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Play Country Guitar 6: Soloing Principles

Energize Your Country Guitar Solos with this Country Learning Path Core Course

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Play Country Guitar 6: Soloing Principles
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Welcome to Play Country Guitar 6: Soloing Principles for intermediate to late Intermediate students of Country guitar.

This Country Learning Path core course is presented by 6 top TrueFire educators: Carl Verheyen, Jason Loughlin, Johnny Hiland, Joe Dalton, Ladd Smith, and Jim Campilongo.

The Soloing Principles curriculum is comprised of select Country guitar lessons from the educators’ existing TrueFire course libraries.

Solid rhythm chops may get you the gig but it's your soloing chops that gets you the spotlight and the opportunity to electrify the audience with your musicality. Creativity, technique, and vocabulary are the essential skills you’ll need to master the art of improvisation and develop into a great soloist. The video guitar lessons in this core course will equip you with the requisite tools and guidance to take your soloing skills to the next level.

Play Country Guitar 6: Soloing Principles is organized into 2 sections. In the first section, you’ll work through 29 lessons from a variety of TrueFire country guitar educators who will present essential soloing concepts and techniques. In the second section, the educators will guide you through 7 soloing performance studies applying many of the techniques and concepts from the first section. The educators will demonstrate the soloing performances 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!

What you'll learn

  • Learn passing tone techniques
  • Understand soloing as more than just playing licks
  • Learn to analyze note choices and phrasing
  • Develop critical thinking about solo construction
  • Develop country guitar soloing skills
Release date: 09/14/2016 • 3h 01m runtime
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Sample lessons
Flat Pickin' Lick For C Shape
Flat Pickin' Lick For C Shape
Demonstration
Bending Lick For E Shape
Bending Lick For E Shape
Demonstration
Double Stop Lick For A Shape
Double Stop Lick For A Shape
Demonstration
Behind the Nut Bending
Behind the Nut Bending
Concept 3

What's included

53 lessons • 27 charts • 21 Jam Tracks

Play Country Guitar 6: Soloing Principles
Welcome to Play Country Guitar 6: Soloing Principles for intermediate to late Intermediate students of Country guitar.

This Country Learning Path core course is presented by 6 top TrueFire educators: Carl Verheyen, Jason Loughlin, Johnny Hiland, Joe Dalton, Ladd Smith, and Jim Campilongo.

The Soloing Principles curriculum is comprised of select Country guitar lessons from the educators' existing TrueFire course libraries.

Solid rhythm chops may get you the gig but it's your soloing chops that gets you the spotlight and the opportunity to electrify the audience with your musicality. Creativity, technique, and vocabulary are the essential skills you'll need to master the art of improvisation and develop into a great soloist. The video guitar lessons in this core course will equip you with the requisite tools and guidance to take your soloing skills to the next level.

Play Country Guitar 6: Soloing Principles is organized into 2 Sections. In the first Section, you'll work through 29 lessons from a variety of TrueFire country guitar educators who will present essential soloing concepts and techniques. In the second Section, the educators will guide you through 7 soloing performance studies applying many of the techniques and concepts from the first Section. The educators will demonstrate the soloing performances 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 Concepts
In this first section, you'll work through 29 lessons from a variety of TrueFire country guitar educators who will present essential soloing concepts and techniques including pedal steel bends, flat picking, embellishing the melody, harmonics, honky tonk, and much more.

TIP! Soloing is more than just licks. You need to understand the correlation between phrasing, melody and harmony. Becoming a good soloist is as much if not more mental than physical.

When you are working on various soloing concepts, ask yourself questions like - What chords will this approach work over? What groove or feel does this solo fit best over? What is the best note choice for this part? How can I get from here to there in the solo? Are there other scale options? Does my solo have a beginning, a middle and an end? - Or am I just rambling on.

