These lessons will teach you to make the most of your regular chords. We'll learn 9 Major chord inversions and 9 Minor chord inversions and put them into real time. This will put real spice in your rhythm and lead guitar.

Basic chords in a few keys are used to show some basic country embellishment techniques.

Shows how to approach playing various single note embellishments within barre chords.

This tutorial explains basic arpeggiation: arpeggio means "broken chord". When you break chords down, you put together some of the nicest progressions and riffs in the style.

The 12 Bar Blues form is important to the country style. Don't worry, we won't turn you into a bluesman. Learning the form is an essential part of country music. You'll learn the chords and counts to the form as well as how to play the chords so that you are still being true to the country style. You will still be playing from the same ground that raises all country music. In this ground, however, you'll be raising a new garden!

This tutorial throws all of our chords into the mix. You will no longer single a particular chord form (open, barre, power) out for a riff. You will combine them into riffs that you'd hear on stages and radio stations. It's time to master the chord forms using great riffs.

These lessons focus on creating great country riffs using only power chords. The power chord was a staple of blues, rock and pop music long before country artists got a hold of them. These chords changed the sound and feel of the genre. These lessons will give your hands and ears the tools needed to master this essential tool.

Now that we have a grip on some riffs that use only power chords, it is time to put them to the test and see how well you really know them. We will combine these chords with open and barre chords into riffs that will test your ability to jump in and out of making each voicing. You will become a stronger player and have a deeper insight into how these voicings create great country riffs.

These lessons are less thorough in explaining particular techniques and more in depth in their combinations of techniques. They are a true test to your ears and your eyes, so use them as such. It's okay for it to go slowly. That's the way you accomplish the skills you need to be stage ready. These skills will come more quickly the more you do this. That's a fact.

These lessons will combine all of the fundamentals we've studied into stage ready progresssions. We'll use: open chords, barre chords, power chords, strumming, ghost strumming, boom-chick strumming, arpeggiation, and muting and more. Putting these in combinations with each other means you are getting stronger as a player and you are that much closer to being ready to go and play with others.

So far, we've tackled one technique at a time when learning the basics of country rhythm guitar. It's time to take it up a notch and combine the techniques to show how they work together to form great country rhythm ideas. We'll use open chords, boom chick strumming and ghost strums to demostrate great modern country rhythm.

There are 3 chords in the 12 Bar Blues Form. When you treat each chord as if it were its own key, you can create great riffs around each key. We will walk you through many examples of how this is done and put you on the path to hearing and creating your own great ideas.

These lessons will define what a riff is and teach you how riffs are pulled out of chord progressions. Knowing chords and being able to remember chord progressions is a must to get the most from this series. Riffs are career-makers for country guitarists - so let's put the pedal to the metal and get some great ones under our belt!

Country music has a great library of classic lead guitar licks. Some of these licks borrow heavily from the blues. The main focus of these lessons will be the tool that is the staple of blues lead guitar: The Minor Pentatonic Scale. We will discuss how to apply this scale to the progression you are playing and create great riffs using the scale. The concept of lead guitar is discussed further in the next level of the Country style, but this will give you a taste of what is to come. It's an essential way that country music borrows from the blues.

Power chords were a staple of rock and blues music long before country music found this treasure chest that makes old standards sound modern. In this series we will use power chords exclusively so that you can incorporate them into your playing and make them a standard part of your vocabulary.

In our study of how country music borrows from the blues, we've learned that country music borrows the 12 bar blues form. In this tutorial, however, we will see that country music doesn't always use the 12 bar form. Many times it uses a simple note, bend or chord form that makes part of the song sound bluesy. It's part blues, all country and all style in these lessons.

This tutorial will give you the basic scale shapes needed to play in any key on the entire neck.

Learning the basic rhythmic subdivisions of 8th notes, triplets and 16th notes is the basis for solid pickin'. Practicing the CAGED system using these rhythms will supercharge your chops and make learning licks easier.

These lessons put the rubber on the road. It's time to learn licks that use everything we've learned so far: CAGED scales, rhythmic subdivisions, articulations and playing in real time. Here are some of the licks that built Nashville.

