Guitar lesson - country picking lick

[DerEchteBold]

Ouch!

the medium tempo is already a little to fast for me

it seems i'll need a few days/weeks/years to cover that

btw

Great Lesson!

[ERIKKINGSHIT]

kunde du inte gjort en svensk lektion istället? :(

[sparcotiel]

You gotta have a tele man

[BrettSwailes]

Known of Robert for awhile. A solid and gifted teacher, IMHO. Covers blues, country, and acoustic...(with some jazz thrown in)!

His site, (at top) has many free licks. The full DVD lessons are more than reasonable—easy to learn from. (You have to practice, though!) Good luck!

[skexee]

Tele?



[Underbatt]

Great Job!!! Thx for the lick!!!

[mikebecker330]

I just learned this lick, do you have any other of these great country licks? Better yet, do you have any scale suggestions or instructional recommendations? I've always wanted to learn how to play like Roy Clark or Chet Atkins.

[Morethanl1f3]

what scale is this based on?

[CHARrrrrrrrr]

guitar tone is not my taste but its very tasty riff thanks!

[kevins1310]

0:30 - 0:37 that remember me spongebob lol

[ACIDlesPaul]

@kevins1310 Me 2 haha

[cassytn]

nice little lick there.. you would have faired well had you grown up in Muscle Shoals, Alabama like I did.. just glad I was taught to read and write music theory from the age of 4 yrs old while I was learning to read and write english.. Otherwise this would have been a difficult little lick.. especially for a piano player like myself.. Thanks for taking the time to break it down too, I like your style of teaching.. helps us hard heads out alot!!!

[DonnieYen91]

it`s cool but without tabs it`s verry hard to learn that ... ;]

[mattiasskroder]

Tackar!

[SizraSol]

Ooooooh Yeeeeeeah XP!

That was a pretty shweet lick. Thank you for sharing that with us! I'm definitely using that somewhere for sure :).

[orpheoet]

sweet lick. love your tone

[awfulguitarnoises]

Awesome! I see your Reverend shirt, but I never see you play Revs... they are the best guitars out there. What ones do you own?

[rotren]

@awfulguitarnoises I had an American Rocco, but I know only have a Hellhound amp. Great combo.

[killthemusic95]

yee haw!

[pwgrahamster]

Thanks! Great.

[paulandlesson]

After reading comments, and reading many comments about wanting tab for this.  First, the tab is provided, however, I know how computers can be. My point is that if you cant learn this from watching this video (he gives more than enough slow, med, examples) your hands may not be ready to play it. Remember there is no shame in that, but realize you have a great vid to watch, and the audio. If someone just can't figure it out send me an E and I will help.

[paulandlesson]

Great playing, sound and video.  Thanks for posting, I am going to your site to subscribe and do more listening now. You appear to be close to my age, can you imagine having this type of resource available when we were teens, I was learning Willie Nelson solos from the LP. HAHA 5 stars

[jayrjerome1]

what songs are good for country guitar to learn? i'm hungry for learning country guitar ><

[thearmedmonkey]

I must admit I laughed when I first saw the intro. That say's quite a bit! That my first reaction to your guitarplaying is to laugh! You are one awesome guitar player!

Greetings from Norway

[crta50]

Hello, what guitar are you using? Is it expensive? ^^

Btw you are nice guitar player, fast and furious ^^

[rimare123]

Kan man få ett sånt där coolt country ljud med en Ibanez?

[SteveInRye]

Thank You Robert. You are an excellent teacher. I too caught the accent. I couldn't tell if it was Nordic or German. You could be mistaken for a Canadian, Minnesotan or North Dakotan. Anyway, good clear understandable English.

[algildea]

fantastic lick Robert, thanks!

[MrBlooze777]

Verry Cool !!!! thank you so much for sharing your talent with everyone instead of hoarding it to yourself. You will be rewarded for your generosity someday !!!

[GypsyGreetings]

I would like the tab as well but there is not a button on my top right that says more...thank you for teaching at a slow tempo as well. Great job!

