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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a fun, country lead by playing the chord changes. That means you switch scales every time the chord changes. This is a different way of thinking about playing lead in which you connect licks to chord shapes as opposed to focusing on scales. The MP3 jam track for this lesson is available in 2 tempos (normal speed and slow).
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Wow, can’t wait to learn this one! Thanks Brian
Yeah, these country oriented lessons with steel guitar licks and chicken picking are some of my favorites!
Brian, you said in the lesson that you had considered making it longer. This one is just so much fun, I really wish it was a full length song. When I play these for friends and family they always want me to keep going. I’m getting better at improvising, through these lessons, but it would be really cool if you taught an occasional full-length song, either country or up-tempo blues. Just a thought 😉
Love your lessons, keep up the good work!
Longer might be good for you but for us beginners I like it the way it is. Brian has it right. You could always repeat it all over again.
Love these twangy bendy country lessons, Brian! Thank you!
Congrats on scoring that cool Tele, Brian. Great sound!
Just all kinds of goo fun with this one.
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Never heard or seen a B Bender guitar. Man, that is really cool. Whoever thought about making this ? I’ll keep a lookout for any I may see on TV or anyplace else for that matter.
Great lesson by the way!
Watch its origins here: https://youtu.be/zxQhbvke44I
G/day Brian,
What an absolute ripper!
M.J.
Nice ideas for developing my major pentatonic licks……
Thanks Brian
Another great lesson. I like the way you always break down your lessons in simple terms, how you build the music off of the chords and Blues Scales, how they’re interconnected. Keep up the great work.
Ray P
love the B Bender and Lesson!! what if you did a full bend on the string while using b bender? is that a 4 fret bend?
yep 🙂 and probably a broken string 🙂
Am Having Trouble following the ‘chord’ changes. Any reason why the CHORDS were left out of the tablature. I realize it is a simple 1 4 5 but the exact changes are a bit tricky to figure out. Please help …
Good catch Chris – I’ve added them to the tab. I originally had them but made some changes and forgot to save apparently.
Thanks Brian that helps. I am counting first 8 bars are A , then 4 bars on D and 4 bars on A, then 6 bars on E ( where i’m Hearin g a bar of D in there and you close with 2 bars of A ……..does that sound right? ….
Btw … absolute great lesson …. thanks … you’ve made me a much better player .
Are you soloing in the relative minor of the key of the song?
No. This entire solo is from the major pentatonic and diatonic scales, although Brian talks about them in the context of chord shapes.
No. This entire solo is from the major pentatonic and diatonic scales, even though Brian talks about them in the context of chord shapes.
Sorry! Didn’t mean to reply to this comment. I thought this was a different solo.
I love all your lessons but the country ones are my favorites!
Hey Brian, great work as always. Didn’t Clarence White use a B bender back when he was with the Byrds? Seem to recall that….
This reminds me of Clarence White! Thanks for the lesson, Brian.
keep up the country stuff brian love it, having a job to learn all this stuff
thanks
pete uk
B bender! Why I never! lol,, going to try 9s on the tele, sounds and looks like a very fun lesson!
Excellent !!! Please keep more country solo stuff coming !!! Amen. 🙂
So fast ! Nice challenge. A real stretch ! Thanks Brian.
Wow, this sounds like coming home! I love it!
Brian. Great lesson.thanks. This is off topic, but when you have a chance could you explain what Vince Gill is doing on the break in One More Last Chance? Thanks. Bob
Brian great lesson,hope everyone can pick up on it. That’s just good country. Like the new guitar, B bender is a plus.
Thanks, Royce
Brian – this lesson alone was worth my annual membership fee. Great lesson, great tips. How I wish I could have had this thirty years ago!!
Wow Brian…..I am totally…and I mean totally impressed…..;-) Seriously! I do love this one. Never thought I would like playing “country” on my guitar. But I’m really liking it. EP-144 got me started.
Hey Brian, I’m always impressed with your amp tones with your lessons. Would you be able to quickly mention the amp, pedals, and amp settings with each lesson, you have done this periodically in the past and it’s very much appreciated. Thanks for the inspiration!
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Really enjoying this one (I think I say that every week). I’d love to see you expand on this style. Perhaps multiple solos over the same backing track so we could practice extended soloing while introducing additional instruction and ideas. Maybe not on consecutive weeks, but circling back around to them eventually with enough info to where we could chain them together.
I second that idea wholeheartedly! 👍
Very Nice Brian…Thank You!
Brian, you said in the lesson that you had considered making it longer. This one is just so much fun, I really wish it was a full length song. When I play these for friends and family they often want me to keep going. I’m getting better at improvising, through these lessons, but it would be really cool if you taught an occasional full-length song, either country or up-tempo blues. Just a thought 😉 Love your lessons, keep up the great work!
I agree, up to a point. Brian’s point that this is a launch pad for improvisation, modulation to other keys, etc. is well taken. I’ve messed around with Bob Weir’s riffs on Sugar Magnolia & this “etude” opened doors for me & expanded my horizon. OMG.
An excellent follow up to ep274, I really enjoyed learning to play this country style.
Interesting guitar too, the b- bender. Did not know they exist, wish I could find a used one in the future.
I been playing both,, will do these two fun country lessons for next entry!
Great tele!
I’m 61 and finally have someone that explains lead in terms I get! Thanks so much!
I used to loathe hybrid picking until this lesson. Something clicked and it makes things sooo much easier now to use it.
Took me about a month to get it down, really starting to see how it all works now with these lessons post caged system lessons
This lesson is so much fun. I never thought I would love the country lessons but man I was wrong.
Shades of Sugar Magnolia. Thanks, Brian!
Loved this lesson! So many tasty licks!
This lesson was one of the first ones I did two years ago and the reason I subscribed to the site. Then I went back to #1 and worked my way through and am back at it again, 2 years later – and I’m a much better player now!
You’ve crafted this very well, thank you