Using Country and Bluegrass Licks to Build a Guitar Solo - Lead Guitar Lesson

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Lesson ID: A0160

In the previous guitar lesson in this course, I showed you five of the most common ways to build a guitar solo and we talked about several techniques that will help you improvise better guitar solos. We also discussed the first type of solo in detail — the melodic guitar solo.

In this guitar lesson, you’ll learn about the second type of guitar solo where we’ll play stock country & bluegrass licks over the top of a standard chord progression. First, I’ll teach you four stock country and bluegrass guitar licks. We’ll talk about how to use these licks to play a hard-driving guitar solo in a country and bluegrass style. Then, I’ll show you some more of my favorite lead guitar improvising techniques. As you’re studying the concepts in this lesson, be sure to also check out the Lick Library and Guitar Scale Charts that we have available at Country Guitar Online. After you complete this lesson, practice your country & bluegrass improvising over the backing track to “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” in the key of G. Lesson tablature is available for download below the video.

The Gear I Use:
Acoustic Guitar Strings - Woodtone Country Series
Acoustic Guitar - Martin D18 Ambertone Finish, Collings D2H, Atkin D28, Martin D-16GT, Martin D-15
Guitar Pick - BlueChip TP40
Thumb Pick - Dunlop 9003P White Plastic Thumbpicks, Large
Capo - Shub S1 Deluxe

And here is the Building Powerful Guitar Solos Course Outline

In future lessons in this lead guitar course, we'll continue to build on these improvising concepts and by the end of this series you will be able to improvise a lead guitar solo over any song in any key. We're mostly focusing on playing traditional country and bluegrass guitar solos using guitar scales and bluegrass guitar licks.

If you want to learn more country and bluegrass rhythm guitar techniques, we also have a Classic Country and Bluegrass Strumming Course

And you'll probably also like the most popular course that we have out right now...the Fill Riffs and Lead Guitar Course

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