Asking yourself these questions as you are beginning to build up your soloing chops will help make sure you are really thinking about what you are playing and working on. If you put in the time on this now, it will eventually lead you to the ultimate place for soloists where you won't have to think about any of it at all - you just play!
Using Variation in Leads
Using Variation in Leads - Overview is a video guitar lesson presented by Jason Loughlin and is sourced from 1-2-3 Country.

Composition devices are key to developing a solo in an organic way. Look what Beethoven was able to accomplish in his fifth symphony with just two notes. To me, this is the height of great improvisation. The four devices I most commonly use are repetition, retrograde, octave displacement and articulation. Repetition can be applied to a whole lick or just a piece of a lick. Retrograde means to play a melody backwards. Don't stress about it being note for note, any approximation will do the trick. Octave displacement is my favorite one. Try putting a lick in a different octave. Try taking just a few notes of a lick and put them up or down an octave. Articulation is one we all take for granted. I'm referring to slides, hammer ons, pull offs and bends. If there's a lick you normally bend try sliding. If there is a note you usually pick then try bending into it instead. Most players never put the ideas they already know through the paces, trying every variation. There is so much music in the simplest ideas. Your solos will be more cohesive as a result.
Flat Pickin' Licks
Flat Pickin' Licks - Overview is a video guitar lesson presented by Jason Loughlin and is sourced from 1-2-3 Country.

Our first lead approach is flat pickin'. It's essential for any country player to be able to flat pick through chord changes. We are going to learn three classic flat pickin' licks that are commonly used in bluegrass and country guitar playing. These licks are used by players like Doc Watson, Clarence White and Albert Lee as springboards for developing their own ideas. We'll use our chord shapes as templates to help us target chord tones. We're going to connect the chord tones using major scales, mixolydian scales, half step approach notes and chromatic runs.
Flat Pickin' Lick For E Shape
Flat Pickin' Lick For E Shape - Demonstration is a video guitar lesson presented by Jason Loughlin and is sourced from 1-2-3 Country.

The lead lick over the E chord shape has us starting on the root and moving up a major pentatonic scale. We're using the b3rd and b7th as passing tones.
Flat Pickin' Lick For A Shape
Flat Pickin' Lick For A Shape - Demonstration is a video guitar lesson presented by Jason Loughlin and is sourced from 1-2-3 Country.

Our second flat picking lick is over the common A chord shape. This is a classic Doc Watson lick that can be heard on Black Mountain Rag. We start by embellishing the 3rd and 5th by dancing around them with a half step approach to the 3rd and a scale step above the 5th. The second half of the lick walks down the mixolydian scale.
Flat Pickin' Lick For C Shape
Flat Pickin' Lick For C Shape - Demonstration is a video guitar lesson presented by Jason Loughlin and is sourced from 1-2-3 Country.

This last flat pickin' lick is over the C chord shape. We start with a chromatic run that connects the 5th and 3rd. Then we use the major pentatonic to descend through the chord shape with a b7th thrown in as a passing tone.

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wholmer

12/27/20

Good Course not just for beginners. This course provides jamming tracks to play the licks over and I found that to be very helpful. Plus, the licks are in different positions on the neck. The lessons helped me with extending my lick vocabulary. I am a lot more excited about jamming now that I played through these lessons!

Lotharius

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07/11/20

Perfect for learning country guitar

musuri1966

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07/10/20

Getting my country on.

I’m enjoying learning how to chicken pick, it’s a style I have yet to grasp. But this course is helping me a great deal achieve that skill and sound.

tonylaurent

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07/05/20

Play Country 6: Soloing principles

A great way to get essentail country licks into your repetoire if you need that extra sauce that country brings to your technique. Part 1 introduces techniques and these are followed up in part 2 with solid soling examples from top Trufire teachers, highly recommended.

JohnSmithers

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06/27/20

The nuts and bolts of soloing

This course offers a good overview of the techniques needed for country soloing.It goes over each style and is easy to follow.The lessons are thorough and you can learn them at your own pace.A good introduction to an essential style.

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