This tutorial will give you a better chord vocabulary. No longer will those pesky 7s, 11s, 13s and so forth be a mystery to you. This tutorial will get you ready for the progressions that follow.

This series of lesson will give you the basic preparation to start making licks of the CAGED scales. We'll learn techniques that give your licks feel and style.

This tutorial covers many exercises and ways of speeding up your pick and fingers. Use these exercises to build the chops necessary to play hot licks, scales and riffs.

Hybrid picking is a hybrid of using a pick and using the fingers to get a snappy, chicken picking sound. This series of lessons will get you started with solid techniques that will get your hybrid picking fundamentals down.

In this series of eight lessons, Andy Gurley will introduce you to the picking styles of Chet Atkins and Merle Travis. First up is the basic picking hand motion, then you'll start developing the use of your thumb. Adding finger syncopation is next, then we'll examine a progression using our basic pattern. Then it's time to develop independence with your fingers and thumb, and we'll conclude with some moveable shapes and final thoughts.

There's nothing more important than knowing how to kick off a song. In this lesson series we'll explore how to build and play your own country introductions.

In this lesson series we'll explore how to create and play the ending to many country songs using techniques learned so far in the course.

This series of lessons will give you what you need to know about the country fill. We'll look at common fills using the scales and chords you know.

In these lessons you'll be putting all of our new chords into real time examples. It's time to put these chords into action and find out why country guitar sounds great when using these techniques.

Functional Harmony and the Nashville Number System are the foundations to country songwriting, session work and gigging. Here is a brief look at both.

Examples of different country riffs, demonstrated with progressions, covering what's been demonstrated so far in this chapter.

There is an undisputable blues taste to Country Music. Just how important is the blues when it comes to learning to play country guitar? We'll interview two of Nashville's stringslingers to find out why Stevie Ray is as important as Billy Ray when it comes to chicken pickin' and country music.

In this tutorial we'll give you an overview of the Telecaster, Strat, and Les Paul tone controls and pickups, plus getting tones from an acoustic guitar. Each of these guitars are commonly used in country music, and in these lessons you'll get an idea of how they sound and the role they play in country music.

In these lessons we take a look at amplifier setups in order to achieve great country tone. We'll introduce you to both tube and solid state amps, then learn about EQ controls and how equalization affects your tone. We'll demonstrate volume controls and how volume changes tone as well, then look at various settings you can use on your amp.

Yes, effects are used in country music! Here we'll travel down a chain of commonly used effects in country music and hear how each can affect your tone. We'll teach you some ways you can use and tweak overdrive, compression, chorus, delay, tremolo, phaser, and a volume pedal to achieve killer country tone.

This tutorial contains lessons on some miscellaneous components that will affect the tones to get in your country playing. We'll hear how using a pick affects your tone, then how things sound when you play with your fingers. We'll get into the sound of the slide next, then look at the use of a capo.

in this lesson series we will learn a traditional country progression, techniques to play that progression, tone and equipment choices to sound like the masters, and who to check out to hear examples of great Traditional Country music.

In this series of lessons we'll explore some of the techniques and equipment necessary to play in the Brent Mason style. We'll show you a couple of example licks that use hybrid picking, inversions, and arpeggiation, and talk about how to get that Brent Mason style tone.

In this series of lessons we'll check out the best players to hear in order to learn the Western Swing style and the way to play a chord progression using the right techniques and equipment for this style.

In this series, the guitarist will know how to treat a chord progression in the style of masters Chet Atkins and Merle Travis and what choices to make to play this style with great tone and equipment. This series also gives a great list of references so that you know which players and recordings to check out to master this style.

In this lesson series we'll look at masters of the Modern Country style and learn which techniques and equipment to use to transform any chord progression into a Modern Country masterpiece.

I have received e-mails from subscribers requesting more lessons on double-stops similar to what was done on the lesson for the Wabash Cannonball. This song Wildwood Flower is the next in the series.

