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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn a country rhythm and lead (with several classic blues licks thrown in) that you can play by yourself on acoustic or electric guitar. This lesson demonstrates how to play lead over chord changes using the major pentatonic scale.
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Love the sound of the Tele. This one looks like a lot of fun and some really great stuff to learn. Thanks Brian
Hey Brian I loved the lesson. Can you give me some tips on playing this so it flows smoothly. I can play it along with you till you get to the second part at the 12th fret. I can play the run but not smoothly. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Ken
just practise and rework lots of time, it grows automaticly
Wow this looks fun and a good work out thanks
JohnStrat
Very nice playing Brian! I thought I heard a little James Burton on that closing lick.
Say Brian, great lesson, nice double stops and a mix as you explained in the intro.. certainly something for me to enjoy for practice! Also thank you always for tone/amps gear etc intros.. very useful as always! So happy for be both of us here! Simply awesome to watch learn and if I can try to share what you teach me here!
For someone that doesnt reallly get into the country I thought this was really cool. I think I need to start taking each piece on its own merit, and expand my tiny wee brain muscle. Great playing Brian, I love never knowing whats comming next.
Brian, your lessons are soooooooo inspiring !!!
Another great lesson Brian! This will be a fun week learning this one. You have the perfect Telecaster tone going on with this tune. Thanks!
Do not like this country blues lesson. waste of a week.
Not my cup of tea.
Really liked the Chicago Blues lesson and the Clapton Blues lessons.
You serious?? This is one of my favorites.
Having a bit of “country tone” in your repertoire is like having a crescent wrench in you toolbox.
This one sounds like a lot of fun! Thanks Brian!
What I like Brian is the variety you provide week in week out I love the blues but also like anything else that improve s my guitar playing this weeks lesson is a perfect example of that I love everything about it so keep them coming cheers.
I would not consider myself a country music fan by all means but it does grow on me – I increasingly enjoy playing a little country blues from time to time and recently started getting into EP259, so this is right down my alley. Thank you Brian for the cornucopia of styles and ideas you challenge us with every week!
Wow, this is a beauty Brian,
I love this melody, what a fun song to listen to, and I’m learning some really great techniques too.
Thanks Brian,
Ray
NICE! Now the choice for the July change is even harder. My inner Don Rich is screaming at me… might have to put off the funk choice i had made.
I’m new here, and this is only my second “weekly video,” but I’m loving it. I’d just like to remind everyone than sometimes “country music is not exactly country music”. Take Mark Knofler for example. Most wouldn’t consider him a country – style artist, yet many of his songs would have to fall into this category.
Such as EVH on Finish What You Started…
I like this one very much, Brian. You have a wonderful “feel” for different styles. Also, I have mentioned creating names rather than numbers for some of your compositions, because sometimes I forget which pieces I have been working on when I sit down to play. I know Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do is in my repertory, but EP314? So I have named your recent minor key composition EP314 as follows: The Death Of Tsar Nicholas II. Cheers.
“The Death of Tsar Nicholas II” – whoa… intense! I like it. The main reason I don’t name these is for search purposes on YouTube – I have to title them what people will be searching, so they can find it. For example, a lot more people that are looking for guitar instruction would search something like , “country blues guitar lesson” than, “The Death of Tsar Nicholas II” 🙂 That said, I think it’d be awesome if you gave each one a name. 🙂
I’ve started naming them once they are in my head and my fingers, and i pick something that i can remember. Example EP297 i call Shes Never Coming Back Again because it sounds like the hook in that tune.
Great teaching Brian. Love the sound of this.
I loved this lesson. However, I found that full bend at the end a challenge on my acoustic, so I just moved up a half step for a half bend and that seemed to do the trick. I really like the country lessons a lot, especially those pedal steel sounds you work in. Those have been a revelation.
Not really a country kind a guy but I am really enjoying this.
thank you for this lesson
A great moment of country …
you could even do another micro lesson
with the “”bending technique ” for measures 21 to 24.
There would be a lot to do
phil
I hear James Burton in there too. New guitar? What’s the story with it?
Me too ..also hear Kieth Richards especially the last section.. what a classic bunch of fine licks for any repertoire.. Another A+ WEEKLY LESSON!
I enjoy the variety of lessons that you provide and it makes the guitar lessons so much fun.
Thank you.
Wow, another great piece of music that I am about to attempt to replicate (much to the disgust of my neighbours!)
I do like these ‘stand alone’ pieces that suit acoustic as well as amplified guitars – all I have is a battered acoustic – and it is so nice to be able to sit down and play something without an accompanying track.
It is wonderful, also, to have different types of music to play. I adore the blues of course, it is such a musically satisfying genre and remains my favourite but I also value the opportunity to attempt to play outside of this musical area hence examples of jazz or country, for example, are most welcome.
Thank you Brian reminds me of New Riders of the purple Sage.
This one is super rad! Keep up the good work man.
Great lesson. One of my favorites so far. Has some really great licks. Sounds like a bit Pete Anderson influence in there. Love it.
Absolutely awesome piece of music, it’s coming together just right and just want to thank you Brian for all your help , there are times when I feel I’m going backwards but then my fingers do what they are supposed to do and it’s down to the tips and techniques you show us all , cheers mate
I love the country stuff, and this is one of my favorites. I would love to see a country licks lesson. Also (and probably more importantly), a lesson that further explores transitioning scales pattern mid-solo to play the chord changes. That one section when you go from E to B is really the key (no pun intended) to understanding the fretboard and soloing (not that I do, yet). Anyway, keep the country stuff coming!
Awesome lesson. My telecaster and I have been waiting for a solo country electric piece. More like this please.
Thanks Brian,
A great opportunity to learn Country guitar since many friends and son in laws love it.
Regards,
Jim
Love it Brian – thank you. Here a bit of Robbie Robertson in the sus2 licks.
Love it Brian – thank you. Hear a bit of Robbie Robertson in the sus2 licks.
Why can I not PRINT the tab from SOUNDSLICE anymore!? The tab provided at the top of the page does not contain the standard music notation!! What happened!?
Sorry, I see that SOUNDSLICE has just added more to the options, and needed to scroll down more. Thanks.
Love this ,
You are an amazing player and teacher. This lesson is currently ruling my world!
Wow, this is terrific!
This would fit I’ll Cry Instead (Beatles) perfectly although I am not sure I could get it up to speed with my friend’s cover of this. Any suggestions on how I could adapt it?
Thanks Brian,
Still working on this one, I’m such a slow learner!
I’ve adapted this one as my “Six days” in E solo hehe
spud
Love the country solo lessons! Thanks Brian!
Loved It 🙂
Reminds me of Danny Gatton- if that ain’t a compliment- what is?
Strangely, I played rhythm guitar in church for years but no lead. So at first, several months ago when I started with these lessons, it was the lead parts that were awkward. But that comes fairly quickly now. I’m struggling more with getting the right hand stuff correct. So this kind of lesson was ver helpful because it made me get the rhythm rather than cheat like I’ve been doing at times. This one is super fun. I just can’t believe Brian can come up with these things so often.