strings and create a full sound. Bluegrass is a huge influence on country guitar playing but as country guitar players were not always going to have a chance to throw on a capo, and it would not give us the most amount of freedom on the guitar. So we need to know these classic bluegrass licks in some moveable shapes and positions. I think it's important to try them within each of the positions of the CAGED system- I am doing this out of the C chord shape, but you should try it in the A,G,E, and D chord shape also.
This picking pattern is based on some really cliché bluegrass picking patterns. Inspired by Clarence White and Tony Rice. Most of the time these patterns are done in an open position, because that's what bluegrass players like to do to get as much resonance as possible. In fact, that's why you see a lot of flatpickers using capos. It's not because they can't play up high on the neck and in different positions. It's because playing with a capo allows you to to use the most open strings and create a full sound. Bluegrass is a huge influence on country guitar playing but as country guitar players were not always going to have a chance to throw on a capo, and it would not give us the most amount of freedom on the guitar. So we need to know these classic bluegrass licks in some moveable shapes and positions. I think it's important to try them within each of the positions of the CAGED system- I am doing this out of the C chord shape, but you should try it in the A,G,E, and D chord shape also.
Six Days Six Strings
Six Days Six Strings - Lick 16 is a video guitar lesson presented by Jason Loughlin and is sourced from 50 Country Masters Licks You MUST Know.
This lick comes to us from one of the first truck driving, or "truckerbilly," tunes by Dave Dudley. It's a fill from a tune called "Six Days on the Road" released in 1963. It features Jimmy Colvard on the guitar doing all his harmonic pings and pongs and crazy sounds. But the reason I picked this one, is because there is a rhythm in here, by Jimmy and the steel player that Don Rich also ends up playing with the buckaroos. It's a famous rhythmic pattern that gets used in a lot of solos and rhythm guitar parts. It's based out of a simple chord shape. We're incorporating a rake and some hybrid picking.
This lick comes to us from one of the first truck driving, or "truckerbilly," tunes by Dave Dudley. It's a fill from a tune called "Six Days on the Road" released in 1963. It features Jimmy Colvard on the guitar doing all his harmonic pings and pongs and crazy sounds. But the reason I picked this one, is because there is a rhythm in here, by Jimmy and the steel player that Don Rich also ends up playing with the buckaroos. It's a famous rhythmic pattern that gets used in a lot of solos and rhythm guitar parts. It's based out of a simple chord shape. We're incorporating a rake and some hybrid picking.
Six Chickens
Six Chickens - Lick 29 is a video guitar lesson presented by Jason Loughlin and is sourced from 50 Country Masters Licks You MUST Know.
This is a classic chicken pickin lick that uses the interval of a 6th as a template. This lick is inspired by Jerry Reed's guitar playing. He uses this lick in the solo break to "The Claw". It can be found in a lot of players' solos, like Danny Gatton, Brent Mason, Vince Gill and Albert Lee, to name a few. Everyone uses this approach to playing 6ths. It starts by approching the bottom note of the interval chromatically from a whole step underneath. Pluck each note of the approach and then pop the high note of the interval with the middle finger. That's what gives you the chicken pickin sound.
This is a classic chicken pickin lick that uses the interval of a 6th as a template. This lick is inspired by Jerry Reed's guitar playing. He uses this lick in the solo break to "The Claw". It can be found in a lot of players' solos, like Danny Gatton, Brent Mason, Vince Gill and Albert Lee, to name a few. Everyone uses this approach to playing 6ths. It starts by approching the bottom note of the interval chromatically from a whole step underneath. Pluck each note of the approach and then pop the high note of the interval with the middle finger. That's what gives you the chicken pickin sound.
Albert's Triads
Albert's Triads - Lick 33 is a video guitar lesson presented by Jason Loughlin and is sourced from 50 Country Masters Licks You MUST Know.
This lick is based on Albert Lee's chicken pickin' over triad shapes. Albert has a few different chicken pickin patterns he plays over triads but I think this is his most recognizable. He uses these three different triad shapes to be able to play in a position and change chords while not having to jump around the neck. What I am going to do is to show you his chicken pickin pattern over these three different triad shapes over one chord so you can see all three shapes and then you can put them together however you want.
This lick is based on Albert Lee's chicken pickin' over triad shapes. Albert has a few different chicken pickin patterns he plays over triads but I think this is his most recognizable. He uses these three different triad shapes to be able to play in a position and change chords while not having to jump around the neck. What I am going to do is to show you his chicken pickin pattern over these three different triad shapes over one chord so you can see all three shapes and then you can put them together however you want.
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Reviews
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alan195473
Verified buyer
01/04/25
Surprisingly good!
I must admit I approached this volume of Play Country Guitar with a fair amount of skepticism but was pleasantly surprised by what I found. Lots of wonderful "licks" that were very playable after having completed Volumes 1-4. Since I'm new to playing country style, it all came in quite handy. Yup, I'd recommend this!
mazzap1234
Verified buyer
11/11/21
A great collection of licks that had me practicing for hours . Would strongly recommend it to any guitarist of any genre.
tomac
Verified buyer
10/20/21
Good point on my knowledge path
wholmer
12/24/20
Great licks to start out with!
Some of these are quite a challenge. Then I just took them and made them my own and it made a world of a difference. By adding these licks my vocabulary has grown to where I can add more complex ideas to my playing. That's the next step after getting all these licks under your belt.
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