Red Wing is an old American traditional fiddle tune which for this tutorial series has been arranged and adapted to the guitar. This arrangement greatly takes advantage of the use of hammers and pulloffs in order to play it. The learner will understand the differences between split string and adjacent string pulloffs.

This tutorial on chicken pickin' was inspired by a subscriber in the forum although I've been meaning to do this for a while. I'll show you these concepts followed by a lick in the style of their creators. One method is the popular hybrid pickin' concept and the other method uses the flat pick. Next I'll cover what chicken pickin' is today and share some licks that every chicken picker should know.

This tutorial on basic hybrid picking exercises was inspired by a young man who asked me how to get started hybrid picking. I'll show you a variety of exercises that you can do to develop your hybrid picking. In the first five lessons I'll show you some basic exercises using the A, G, E, C, and D chords. Next I'll show you a couple using barre chords, and then how to alternate the bass notes using the A, D, C, and B chords.

This tutorial on basic hybrid picking exercises was inspired by a young man who asked me how to get started hybrid picking. I'll show you a variety of exercises that you can do to develop your hybrid picking. In the first five lessons I'll show you some basic exercises using the A, G, E, C, and D chords. Next I'll show you a couple using barre chords, and then how to alternate the bass notes using the A, D, C, and B chords.

This tutorial of hybrid picking exercises was inspired by pickers I've met while performing, and they wanted to know how to get started hybrid picking. These five easy exercises are all root/5 picking patterns, with alternating bass notes. First I'll show you exercises using E, and then A barre chord formations. Then I'll show you similar exercises using the other basic chords.

This tutorial of hybrid picking exercises was inspired by pickers I've met while performing, and they wanted to know how to get started hybrid picking. These five easy exercises are all root/5 picking patterns, with alternating bass notes. First I'll show you exercises using E, and then A barre chord formations. Then I'll show you similar exercises using the other basic chords.

This hybrid picking progression in A was inspired by the basic hybrid picking exercises, to show how adding other concepts to the exercises can make some awesome riffs. First I'll show you the riffs using the 1, 4, and 5 chords in the key of A. I'll also talk about palm muting, and then play them in a progression.

This tutorial on playing in thirds was inspired when I was trying to think of useful concepts, that would teach some basic ideas for starting to solo. I've put together 4 combinations, and used these shapes in eight positions. I'll play the notes at the same time, and then I'll split them up. I'm starting in the 3rd fret, and I'll move it up to the 15th fret using the musical alphabet.

This tutorial on the Boom-Chick Strumming pattern was inspired by our site to show you how useful it is. In the first four lessons I show you the pattern using the 1, 4, and 5 chord in the key of A, followed by a progression in the next lesson. I change to a 16th note pattern with a D chord in the fifth lesson, and then finish up with a D progression using the 16th note strumming pattern.

By the end of this tutorial you should be able to combine the boom-chick strumming technique with barre chords rooted on the E string.

This double stop progression was inspired by some pickers I've met while performing, and they wanted to know how I put these licks together. The first one is mostly double stops, but there are hammer ons, pull offs, even string bending in the next three. I'll show you the licks in the 1, 4, and 5 chords, and play them with the "Med A 1-4-5 Progression Jam" in our jam station.

This double stops tutorial was inspired by some pickers I met on the road, they all wanted to know how I was playing these licks. The first two lessons are a 1, 4, 5 progression in G, and then I'll show you a few double stop tricks. I'll also combine some other techniques like string bending, with the hybrid picking licks, and then a G progression using open chords.

This B-bender guitar tutorial was inspired by a subscriber in the forum, that had recently gotten one of theses guitars. In the first lesson I'll describe this device, tell you how it works, and use it to complete an A chord. Then I'll show you a two finger bending combination, and then the same one using a bar instead. Both of these concept's are useful, and can lead to some great licks.

This tutorial on B-bender guitar was inspired by a subscriber in the forum, that had recently gotten one of these guitars. I'll show you several ways to use a B-bender with open chords, and how it works with E formation barre chords. Next a few ways to use it with a G chord, and then the A formation barre chords. Some of these only work with a whole tone bend, and others only work with a half tone bend.

