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Slow, Country Harmonized Lead Guitar Lesson – EP551

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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn a slow country style lead that uses harmonized 3rds and harmonized 6ths. Learn how to incorporate these techniques into your lead when you improvise.

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  4. houliAK says

    One of your greatest strengths is your ability to articulate your examples in an organized, understandable way. I may not be able to execute the ideas initially but I understand and can almost predict why you use the improvised idea. It also helps that Im a long time member and you repeat things. I hope you never get tired of articulating and repeating because it has changed the way I play and look at the fret board. I am forever grateful!

    • Rob M says

      Yes! Thanks for bringing up these key benefits of Brian’s style of teaching. Repetition of concepts is critical for me to fully absorb the material, AND I feel like I’m making progress when I already know the answer some times. That’s rewarding, even as my fingers continue to lag. My wife’s a talented piano player and a natural with music. She sometimes listens in on the lessons and really likes Brian’s approach. That’s high praise, let me tell you #;-).

  5. Max d says

    Yes, good stuff Brian. Thank you. As you touched on mixolydian mode… , would you give another in-depth tut on modes and especially give some more guidance on playing Grateful Dead / Weir/ Garcia – style lead and rhythm?

  6. Robert K says

    Yup. This one’s good. I’m missing your lessons on playing rhythm that you haven’t done for ages. This one puts me in mind of those with the double stops. How about some more of those? After all, most of what even a lead player actually plays is rhythm and doing it well is hard. Plus you taught it so well. Whaddya say?…

  8. Laurel C says

    Every week is a treat to help make us better players and master the fretboard if that is even possible, but most of all learn new arrangements and connectivity. Yes to the future video idea of ‘anything you are looking for is one fret left or one fret right’ and all the other stuff within the area you are in. Look forward to your insights and breakdown in seeing these multi-layered areas of the fretboard simplified.

  23. Jason R says

    Loved it!! Any chance you could include a suggested listening based on the lesson? You have such an incredible amount of musical knowledge, and I’d love to listen to a full song by someone that uses something like this. Thank you!

  27. Steven B says

    The way this lesson connects leads to chord shapes is the key to progress for me. And the statement that everything is always in reach is really astounding. Please expand on how to find extensions in the same vicinity on the neck in a progression. Its so hard to know how to embellish a progression with say a diminished chord for example.
    What a great lesson this is!

  28. Joel R says

    Hello Brian .
    Great sound and explanations here .
    When you play over backtrack , the sound is very clear , you do not hear for instance , the sound of
    your fingers when you slide on strings ,that you can hear when you are explaining.
    I know that a part of the answer is that you are ( of course) a great musician .
    But maybe there is a trick in your recording to avoid sound parasites.
    May be it will take for me the next 30 years to play like that …..
    Anyway , let me know.
    Joe.

  30. jimvince says

    Brian, near the end of Part 2 you say it’s “exhausting to explain it all” 😀 – I get that, but
    You sure do a great job doing it! 👍👏. Other web sites and “teachers” can’t match you 👏

  31. James W says

    A lot of the lessons in the last year heave really helped me ‘master’ the fretboard. Still a lot of practice to make it just stick, but I really do appreciate the guidance and teaching, examples and practice materials. Happy new year, looking forward to each and every week.

  33. David S says

    Brian, Really liked this lesson.Hope you keep doing these. Love the 3rds & 6ths and playing the chords.Keep up the good work. Looks like you finally have fought off all the effects of Covid.
    You look and sound like your old self. Thanks for all you do Dave

  35. Mel T says

    iv been trying to get more milage out of the S,D angle
    trying to figure out how to remember alllll of the triads
    i realy wish some one had of showed me this 40 yr’s ago
    barchords I Got them,Power chords i got that
    triads never learned them so this is a MeGGa Power Ball all at once
    Triads are easy just cant remember them like the 40 yrs of baring LoL
    But Im all over it…&..I Love this

  38. Colin B says

    I’ve mostly been playing around with your blues stuff. But, I love country too and especially the steel guitar sound. This is my favorite lesson of all so far. My playing skills have a long way to grow but hope to see more like this in the future. Many thanks.

    –Colin–

  40. Glenn S says

    This piece is so beautiful. The melody and harmonies. The crying guitar sound. I am beside myself. It’s now in my learning que. Learning from you through your site is the best musical investment I have ever given myself.

  41. JB says

    Brian. I’m going to bed. I have been at this for three days now. Man good stuff though. Really it is. I had an older brethren in my church a while back asked me. Do you play alot when you are at home? I do, or I try was my response. Maybe when you get at a point where your playing is so good that you can ease back on practicing. Alot of times, when watching tv with the wife. I sometime have a guitar in my hand. Only I can hear it. But I try to always keep a guitar close by. When I was traveling alot, I always had my guitar with me. I once told a friend’s son. He would play when he got up, play before going to school, played when he got home, played before going to bed. I told him life will come around, one day, you may be married and have kids and not get as much free time playing. Sometimes the other person gets somewhat jealous when you spend alot of time with your guitar. No matter how or where you see yourself in your skill level. That guitar is going to be only as good as the time you spend with it.

  42. Henry P says

    I’ve come back to this piece over and over. Somehow it expresses my sadness at what is happening in my country today – and a longing for something better. This is the first time I feel like I can express myself on the guitar. Thank you for all this, Brian.

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