Truefire DIY Country Blues Guitar [TUTORiAL]

Learning how to play Country Blues guitar can appear challenging at first, but if you build a solid foundation of techniques, from the ground up, you'll be amazed at how quickly you can get up and running. Gareth Pearson's DIY Country Blues course is an accelerated series of step-by-step, hands-on lessons designed to build your foundation and get you up and running quickly. "We'll play our way through this entire course starting at level 1, where we focus on alternating bass-lines and thumb independence - an absolute MUST for country blues. In level 2, we'll work on building right-hand syncopation between the bass-lines and melody notes. Level 3 focuses on arpeggio-based banjo roll exercises, and in level 4, we'll tackle the "claw", a pianistic approach you gotta know. Finally, in the fifth level we focus on cascading, banjo-style licks and embellishments that are essential in Country Blues. Once you've polished your skills by learning to play the first five performance studies, you'll be ready to take on our final DIY performance study - an original Country Blues tune that incorporates everything you will have learned in the course. Work through the entire course and you will have the skills to apply these universal techniques across the entire Country Blues songbook." Gareth will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches along the way. You'll get standard notation and tabs for all of the performance studies. Plus, you'll be able to use TrueFire's learning tools to sync the tab and notation to the video lesson. You can also loop or slow down the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace. Grab your guitar and let's dig in with Gareth Pearson! What you'll learn Master arpeggio-based banjo roll patterns Create moving bass lines with the thumb while maintaining upper string patterns Execute the claw technique with middle and ring fingers linked together Learn the Claw technique for pianistic playing Build right-hand syncopation skills 1h 15m runtime