[SeriousHyena]

Is there a tab for this besides the one he gives out, I can't read music, but i can read the number to string tabs thing

[vinnothelizard]

its shit

[philbertfwog]

What guitar is thatand where did you get it/how much did it cost? It's BEAUTIFUL.

[bandamazmorra]

muito bom esse cara pego altas aulas c ele na net rsrsrs!!fodasso ele!!

[hegzum]

You are awesome!

Are you from Norway?

[rotren]

Thank you, no I am from Sweden.

[hegzum]

Okay me too you sounded a lot like skavlan whan you talked.

Kan du göra en lektion på någon fingerpicking låt?

[billmeedog]

@rotren,

Do you know Richard Lundmark? He's a nice guy and an awesome player and teacher too!

BTW, you are definitely one of the best teachers out here on YouTube!

[GuillermoSmyser]

Great jazzy passing tones! My kind of country!

[scratch1676]

good quality,clean,pickin. Better than me, so thanks for the lesson.

[taariqtaariq]

real country licks are played without a pick so the strings SNAP against the frets.

[theonlydrventure]

We will let that be your little secret

watch Chet Atkins,reed.willy all use picks!

[cheetoAandV]

how would you get that tone? any answers?

[GuillermoSmyser]

@cheetoAandV Well, single coils will help a lot (bridge or bridge and middle pickups), treble is up high, bass and mids turned down. But I'm no expert and havn't tried to get this tone. But I do have this guitar.

[grzana2429]

Strat, and amp with warm clean..

[MorrisDeca]

Bravissimo!!!

[ornyboy1976]

kpkalenze i totally agree...

[kpkalenze]

Good lesson, but.......if players are trying to learn this level of riff, you shouldn't have to waste time at the beginning explaining how to do an alternating bass. If they don';t know how to do that, they shouldn't even think about learning this lesson.

[davison66]

thatx guitar is a stratx deluxe with noiseless pickups. i had one. it also has a button where u can have bridge and neck pups and u can have all 3 pups on. sounds killer. they have american model and mex . the first ones had an ash body as well. wife wrecked car and i sold it to get it fix ed. great strat

[tatersalad4real]

So its all picked except the slide?

I'm fairily new too country style plz don't hate on me

[swinevomit666]

Hellya! Great Riff!

[tylerjamesstephens]

You have one of the best Fender tones I've ever heard.

[novasco55]

Very Nice presentation

[djurt02]

Thanx a lot for this lick.!

[stevehoughton]

I like the way you played that basic Alternate Bass chord. Its very economical strumming.and picking DOWN on the root, UP on the chord. DOWN on the 5th, UP on the chord. (One smooth hand motion) Very cool. I have been playing for years and would have played that all with DOWN strokes. However seeing you playing it that way, is very interesting. Thanks for your Videos, you are an excellent teacher.

[MihaliAngeli]

from 58 seconds it sounds like zorba xD

i was waiting for you to drop into it :D

[TaffyRaphie]

yeah, cuz of the pickguard

[niixj]

I agree.

[lakaigai]

oh my god this is badass

[lidor12456]

can someone give me the tabs of this lick?

[rotren]

There is a link under "more info" on the top right. It takes to my page which has the tab in PDF.

[rocker78302]

@lidor12456 TABS TABS TABS TABS....DUDE THIS IS A LESSON USE YOUR EARS ....WHY TABS ?? THIS IS A LESSON...FOLLOW THE GUY YOU DON´T NEED TABS HERE 

[Lalog3]

gracias cholo eres lo maximo!!

[SabaZs]

sound like some character from woodie ... only he was playing a tuba... though this is great!

[benzona666]

is he swedish?

[HellMustFearMe777]

He looks turkish...

[rotren]

Yes I am.

[adriank9]

@benzona666 how did you know he's Swedish? is it Swedish English accent? :)

[teamtampico1]

where i can find the tab ?

