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Country, Rockabilly style guitar lead that you play over the chord changes – Guitar Lesson – EP555

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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn an up-tempo Country / Rockabilly style lead that follows the chord changes. Each chord has it’s own set of corresponding licks, so feel free to use these ideas in other things!

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  7. John D says

    FYI Brian, the first jam track with the guitar is not at full speed…not that I will ever be able to play it at that speed… but I figured you’d want to know and fix it. Thanks much!

      • Robert Burlin says

        Yes I will go through all of your past gospel lessons. And how about a deep deep dive into gospel with an old gospel tune that everyone knows and is spiritually moved by. Seems like gospel brings us closer to the spirit of it all more than any other genre and in today’s world we need that more than ever. I know I am craving that. For me music is scripture and music saved me back in the 70’s and that is why I studied music in college and learned to play guitar.

    • Will L says

      Yep!
      Barn burner!
      Never heard that phrase before but I know that it fits.
      I reckon there is a month’s worth of lessons here.
      I’ve just come back from a 3 week break and I’ve stormed through the other 2 lessons to catch up until I hit this one.

  12. Kevin S says

    Hey Brian, another fantastic lesson! Have two quick questions: 1 – You’ve switched from a Kemper emulator to a Line-6, can you speak to why you prefer the Line-6, and secondly, does that mean there’s a Kemper Profiler to be raffled? (What do you say, gang?)

  14. Daniel H says

    This lesson kicked my @$$ and I have still have to work through Part 2…LOL. Sometimes a good humbling brings out a player’s weak spots. My take away from part one is to get way more fluid at arpeggios attached to chord shapes.
    Brian, I like that you push us with challenging lessons … but please, not too many like this. I am still an “intermediate” player… and loyal to AM!

  16. Martin B says

    Hi Brian, one question about your gear. Which one do you preffer the most between the Line 6 Helix pedal board, or the Kemper Profiler?, and by the way, wich one would you reccomend? That was 2 for the price of 1

  18. Jimmy G says

    Awesome lesson Brian. I’ve been following you for years and I believe this is my all time favourite (EP317 and EP515 are close runner-ups). Superb composition, tons of great licks, beautiful playing.
    Keep those country blues/rock coming and keep up the good work.

  20. Joe N says

    Wow. Very thorough and very well explained. Playing the chord changes starting to sink in. Love the licks and composition. This will take some time. Thank You for your effort in producing another quality lesson.

  21. Mike R says

    Wow, this is pretty fast for me. I can play the individual phrases but not as fast or connect them quickly. This is a nice challenge to get up my speed. It must be difficult to come up with something new all the time. Just a suggestion, maybe sometime you could go back to any of the EP’s and add to them, making them longer. Adding more variations or a chorus etc. I wonder sometimes where else you would go if you re-do some of the more popular EP’s? Thanks again for another great lesson.

    • slopace says

      Whoops did it again…you explain where you got it further in the lesson. I was just anxious to post how much I liked the sound, I didn’t get to the part where you said where you got the tone!

  24. James S says

    You must have a new source of coffee beans or something because this is like four times your usual amount of info, and at a much faster than typical pace.

    Not a complaint; just an observation!

  25. Greg K says

    These recent lessons just knocking it out of the park! This one, the comping, the Chet Atkins, the bluegrass, great mix of really stretching the learn ing curve, just outstanding, thank you. Separate note, someone really digs his danocaster!

  31. David H says

    Hello Brian
    Thanks for your interesting and helpful lessons.
    I have a small comment with regard to the usability of your website.
    As it is my habit to bounce around, checking out old lessons and refreshing previous learnings, I would find it very useful if your search function included a ‘recall’ function, remembering, say, the last 5 or 10 lessons accessed, thus enabling quick recall of the latest lessons worked on. This would greatly aid my old and tired brain, saving me from having to remember a bunch of letters and numbers to get back to my current lessons.
    Thanks again for the good work.

    • Steven B says

      You can already do this. Add any lesson to “My Favourites” and give the collection a name. That way you can put different groups of lessons under a title and keep referring back to all lessons saved under the name of the collection. To access the saved collections click on “My account” and then open from there.

  32. Marc V says

    Hey Brian,

    Great lesson in terms of the key concept of tying in lead licks with chord shapes and I will continue to work on these concepts. However, I have not shot of playing this up to tempo. Yeah I get that you have slower tempo jam tracks, but I like to use the slower tempo jam tracks with the idea that once I get them down at slow tempo I can then bring them up to full tempo. Not going to happen with this one. LOL
    So suggestion on how to make these lessons even more valuable. (I actually got this idea after going back and watching your EP 498, How to Practice video.)
    Maybe state that this or a particular lesson is pretty advanced in terms of actual technique and then refer back to feeder lessons that have some similar concepts but are more doable for the intermediate player For example the fill lick lessons that you link to in your practice video (EP 498) would be critical to digest before trying to tackle this one (IMO)

    Even bigger picture suggestion (and if you have this somewhere alreay, I apologize) would be somehow to add category for lessons stating level (beginner, intermediate, advanced, tec)

  33. Marc V says

    Follow up. I do see beginner lesson category on lesson selection. It would be awesome if you could add other skill levels as category selection. IMO
    Cheers,

    Marc

  36. Fredo says

    Bonjour !
    Don’t you feel your brain boiling from time to time? I mean: it’s one thing to be a local teacher and have courses ready for all your students according to their level, but it’s a totally different one to have to come up with something each and every week!
    Now, I do have a question about… questions. Are questions limited to topics pertaining to the current lesson or may one ask things about different subjects or previous lessons as well?
    Cheers,
    Jean-Fred

  42. Jackson P says

    This is really incredible. Your discussion of the licks is so good. BUT I am really struggling with keeping the beat on some of the parts that are more about strumming. The first place I really struggle is in the transition from the A to the B at the end of the fifth bar. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

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