Big Twang Chicken Pickin' - Country Guitar Lessons

[gibsonsg995]

is this only clean tone? is it only clean no effects?

[LeeChavezMusic]

@gibsonsg995 I would bet that the only effect he's using is a compressor.

[sweetdixieguitar]

Country music originated from Southern Appalachian music, incorporating musical instruments from all over the world. Just as our founders came from differentplaces, so did the instruments. The earliest arrangements of country originated from Celtic music. It did not come from Blues as you claim. Blues have their place in country music history, but country music is much older than blues. If anything, blues came from country. However, in their purest forms, they are very different.

[DimeRB2496]

blues is the way to go

[zackers]

Its a shame to accuse metal fans who play guitar of only wanting to reach a fast speed of playing though you cant blame them for wanting to play fast if they like fast music surely. After all musicians do want to play the music the listen to. As for saying metal reached a dead end a long time couldn't be father from the truth. If you listen to current and old metal bands their music today is packed with feeling, intelligent lyrics and creative guitar licks.

[montesooma]

im sick of people promising tab and then you follow the link and there is no tab.

dis is bullshit man

[SavageCrnbread]

What is the name of that song?

[moronicus1]

That's a demo that we mere mortals can understand. Thanks.

[MrBluesilverred]

I say, play what you enjoy, and to Hell what anybody else thinks! I think it's great, that everyone does NOT share the same ideas!

[Twinhit]

This sounds like that old Benny Hill theme.

[monkeys350]

I'm sick of metal players and shredders saying they like jazz but not saying anything about blues. How could you like rock, metal, and jazz but not the stuff in between?!?! Then all they know about jazz is the chord progression to one jazz song that they looked up and they solo over it in the pentatonic minor scale. Random comment I know but it came up in my mind and I thought I'd post it to see if anyone agrees.

[flipperboy]

why limit it to metal players and shredders, a whole wide range of musicians claim to know alot about jazz but end up knowing some lyrics to a sinatra song or armstrong song

[monkeys350]

but it's especially the headbangers and shredders who like to sound like they play a wide variety of music by liking jazz and metal since they are close to opposites. and yeah your right that's too true lots of people say they know jazz but all they can play is a 9 chord.

[1KOOLRIFF]

@monkeys350 Well, being a metal guitarist, I'll argue the alternative. My passion is to play metal. I DO enjoy jazz, and would love to learn more about it (I actually plan on going to Berklee College of Music in Boston, a jazz centered school). Blues on the other hand, I find highly repetitive. You say we only play the pentatonic scale, but we really play much more (those of us that are good). I myself play a lot of harmonic minor scales, and play different scales to different degrees.

[ElliotRocker]

@monkeys350 And if you look closely there's very few metal players who can play blues with the real taste and FEELING (Malmsteen, Johnson,Moore)without jerking it off with incoherent shredding. Many of that guys who shun the blues are souless players who only think in being faster.Blues its about feeling, not about speed.

[monkeys350]

@ElliotRocker That's what I'm saying. The guys that "play" jazz and metal and put down the blues, they don't care about the soul. They just care about the scales and arppegios and speed. If it doesn't have soul, it's nothing to me. Of course, the real jazz guys like the blues, but metal and jazz guys are too caught up in music theory and technique. They don't care about the actual music and the feelings it makes. I don't see how one could like listening to metal AND jazz anyway, too different.

[ElliotRocker]

@monkeys350 I also think that , nowadays metal has little to offer compared to jazz and blues.Metal playing has touched dead end a long time ago.

[crohnsappleadams]

@ElliotRocker Malmsteen doesn't play the blues with taste and feeling.

[JohnnyRockerman]

@monkeys350 I agree. People need to understand that blues is where everything else came from. All genres get their roots from blues in some way. Country, rock, and anything that branches off from these genres have roots in the blues.

[foulis]

@monkeys350

i`m totaly with you

[ibanezxiphos700]

@monkeys350

i like jazz but blues is gay

[alcoholman01]

@ibanezxiphos700 Blues and jazz kind of go hand in hand. Douche bag.

[ibanezxiphos700]

@alcoholman01

so do rock and metal, but tons of people that like metal don't like rock. why do you care what i like and don't like?

[monkeys350]

@ibanezxiphos700 Apparently you expected someone to care what you like and don't like when you posted on here that you think blues is gay.

[CornyTelecaster49]

@ibanezxiphos700 you need medical treatment. BLUES IS GAY?!!?!?!?!?! SERIOUSLY?!?!?!?! My friend, blues is sadness transferred into music. Its not bitchy emo sadness, its sad guy who lost his woman for good sadness. Blues is altogether, remembering and cherrishing the good ol times you had. And thats GAY?!?!

[MarshallWillanholli]

@ibanezxiphos700 Idiot

[ibanezxiphos700]

@MarshallWillanholli

thhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhanks!

[CornyTelecaster49]

@monkeys350 thats why im just a plain guitarist. im learning to play metal, rock, classical, country and jazz. its all music :)

[MKrock0]

your very wrong in many ways, hybrid picking can be done on anything, and yes the twang of a telecaster sounds good with it, but this guitar has the same pickups as the tele has, and go watch the mother truckers, they do some hybrid picking on a strat.

[bushhog57]

dude, first off, that is a custom tele style guitar that is in NO WAY inferior to a Fender. you and your million-note-playing homeboys would not be fit to shine Joe Dalton's shoes in any universe. just because you play fast doesn't mean you're playing well. when you pass twenty years old and start to learn about country music you may start to 'learn yourself'

[lighteningboy]

I am pretty sure that is a Tom Anderson T-Model. Those guitars are superior to my new American Standard Telecaster, but my Tele sounds at least as good, if not, in my opinion, better.

[iliv4daweekend]

Dude, I don't think I could EVER get into country, like EVER

I think to enhance my guitar abillity I'll play some Jazz

[tokyojoband]

i just worked it out from the video.its not that hard.i ll prob post it if anybody wants it broken down let me know

[davejimgut]

the part on 0:46 please!

[mattygeetarross]

That is when it goes to the 5 chord, e.

2nd fret on d(or 4th string)

then on g string, 1-pulloff-open-pick open, 2-pulloff-open-pick open, 3-pulloff-open-pick open, 4

That's all!! Pretty simple, but cool!!

[davejimgut]

thanks heaps apreciate it. am trying to learn how to chicken pick and get real good over this summer (new zealand summer) but very rare slow tutorials available adn the stuff i find is way too quick!~ any ideas?

[mattygeetarross]

Ya,

I picked up a little cheap olympus voice recorder, it has a slow playback function! Just record the stuff off here and play it back slow! You can then record it from there to your computer on the slow playback mode, then re-record it and it's even slower! Works well!! Good luck!

[santanguitars222]

chickin picking is about digging the pick in and out!!!

[musicprodave]

cool playing

[Ibik]

what guitar is that?

[SepaXP]

the tone is pretty good - but there's no lesson.

[guitarworldlessondvd]

I can only dream on playing on this level!!!

AMAZING!!

[billysfender]

super, this was so clear. it will help me so much. thanks

[tele757]

The lesson is all in the right hand fool

[jlslreyn]

wheres the lesson?

[mkschreder]

Great! I love that tone you got