Youtube Country Guitar Lesson

Hi Guys,

Hope you're all well! I had some free time recently so thought I'd put together a country guitar lesson and a backing track. I'd love to know what you think, if you want to see more just let me know and I'll get to work!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhxTeORMcgU

All the best,

Stuart Ryan
Columnist, Guitar Techniques Magazine

Good stuff. I subscribed to your channel.

great licks, wish I had the time and patience to sit down and learn them!

Cool licks and great lesson with alot of open strings.

Your technique and hands are the easiest to see and learn from Ive seen yet.
Your fingers are thin enough to see spacing and exact location at all times.

I could get hooked on your stuff easy - at least until I'm better than you-LOL

Thanks guys, really glad you are enjoying it and your feedback is invaluable - you wouldn't believe how many angles I tried to get the hand shots right!

I'll get to work on the next one!

Thanks Stuart!

Great licks. Can't wait to sit down and break into it and I greatly appreciate your presenting this free of charge. You know, I know, and anybody who watches it will know how valuable such a lesson is.

It's also great for an amateur guitar enthusiast like myself to be able to talk to a guy who is a working pro. I see you are a new member. I hope you stick around and add your knowledge and expertise to some of the threads.

Thanks for the really warm welcome guys, this looks like a really cool forum. Githead, any questions always feel free to ask - I'm a guitar fan first and a pro second!

I've spent the afternoon copping Earl Scruggs' banjo licks, I may do a banjo roll lesson as a tribute next.

Great lesson! I've subscribed and will see if I can get these old fingers to follow.....
Cheers,
C.

Yea thanks Stuart,
I find it really easy to give up on some of these type lessons but it does sink in eventually.
I persevered for a few hours and I got them all, now the hard bit of getting them fluently up to speed as you make look so easy.

Just one thing, I nearly gave up on lick 3 as I couldn't get the speed because of stretch on the first three notes then I realised the Tab was wrong, although it does work 7-10-11 I think you are playing 9-10-11.
Stax

Thanks Stuart for the cool lesson! Always like learning new licks to add to the repertoire! Keep em' coming & keep it country!! Cheers!

man you're good. i pressed the like button

great stuff, keep them coming!

Stax.......Where is the tab? I didnt see a link to it...

Thanks

Go to lessons/free lessons

http://stuartryanmusic.com/

Great stuff Stuart! Thanks for sharing.

I love your tone. Would you share your pedal and amp settings?

Thanks for taken the time and sharing this vid. I enjoyed it very much, very helpful indeed.

Hi Stuart,

I have an idea, and it's kind of a step down from the stuff you're doing now and it's only an idea but I think I know of a niche demographic that I happen to populate.

As a guitarist I was weened on blues and blues/rock. I have learned to love many styles and can adapt my playing to jazz and country...etc.

The pick and fingers style of playing is a challenge. It is a completely new way of playing. I can play country licks by adaptig my existing style and I can pick up some pick and finger licks but it would be great to have a series of excercises or drills designed to enforce that method. To create good technique. I have a number of videos like the Doug Seven and Johnny Highland and a couple others and while they are awesome and I get a kick out of them it seems that is where most fall short. At least for somebody like me.

So thats my 2 cents. Thanks!

Hi again guys, hope you're all having a good week!

Githead - great idea about the pick and fingers stuff, I'll have a think about putting something together on that. My preference is actually to just use the picking hand fingers but I think that may be even more niche than pick and finger stuff (I have a long history in fingerstyle acoustic guitar, I've often thought about doing something to show how it can translate to electric). Leave it with me and I'll see what I come up with!

ADinNYC - quite a simple signal path for this one, 6'3 relic Tele into a Carr Rambler amp with a Keeley compressor in there for a bit of squish. The really interesting thing is how it's recorded - I have a DI/Speaker emulator made by a guy here in the UK called a Sequis Moterload Elemental. This means I can disconnect the amp from the speaker, plug into the Sequis and the amp is tricked into thinking it has a speaker load. This is then fed direct to an Apogee Duet ii interface into Logic. The end result sounds like a mic'd up cab and the amp can be run at any volume - louder for more drive etc. There is no volume from coming from the amp itself so I can record as quietly as I want using headphones or studio monitors to hear everything. Very clever and useful device when you want to avoid amp volume issues.

Stax - thanks for pointing out the error, I'll correct that a bit later on and re-upload.

All the best,

Stuart

Hi Stewart,

I may have the nomenclature mixed up. I am not refering to finger style acoustic guitar. And I don't think I'm referring to chickin pickin. As I understand it chickin pickin is when you pinch off the notes to get that ckickin pickin tone. I'm refering to the country style picking where you use a pick and fingers on your right hand to play very quickly. You use this technique and it seems to be quite common amongst country pickers. It is rarely found in other styles of playing.

Thanks for the really warm welcome guys, this looks like a really cool forum. Githead, any questions always feel free to ask - I'm a guitar fan first and a pro second!

I've spent the afternoon copping Earl Scruggs' banjo licks, I may do a banjo roll lesson as a tribute next.

Earl was the reason I go into playing music. I started out on banjo and moved to guitar when I realized I couldn't cut it as a real banjo player. I translated what banjo rolls I did know to my tele, but I would love to learn some new ones. Look forward to it.

No wonder - I build amps and have never heard anything modern to even touch the tone of a Carr Rambler. Thats one of the best built modern vintage amp's available today.
Completely true point to point built/soldered inside. They are among only maybe 3-5 true PTP amps on the market today.

The only thing I'd do If I owned one is get is very rarely use the pentode/triode switch.
And never turn the switch when the amp is powered on, even if in standby, though they say it's okay to do that (and it is) I'd just pretend like it wasn't to bge safe. The only Rambler I ever had to repair was to replace the power tranny on a4 year 0ld Rambler with the stamped leather-like cabinet. Carr sent me a new Tranny for free, after that I was sold on Carr as just about the coolest amp company around. I already loved it's tone and construction, then to deal directly with the head of service and the owner of the company, was refreshing. They reallly know what they are doing.

You don't see nearly enough Carr love out there, because they are kind of spendy.
But not when you consider how they are building the. Rather pay 3 grand for Carr than a Bogner as both are good amps, but carr's interior is superior by a mile. And, you can see by my avatar I owned a Bogner. Of course, I've tried just about every amp out there at one time or another.