This tutorial on string bending was inspired by a few subscribers in the forum, that wanted to know how to start bending strings. I started with useful tips, followed by sixteen lessons using whole tone bends on the B string. In the first eight I'm bending the 2nd note of the scale up to the 3rd. In the next eight I'm bending the 4th note of the scale up to the 5th, and close with tips on how to use them.

This tutorial on string bending was inspired by a few subscribers in the forum, that wanted to learn how to bend strings. I'll show you two ways to bend the string in the first lesson, and give you some tips using both of them. The next eight are all whole tone bending positions on the G string, starting with an A bend in the 4th fret, up to the A bend an octave higher in the 16th fret.

This tutorial on string bending was inspired by a few subscribers in the forum, they wanted to learn how to bend strings. I'll show you some useful tips, and eight whole tone bending positions on the G string. I'm starting with a G bend in the 5th fret, and going up to the G bend an octave higher. Then close with tips on how to use them, and how they all work together.

This tutorial on bending the flat 7 up to the 1 was inspired by my other string bending tutorials. I'll show you the bend in A, and then use it with other whole tone bends. I'll show you some steel guitar licks, and then how to bend a scale. After a few bending combinations, prebend some strings, and then I'll put it in reverse. Finally, I'll close with some useful tips about how to use this in other keys.

This tutorial on prebending strings was inspired by all the other string bending tutorials, and all the legendary guitarists that use this concept. In the first lesson I'll mention a few of them, then show a couple of examples using this trick. Then I use bending positions that work with the 1, 4, and 5 chords in the key of A, and also talk a little about how palm muting works with this too.

This tutorial on prebending strings was inspired by all the other string bending tutorials, and all the legendary guitarists that use this concept. In these lessons I'm sliding up a whole step to the note, prebending the string up to the same note, and releasing the bend. Put these together for a 1, 4, 5, 1 progression in the key of A.

This tutorial on string bending behind the nut was inspired by a previous tutorial on B bender guitar. I'll show you how to do this with the left hand, and also using the right hand. Then I'll show you how this works with open chords, and also the barre chord positions. Some of these will work by bending the string a whole tone, and some work by bending the string up only a half tone.

This tutorial on string bending behind the nut was inspired by a previous tutorial on this technique. I'll show you how to do it with the left hand, and also the right hand. Then I'll show you how it works with open chords, and also barre chord positions. Some of these work by bending the string up a whole tone, and others work by bending the string up only a half tone.

This series of lessons, Ned Luberecki will detail the technique used by guitar players to emulate the fingerpicked roll style made famous on the banjo. First you will learn how to do basic rolls, then we'll look at a forward roll within a chord progression. Last we'll look at banjo rolls using a regular pick.

In this lesson series we'll walk you throught the basics of the Bluegrass style with a couple of rhythm examples and the necessities of your music collection to get started with this style.

In these lessons we'll learn the basic G run and then show you how to create variations based on the run. From the very simple to the mindblowingly complex, this run will change how you play (excuse me, "pick") the guitar.

In these nine lessons, Ned Luberecki demonstrates how to play the classic country "lead-in" line to walk into another chord. First you'll learn the basics of how to walk into chords, then Ned will show you how to do this in several different keys. As we get to the end of the tutorial, Ned will show how to walk into minor chords, then with some common progessions.

In these nine lessons, Ned Luberecki demonstrates how to play the classic country "lead-in" line to walk into another chord. First you'll learn the basics of how to walk into chords, then Ned will show you how to do this in several different keys. As we get to the end of the tutorial, Ned will show how to walk into minor chords, then with some common progessions.

In this set of lessons, you'll learn to add upstrokes to your strumming. This will open new possibilities in adding fun and groove to your playing. You'll also learn some classic ornamentation techniques that will give your playing a real country flavor.

Bass runs and other easy ornamentations give your strumming a very country-ish flavor. In this tutorial, you'll learn a variety of runs, and apply them in a variety of time signatures and rhythmic feels.

