Learn Beginner Country Soloing in 10 Days
Learn to twang like a pro – 10 country techniques, 10 days to shine.
Late Beginner
For late-beginners who are brand new to country. You'll need some basic lead guitar skills to thrive in this class.
10 days
Eugene will guide you through 10 days of step-by-step instruction with interactive TAB and daily exercises.
Unlock your inner twang
You'll leave this class with an authentic set of country skills that'll have you ripping hot licks with Nasvhille flair.
Take the next step
Once you complete this class, master the art of country guitar in the Country Learning Pathway with Daniel Donato.
What you'll learn
By making quick tweaks to your existing soloing skills and learning new country-fried techniques, Eugene will show you how to build a solid foundation for twangy lead playing.
- Adapt your soloing skills to the country tradition.
- Target chord tones to solo with greater intention.
- Explore country progressions and harmonization.
- Twang like a pro with hybrid and chicken picking.
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Curriculum
Stay focused with this step-by-step learning program designed by our expert team of music educators.
Your guided learning experience
This course is designed to give you a rock-solid foundation for country soloing so you can start playing right away and chart a path to advanced country soloing. Each day, you’ll learn a new skill, practice it in-depth with guided exercises, and tie it all together with an interactive jam.
Bends
This class is designed to get you soloing ASAP.
We’ll kick things off by exploring how to adapt your bending skills to access the signature twang and expressive feel of country music.
Slides and vibrato
Slides and vibrato are bread-and-butter techniques that guitarists of all genres use. Both help you imitate the sound of a human voice.
In this lesson, you'll dial in these core techniques so you can make your guitar sing like a heartbroken cowboy.
Hammer-ons and pull-offs
In Day 3, we’ll focus on tweaking one last core technique to get you in the country mindset.
Eugene will run you through a series of exercises to increase the amount of notes at your disposal and give your guitar a runaway train sound.
Days 4-10. Build your country foundation
The twang train is leaving the station. Throughout the next seven lessons, you'll explore the cornerstones of the country guitar sound. Eugene will break down how each technique or concept applies to your playing and then guide you through exactly what it takes to get it under your fingers.
- Day 4. Open strings: Make the guitar sound like a banjo with open string licks.
- Day 5. Country scale tones: Discover specific country note choices.
- Day 6. Double stops: Double up on a melody by harmonizing it.
- Day 7. Hybrid picking: Expand the picking hand and take your chords to the next level.
- Day 8. Chicken pickin’: Activate the unmistakable country guitar twang sound.
- Day 9. 6ths: Supercharge your double stops with 6th intervals.
- Day 10. Pedal steel: Unlock the pedal steel sound by combining bends and picking.
Performance pieces
To cap off the course, you'll take what you learned and apply it in a purely musical context by learning solos crafted by Eugene that incorporate the techniques you worked on throughout the class.
Days 1-3. Adapt your foundation
Start playing ASAP by making simple tweaks to your existing soloing skillset.
What you need to know to get started:
Wondering if you're ready for this class? You don't need to be a master of soloing, but a few core skills will go a long way. Before starting, you should be comfortable with:
- The fundamentals of bending, hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, and vibrato.
- The basics of pentatonic scale soloing.
- The soloing material in the Late Beginner Learning Pathway.
The first three lessons:
Eugene kicks off the class with three lessons that take those existing soloing skills and show you how to adapt them to the country tradition. You’ll work on bending, hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, and vibrato – all with the iconic twang of country guitar.
Days 4-6. The sound of country
Start building up authentic country vocabulary.
Next, you’ll focus on charting new territory by exploring iconic country techniques and concepts. In Day 4, you’ll channel the spirit of the banjo by using open strings create a cascading, over-ringing effect in your solos.
In Day 5, you’ll get theoretical by learning how to target scale tones and blend scale language to find the right balance of moodiness versus optimism. In Day 6, you’ll tackle double stops – an essential ingredient in any respectable country solo.
Days 7 & 8. The art of twang
Shift focus to your picking hand.
With some essential vocabulary and fretting techniques under your fingers, we’ll turn toward your picking hand and tackle two must-know techniques: Hybrid picking and chicken pickin’.
Hybrid picking is yet another technique that we’ve pinched from our banjo brothers and sisters. Rather than strumming all of the strings, hybrid picking uses a mixture of the pick and fingers to grab notes in a chord. You’ll work on that in Day 7 to build speed and precision, gain greater dynamic control over your solos, and get more tonal options at your fingertips.
Next comes chicken pickin’ in Day 8. It’s a variation of hybrid picking that adds an extra snap to your notes via muting. This technique will do some serious heavy lifting for the twang in your tone.
Days 9 & 10. Final techniques
Cap off your intro to country soloing with two more core sounds.
To cap off the class, you’ll get a dash of theory and one more instrument-mimicking technique to tie a bow on your new country skills.
In Day 9, you’ll explore the wide and warm 6th interval to beef up your lead lines. In Day 10, you’ll revisit bending to capture the longing yowls of a pedal steel.
Before we send you down to the Nashville circuit, Eugene has prepared three performance pieces for you. These are solos that were specifically composed to include techniques you worked on throughout the class. These are a great way to make sure you’re comfortable with everything you learned.
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Your Instructor
Eugene Edwards
Learn twangy soloing from a modern master of the country tradition.
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