[bitcheznhos]

2:20 - 2:24 is da bomb

[amibovverred]

Excellent picking, 5***** Regards, John.

[dmsanct]

oh yeah psshhh piece of cake xD

country style arrays are hard as hell ^^ great vid

[AlGuitar111]

Impossible to tabb, you should call out the notes or leave a tab in the top corner.

[bitcheznhos]

learn your instrument you novice ! !

[AlGuitar111]

fuck your self, you wigga faggot!

[bitcheznhos]

if you can't figure out this lick even when he slows it down for you, stick to playing guitar hero at your mama's house

[gtrrobster]

@bitcheznhos

Your name suits you! I am happy you were never one of my instructors. Being able to slow stuff down to that degree is not easy and essential for good teaching. And most people need that level expansion to hear/see the picture clearly.

[IETCHX69]

@bitcheznhos guitar hero makes the taste of vomit fill my mouth...

[Joshandguitar]

yeah...we got the up stroke thing...and the bass note thing anything else you'd like to teach us? 0:00 - 1:30

[dipployd24]

tank you berry much. U kick korn

[pat976]

'bass naught"... lol  good stuff...

[indrazor1]

"Here's the lick without in a rhythm" jaja

[odysseas827]

1:30

[Addiction747]

Nice lick and nice lesson. Thanks.

[michaellwp]

thank you for your lesson

[tsnado]

the medium tempo with the mmdun mmdun mmdun sounds like a king of the hill stuff

[Line6Metal]

Nice lick

I'll use it as an exercise

it would be kick ass on metal song lol

[tnrh1]

haha liked it nice

[bingomoney1]

SWEET

[klank67]

Nice chops dude!

[ztubs6]

are you flatpicking or chicken picking?

[boobster1969]

that lick made my asshole tighten up.

[mikecalzone]

@boobster1969 That's how I felt!

[chonnelly]

nice strat

[vinnothelizard]

its shit!!

[silversback]

it would help so much if you could write down the friggin tab for the lick. it's really annoying to play back all the time to practice...

[AlGuitar111]

To be fair, I agree, you need the Vid and the tab's.

[silversback]

yeah, as soon as i had the tab done myself it was much easier to learn...

[Alex3xplodes]

is there a way you could send me those tabs, i would greatly apreciate it man

[1Drenom]

I like it

[NOISEATHON]

Cool lesson and nice lick.

[sweetdixieguitar]

Good lick...Very useful! Thanks a bunch!

[bally28]

will sound better when you can play it at speed.

[JohnnyHorton]

Great demonstration.

[wilsonjrleon]

cool lick

[aileoz]

Great video!

[voodoovike]

good lick dude!

[Alice4016]

Amazing

[MrDarinWarren]

I just bought that SAME guitar last week with rosewood fretboard. It's giving my Ibanez JS2000 a run for it's money.

[crazyfreak1919]

what's the particular model?

[lovemesomekatemoss]

YEE HAW! Thanks

[SRVisthebest]

are you a 1/2 step down or am i off tune?

[ZorroErik]

great lick! thank you

[rjashcraft]

very cool - thanks!

[tweed6v6]

Cool lick, and well mapped out. Thanks.

[thesnazz]

BITCHING!---------FREAKING LICK!

This lick will make me look like

a star at all my gig's..at least

for 5 second's hahah!..

Thank you so much...Loved it!

[budcarfan]

Wow man, you just got yourself another fan and a subscriber... great lesson my friend

[MoritzxD]

ur lessons are VERY VERY well explained

[mguntepe]

Great lesson Maestro.

[haraldtheman]

hey rotren! great lesson

is that a deluxw mexican strat?

if yes, do you like it?

[rotren]

Thanks! Yes, I it is a Deluxe Players Strat and I do like the guitar a lot.

[vanditas]

Great lesson! I'll try to learn this one :)

Actually, what strings and gauge are you using?

[rotren]

09 - 42

[Barnekkid]

Yours is always a source for high quality lessons.