Learn the foundational skills of guitar strumming. The techniques you learn in this tutorial will set you up to become a master guitar strummer. This tutorial presents skills in a country music context, but these skills are equally powerful in virtually any contemporary guitar music style.

Your band is waiting for you to tune up and play! These Song Projects allow you to put all your strumming skills to work, with four song arrangements to master.

In this set of lessons, we get to the most powerful and versatile strumming rhythms. Learn these techniques well, and you'll be able to become a strong solid strummer in nearly any guitar style.

The so-called "Ghost Strum" is an essential component of country style guitar strumming. Learn to incorporate this important skill into your country chops.

So far we've been using our acoustic guitar as accompaniment and our electric guitar as a combination of accompaniment and lead. But some of the electric tools will work on acoustic as well and that's what we're going to start exploring in this tutorial.

In the previous tutorial you got a basic introduction to country lead playing on acoustic guitar. In this tutorial we're going to venture further into this terrain with some more cool licks, tricks and tools.

Up until now we've kept rhythm and lead playing very separate, but now that you have a basic understanding of both of these skill sets it's time to start exploring how the two can overlap and work together.

In this tutorial we'll explore some more fills and variations you can add to your basic country strumming. Some of these have to do with bass lines walking into and out of the chord changes and some of them are fills that can be used to fill in the space between vocal phrases or to mark the end of a section. This requires quite a bit of both left and right hand precision, but you'll need to dig into that hard work sooner or later, so you may as well get started on it right now.

When you play a full barre chord there are actually many more notes than you really need. In this tutorial we'll look at how to strip down your full barre-chords to smaller versions of each chord known as "triads" and how you can use those in your electric country rhythm playing.

We've already explored some basic of examples of how rhythm and lead playing can sometimes overlap, and now it's time to take that concept one step further by looking at different ways to embellish your basic chords and rhythm parts in a Country context.

One of the most common lead tools used in country is called "chicken picking", and it refers to a percussive right hand technique that I'm sure you'll recognize the sound of. It's a really great sound, but it does require a whole new right hand technique where you combine the regular use of your pick with your right hand fingers.

So far we've been improvising with a combination of single notes, triads and pedal steel licks, and now it's time to explore another crucial component in the classic country sound. This sound comes from deliberately picking two notes at a time, and the sound is commonly referred to as "double stops".

In this tutorial we'll explore an extremely useful trick that you can use in your lead playing to obtain a slightly jazzier sound. This trick revolves around chord tones and arpeggios and uses the half step below each of these.

In this tutorial we'll explore some more classic country licks. Up until now we've mostly stayed with our left hand in one position at a time and moved up and down in a vertical scale pattern to improvise. At this point we're going to start venturing more and more into licks that move horizontally on the neck rather than just going up and down between the floor and the ceiling. I call this a "horizontal approach", and although it can be a little confusing at first, you'll also realize how this can open up the whole neck for you and unlock a whole new vault of super cool country licks.

So far we've mainly used our major pentatonic scale pattern as the basis for all of our soloing, and then we've thrown in tension notes to spice it up. Now it's time to explore how you can use a full scale pattern to add tension, and instead use single key notes from the major pentatonic pattern to resolve this tension. We'll be soloing over a chord progression in a major key, and the tense scale pattern will be the minor pentatonic.

Now it's time to explore the next level of using double stops in your country soloing. It is possible to use these licks with regular flat picking, but they definitely sound more Country when you use combine your pick and your right hand fingers. This technique is called "Hybrid Picking", and it will require a great deal of focus, while you're trying to learn the new double stop licks.

In the first level of this country course we explored some of the most basic versions of pedal steel licks on electric guitar. You can get a lot of mileage out of even the simplest pedal steel vocabulary, but there is no limit to how far you can eventually take this concept. It can be used in everything from tasteful rhythm parts to blazing solos, and in this tutorial we'll explore the next level of pedal steel vocabulary on electric guitar.

Anders will explore the top 3 strings of the A major pentatonic scale. He'll use the A major barre chord with the root on the 6th string and make a basic Country lead pattern.

