Any Tips For Country Playing?

[SonofaMitch]

Ok, So I've Recently Formed A Band..And we're gonna play Country Rock.

As I'm New to Country Lead Guitar...I was wondering if any of you Country

Cats could toss a Few Pointers My way...

ie...Scales,Progressions,Chords,Techniques

Any Help would Be AWSOME!!

~Mitch~

 

[BigAlTheBird]

Re: Any Tips For Country Playing?

Get a B Bender Tele. That's all you need!

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

Canadian country, eh?

 

[RushOfBlood]

Re: Any Tips For Country Playing?

I-iv-v??

 

[Bludave]

Re: Any Tips For Country Playing?

Get a Telecaster and a Vibrolux. Your tone will be there. Now just listen to some great Country players. Brad Paisley, Vince Gill, Keith Urban. That should get you in the ballpark for some "modern" Country!

 

[tone4days]

Re: Any Tips For Country Playing?

the major pentatonic scale will be your crutch / friend

for a C major pentatonic scale (play over C - F - G7), use the same notes as the A minor pentatonic

learn to play with your fingers, or a combination of pick and fingers for that rolling, chicken pickin feel

get a compressor

t4d

 

[Pink Unicorn Horsey]

Re: Any Tips For Country Playing?

learn to play with...a combination of pick and fingers...

A big +1 to that.

 

[SonofaMitch]

Re: Any Tips For Country Playing?

haha okays well I know ALL my Minor Pentatonics(Positions1-5).....and I can "Chicken Pick"...mostly....so Just learn the Majors...and don't worry..a Tele's DEFFINATLY On my List Thx A Lot Guys!!

~Mitch~

 

[TimmyPage]

Re: Any Tips For Country Playing?

Knock out a few of your front teeth and sleep with your sister/close female relative.

The major country scale is useful I find.. it's essentially the major scale without the 7th (in other words - no real dissonance)

 

[Pink Unicorn Horsey]

Re: Any Tips For Country Playing?

haha okays well I know ALL my Minor Pentatonics(Positions1-5).....and I can "Chicken Pick"...mostly....so Just learn the Majors...and don't worry..a Tele's DEFFINATLY On my List Thx A Lot Guys!!

~Mitch~

This DVD wouldn't hurt either:

(In fact, I just bought a copy for myself.)

- Keith

 

[gavantia]

Re: Any Tips For Country Playing?

If you know all the positions 1-5 like you stated, then you already know the major pentatonic. Its the same thing, you simply start from a different note.

example:

x----x
x----x
x--x
x--x
x--x
x----x < start from this note using it as the root and you're major
^
If you start on this note and end on this note anywhere on the neck then you're minor.

The same applys to the other shapes.


For country style its all about the Major scale and chicken pickin. Personally I think its a way better approach to use the full major scale rather than the pentatonic scale. The pentatonic can only do so much and is very limiting when you want maximum flavour going on.


:rocket:

 

[SonofaMitch]

Re: Any Tips For Country Playing?

Mmmm Flavour.....sounds good I'll keep to The Major Scale and "Borrow" from the Major Pentatonic

And I DEFFINATLY Gotta Try 2 Find a B-Bender Tele Body!!!!!!!! that YouTube Vid's Sweet!

~Mitch~

 

[JohnnyGuitar]

Re: Any Tips For Country Playing?

Scales that work for me:
Add the major 3rd and 6th to the minor pentatonic.

Notes in the Am pentatonic looks something like:
E-5--8
B-5-78
G-567--
D ---7

I use it all the time... play with those notes you can also make them sound pretty funky...

 

[GuitarStv]

Re: Any Tips For Country Playing?

A great technique for simulating some pedal steel sounds is to bend a note up, hold it, and play some other notes. Something like this:


e-----------------------7------------
B---------------------7---7----------
G----------4----6b8---------8r6--4~~-
D--------4---4-----------------------
A-----6------------------------------
E---7--------------------------------

 

[Corbic]

Re: Any Tips For Country Playing?

A great technique for simulating some pedal steel sounds is to bend a note up, hold it, and play some other notes. Something like this:


e-----------------------7------------
B---------------------7---7----------
G----------4----6b8---------8r6--4~~-
D--------4---4-----------------------
A-----6------------------------------
E---7--------------------------------

+1. Double stop pedal-steel style licks are great for country music.

 

[bulldog]

Re: Any Tips For Country Playing?

#1 Buy a tele
#2 Play real fast
#3 Play real clean

I can't do any of those things so I just avoid country music altogether. :laughing:

 

[nepalnt21]

Re: Any Tips For Country Playing?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=25RvDYU0qEc

 

[SoCalSteve]

Re: Any Tips For Country Playing?

This is my kind of country pickin' (Andy Timmons) It's the middle video.

http://www.andytimmons.com/video.php?id=0004

 

[aleclee]

Re: Any Tips For Country Playing?

double stops and oblique bends

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: Any Tips For Country Playing?

the major pentatonic scale will be your crutch / friend

for a C major pentatonic scale (play over C - F - G7), use the same notes as the A minor pentatonic

learn to play with your fingers, or a combination of pick and fingers for that rolling, chicken pickin feel

get a compressor

t4d

+2?

Also add a slapback for some stuff and you are in business. When I got my Tele I plugged it in with a compa dn slapback into 6L6 clean and I was blown away with how authentic it sounded. Without the slapback was straight up Folsum Prison album. lol

 

[SonofaMitch]

Re: Any Tips For Country Playing?

nice..I guess I better start Practising haha

~Mitch~