
Lesson 9 - Bluegrass Guitar Solo Improvising Course
Lesson ID: A0163
This is part two of a mini lesson series on playing lead guitar in a country and bluegrass style. In part one, you learned how to play two bluegrass guitar breaks for “Cripple Creek” using the song’s traditional melody. In this bluegrass guitar lesson, you’ll learn eight extremely useful bluegrass flatpicking guitar licks and I’ll show you three easy ways to use these bluegrass flatpicking licks to spice up your country and bluegrass guitar solos. The concepts in this lead guitar lesson will help you improvise a hard-driving bluegrass guitar break over “Cripple Creek” and these concepts can also be applied to a ton of other country and bluegrass songs.
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