In the previous chapter we explored the wonderful world of pedal steel vocabulary on electric guitar. We used the basic vocabulary in more of a rhythm guitar context, so in this tutorial we'll explore that same vocabulary in a lead context. This will once again challenge your bending technique, but it will also open up a whole new world of interesting sounds in your lead playing.

A crucial cornerstone in the classic Country sound is the pedal steel guitar. This is a whole different instrument to play, but in this tutorial we'll look at some simple ways to emulate the sound of a pedal steel guitar on our regular electric guitar.

Anders starts exploring the concept of "licks" as a language of musical statements. He takes the ideas learned in previous course tutorials and show you how to use them as the building blocks as a starting point for your own country style improvisation.

Anders shows how basic triads can be used a basic introduction to playing solos and lead parts in a Country context.

In this tutorial we're going to explore the next level of using triads in your Country soloing. Just like it's the case with many of the other topics we cover there's virtually no end to how advanced you can get with a topic like this. So this will just be another step on your long, but exciting journey towards becoming a ripping country guitar player. And to make the deal even sweeter, understanding how to use triads in your soloing will benefit you in any style of music that you want to play down the road.

Anders will show you show to add more flavor to you country lead guitar playing using chromatic notes to the basic pentatonic scales in order to add "tension" or "spice".

Now that you're familiar with the basic foundation that most country songs are built on, which is the acoustic guitar strumming chords, it's time start exploring how an electric guitar might compliment these basic parts. Although the electric and acoustic guitars are similar in many ways, the roles they play within the band are very different. The acoustic guitar covers the basic harmony, so the electric guitar is actually more of a rhythm instrument in this context.

Country music ultimately comes down to an acoustic guitar. That's where almost every song starts, and being able to play a solid acoustic rhythm guitar part for a Country song is more valuable than any other skill you can acquire in this world. In this first tutorial we'll dig into some more advanced right hand work.

In this tutorial we're going to explore how to incorporate more rhythm guitar arpeggios into your country rhythm guitar playing in some fun and useful examples.

Introducing common strumming patterns in Country, applied to a one chord groove. Start with all 4, then accent 2 and 4, then add the upstroke so it's "1, 2-and, 3, 4-and".

Introducing some of the most common open chords used in country with the basic strumming from the previous tutorial.

Showing some of most basic chord progressions used in country.

At this point you've hopefully gotten pretty comfortable with using your pick, but for this tutorial we're going to put it down and instead explore all the sounds we can get out of using our right hand fingers instead.

Even in the early days of the genre, there was a lot of overlap between Country Music and other styles like Blues and Rock'n Roll music. This particularly comes to light in many of the classic electric guitar parts used, and in this tutorial we'll explore a prime example of just that.

Often in country music the electric guitar will need to fill in for a melody instrument, in place of the pedal steel, or the fiddle, and take the leads for the intros, outros and solos. The electric guitar will use the rhythm tools you've already learned to compliment the harmony and the groove.

We've already explored some basic Travis picking on acoustic guitar, but now it's time to explore this great technique on our electric. Everything we did on the acoustic can be transferred directly to the electric guitar, and you'll most likely notice that it's all a lot easier to pull off. That's because most people generally have lighter strings and lower action on electric guitars. This will also mean we can make it slightly more advanced and add a bunch of cool tricks to the basic sound.

Now it's time to take your country shuffle boogie riff to the next level by adding a handful of authentic sounding licks and tricks to the basic riff. The rhythm vocabulary that you'll end up with from this will get you incredibly far in almost any style of music that's based on Rock, Country and Blues. We'll look at some variations that work best for the open position version of the riff as well as some that work for any key, anywhere on the neck.

Apart from the Travis Picking, we've really only used our hybrid our "chicken picking" tools for lead playing. Now it's time to explore all the crazy cool sounds you can get once you start using hybrid picking in your rhythm playing. This will open up the door to a whole new world of rhythm parts and riffs that are so full of motion and rhythm that they could drive the whole groove completely on their own.

Now that you know some of the most common chord progressions used in country, it's time to look at some of the most common ways to lead into and out of these progressions or any given chord progression for that matter. In the context of a song this would be called adding "intros" and "outros". There are of course endless variations on each of these examples, but in this tutorial we'll explore the most basic and common versions of intros and outros used in country songs.

Although you'll occasionally have the luxury of having a fiddle player or a pedal steel player in your band, you as the electric guitar player have to be prepared to take the lead on any intros, outros and solos. We've already covered the basics of how to do this, so in this tutorial we'll take it all one step further by including all of the elements you've learned since then: your new pedal steel licks, triads, half step below approach, chicken picking and Travis Picking.

Up until now we've mostly used the basic minor and major chords, with only a few basic tension notes added like the 6 and the b7. Now it's time to explore some of the more advanced chord types and used in Country like the 9 chords, 13th chords, diminished chords and #5/augmented chords. These chords will add a jazzy vibe to your rhythm playing that can be really fun to use from time to time.

In this tutorial we'll explore some of the more advanced chords used in Country. This will include dominant 7 chords as well as what's called "slash chords" which is a chord with a different bass note than the root note. These chords can be thrown in to a regular chord progression in order to add a little extra tension and harmonic variation. The idea is not to change the harmony, but purely to use use these tools to further the movement that is already happening.

Now that you're familiar with the most basic application of barre-chords in a Country Context, let's take it one step further by adding the classic root/5 bass movement, just like we did on acoustic guitar earlier.

Introducing the 5 and the root-5 strumming.

Introducing the concept of separating the root note and alternating between that and the chord. Applied to all the chords from tutorial 2.

In this tutorial we're going to explore one of the most quintessential electric country rhythm tools. This tool is a rhythmic and percussive approach often referred to as "Tic Toc" guitar parts and I'm sure you'll recognize the sound of it!

In this tutorial we'll apply the "Tic Toc" concept to our open chords. This is when it really starts to sound right, but it's also a bit more challenging.

In this tutorial we're going to ditch our pick and explore some more advanced finger picking. This will most likely be quite challenging for you, but we will take it all one step at a time and ultimately this will lay the foundation for the incredibly valuable country rhythm tool known as "Travis Picking". There is no limit to how far you can eventually take this concept, but even in its most basic form it's an incredibly useful rhythm guitar tool that any country guitar player should be able to use.

In this tutorial we're going to venture further into the wonderful, but challenging world of Travis-picking on acoustic guitar. Now we're going to add 1-5 motion in the bass as well as a movement between the I and the IV-chord on the treble strings. When you put all this together, you'll hear that it almost sounds like a ragtime piano and in fact this style of guitar playing was invented by imitating the left and right hand of a piano player.

At this point we've built up a pretty solid foundation for Travis picking, both on acoustic and electric guitar. And as I've mentioned many times before, there is no limit to how far you can eventually take the concept of Travis Picking, so in this tutorial we'll venture even further into this exciting but ever-challenging terrain. This will mostly have to do with adding melodies on the treble strings, and although we're exploring all of this in a rhythm guitar context, you may start to notice the first glimpses of how you can ultimately use this technique to play grooves and melodies at the same time.

Most chords offer some possibility for tricks and variations, but it's not always the ones you want to use especially when it comes to the more unusual keys like flat keys like E-flat and B-flat for example. That's where the device called a "capo" is incredibly valuable because it enables you to use all of these tricks and tools in multiple keys.

Now it's time to try combining all of these techniques, but in order to avoid overwhelming you with options, we'll explore the different combinations one at a time, before we put it all together at the end.

In this chapter we've explored a whole bunch of new tricks and techniques, and it's always important to take a little extra time to repeat and explore all of the new vocabulary, before you move onto the next thing. So in this tutorial we'll look at some of the best combinations of the different lead tools we've explored in this chapter, and try them out over a backing track.

In this tutorial we'll turn our attention to an actual amp, and we'll break down all the different parts and controls that you find on a classic guitar amp. This will enable you to dial a great Country tone on almost any amp you encounter down the road. We'll use a Fender Super Reverb as the test subject, since it has many of the basic controls you'll find on most amps.

In this tutorial we're going to break down a practice tune with a rockin' and bluesy "honky tonk" vibe. Once again we'll start out each section with an acoustic guitar part, and draw from our whole arsenal of licks, tricks and tools to come up with a fitting electric guitar part. We'll play some solid rhythm guitar through the intro, verse and chorus sections, and then we'll break loose and play a rockin' solo in the middle.

Up until now we've mostly played in tempos that are slow to moderate. That's always the best thing to do whenever you're learning something new, cause ironically when it comes to learning rushing ahead only tends to slow you down. That being said it is quite common in Country Music to use much faster tempos for dramatic effect. This is a very exciting and fun element, but it requires a whole new level of time keeping and technical skill. Ultimately you'll want to be able to use all your rhythm and lead tools, at any tempo, but in this lesson we'll look at how, in the meantime, you can adapt your basic rhythm parts and rhythmic feel to work at these faster tempos. This way you'll be able to obtain a relaxed sound, even as the tempos get faster and faster.

In this tutorial we'll explore an example of a more recent country sound. This variation of country is very rock-oriented, and we'll get to dig into some really fun riffs and soloing tricks throughout it. As always we'll start out going through the basic harmony for each section and then we'll use all of our knowledge as well as a few new tricks here and there to come up with a cool electric rhythm part for it all.

So far we've been playing rhythm parts that are very rhythmically active and all help drive the groove in different ways. Now it's time to explore a totally different approach where we sit back and play some laid back and cool ambient guitar parts that most likely will make you think of classic Western movies and bad guys riding off into the sunset.

In this tutorial we'll explore a very useful effect that you hear all the time in Country music. This effect is called "delay", which is the same thing as an echo effect. The reason it's called "delay" is that the pedal splits up your signal and delays one of them to create the echo effect.

In this tutorial we're going to explore another regional sound and vibe that you encounter in both contemporary and classic country. This sound has a lot of influences from south of the border, and it's a ton of fun to play. For our practice tune today we'll let our acoustic guitar be both the rhythm and the lead instrument, and we'll look at some very cool compositional tools as well as some new and exciting lead approaches that work extremely well on acoustic guitar.

In this tutorial we're going to explore some useful effects that I'm sure you'll recognize the sound of when you hear them: the volume pedal, compression, and phaser.

Now we've reached the last chapter of the 2nd level of the country course, and it's time to start zooming out a little bit and looking up from the fretboard. It's always great to acquire new skills, and we'll keep on adding tricks and tools to your arsenal, but it's also important to start using all of these skills in a context that more resembles a real-life playing situation.

This tutorial will introduce you to the most common guitars used in Country music: Telecaster, Stratocaster, Hollowbody, Bigsby equipped and acoustic.

Anders will add another classic strumming pattern to your arsenal.

Anders will explore a series of chords where certain notes on the treble strings remain static through all of them. We call these common tones and it's a great sound. The common tones give these chords some wild names, but don't worry too much about that for right now. Just consider them minor or major chords with some extra flavor added.

Anders will show you a different right hand strumming pattern using a 3/4 time signature, or waltz feel.

Anders will show you helpful tips for dealing with difficult to play chords.

This is a non-playing lesson series meant to give you an idea of how to practice and set goals that better you as a musician. Music is a performance art that is driven by YOU and your interaction with others. Make the most of it!

In this series of lessons, more complex rhythms will be used to create the strumming patterns used by artists today. Also, more complex muting will be used to give your strumming a more percussive sound.

By the end of this tutorial you should be able to play examples that combine choking strumming technique using barre chords.

In this tutorial, I'll first introduce the elements of the Chet Atkins style; then for those of you new to fingerpicking, I'll also talk about how to use a thumbpick and fingers. We'll learn two pieces that I wrote - to learn how to play rhythm and melody at the same time - then walk through those pieces measure by measure, looking at both the right and left hands. Finally, we'll walk through several "banjo rolls" with Atkins-style chords.

In this 2 lesson set, Andy Gurley will be the guest host for the GT channel and teach you one of his country guitar licks, then J.D. Jarrell will join him and they'll give you insights on how to play a dual solo.