Learn To Play Acoustic Guitar - Free How To Guitar Lessons For Beginners Online» How to Play Country Guitar http://www.learn-acoustic-guitar.com Beginner Acoustic Guitar Lessons, Instructions and Tips Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:02:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 7 Easy Country Guitar Songs – Learn to Play Country Songs With The Guitar http://www.learn-acoustic-guitar.com/7-easy-country-guitar-songs-learn-to-play-country-songs-with-the-guitar http://www.learn-acoustic-guitar.com/7-easy-country-guitar-songs-learn-to-play-country-songs-with-the-guitar#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:21:54 +0000 rserpe http://www.learn-acoustic-guitar.com/7-easy-country-guitar-songs-learn-to-play-country-songs-with-the-guitar

Learn To Play Country Guitar Songs With These 7 Free Lessons!

Hi fellow country guitar enthusiast. Do you want to learn to play country songs with the guitar? Well then, sit back, grab your guitar and get ready to learn how. Below are a handful of  great country music songs, 7 to be exact. The following were chosen because of their popularity and because they are relatively easy to play, assuming you put the necessary practice time in.

I hope you find these country songs enjoyable.  Be certain to take things slow in the beginning.  No matter how quickly the original song is played, always remember to go slowly at first until you are playing everything correctly.  One of the biggest mistakes beginners make is to rush and play too quickly.  This ultimately will only lead to poor guitar playing.  Eventually after playing these songs for a certain period of time, it will become second nature to you.  Whatever you do, do not become frustrated with your guitar playing.  Enjoy !

I make no promises as to the accuracy of any of these Lessons, chords, lyrics or other information on this page. I tried to include the original version of each song so that you can make any adjustments if needed.

Easy Country Guitar Song 1

Strawberry Wine By Deana Carter

Easy Country Guitar Song 2

Take me Home, Country Roads By John Denver

Easy Country Guitar Song 3

You’ll think of me By Keith Urban

Easy Country Guitar Song 4

You Just Can’t See Him From The Road By Chris Ledoux

Easy Country Guitar Song 5

I can still make Cheyenne By George Strait

Easy Country Guitar Song 6

Easy Come, Easy Go By George Strait

Easy Country Guitar Song 7

Teardops On My Guitar by Taylor Swift

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By Peter Edvinsson

Many things you learn from playing licks can be used to spice up solos in other genres. You will now learn to play some useful country licks in the key of A. Some easy, some a little bit awkward but nice!

You can play these licks using a pick or with your right hand fingers. You can also combine the pick with the use of a couple of more fingers like the middle finger and ring finger. This is commonly called hybrid picking. Having a few fingers at your disposal makes it easier to play licks with a lot of jumping between strings.

You will use a form of guitar tablature I have found suitable for articles like this one. The notes you will play are notated with the fret to play before a slash and the string after the slash. An example:

2/4

This means: Play the second fret on string four!

You will start with an A-major scale with some ringing open strings.

We will use hammer-ons in this scale. I will notate them with the letter h between the notes:

0/5 7/6 4/5 0/4 7/5 4/4 h 6/4 h 7/4 0/2 6/3 3/2 0/1 7/2 4/1 h 5/1

You will now play this scale descending. This will require you to replace the hammer-ons with pull-offs notated the same way with a p between the notes. It will look like this:

5/1 p 4/1 7/2 0/1 3/2 6/3 0/2 7/4 p 6/4 p 4/4 7/5 0/4 4/5 7/6 0/5

Your first country guitar lick will take you from E7 to A. We will use hammer-ons and pull-offs even in this lick. The suggested chords to play with the lick is in parenthesis:

(E7) 0/6 3/6 h 4/6 0/4 2/4 p 0/4 4/5 0/4 2/5 p 0/5 3/6 h 4/6 (A) 0/5

It is easiest to play in the second position. This means that you play the notes on the second fret with your index, the note on the third with your middle finger and so on.

In your next lick you will also use slides. I will notate this with an – between the notes:

4/3 – 5/3 3/2 0/1 3/2 5/3 – 4/3 0/2 2/3 5/4 – 4/4 0/3 2/4 p 0/4 3/5 h 4/5 0/5

The following country guitar lick uses a bend up a half note. It is notated (1/2b) before the note:

(E7) 3/1 h 4/1 0/1 3/2 p 0/2 2/3 0/3 h 1/3 2/4 p 1/4 p 0/4 (1/2b) 3/5 (A) 0/5

My intention with these licks is that you will learn them by heart as soon as you can. Play a couple of notes or so at a time until you know them by heart and add a couple of more notes. The notation is not important. It’s just a means to convey the lick.

As soon as you know the lick by heart you can experiment with it and change it as you like.

Country guitar licks are often played in a way that creates a rapid succession of notes using a minimum of energy. This is accomplished by the following means:

1. Using a pick and two more fingers or only using the fingers with maybe a thumb pick.

2. Using as much open strings or strings ringing together as possible.

3. Using slides, hammer-ons and pull-offs and of course bends.

There is a risk with this type of licks. The ultimate goal is of course to play them fast and fluid, creating this nice cascades of notes that you can hear from a good country guitarist. To reach this goal you really have to practice these licks slowly using as little tension as possible as you play.

If you are that type of person that wants to learn things fast I guess you have to remind yourself that the fastest way to learn to play fast is to play slowly. It is as easy as that.

Peter Edvinsson invites you to download your free sheet music, guitar tabs, ebooks, guitar lessons and read his music blog at http://www.capotastomusic.com

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By Peter Edvinsson

Have you ever wondered about how to get that ringing country sound from your guitar. In this you will learn some country licks based on a combination of fretted notes and open strings.

We will first take a look at a D-major scale in one octave:

0/4 2/4 4/4 0/3 2/3 0/2 3/2

How do you read this guitar tablature?

The first digit indicates which fret to play. The digit after the slash gives you the string to play.

2/3 means that you are to play the second fret on the third string.

We will now try to figure out a way to play the previous scale with some ringing open strings. Let’s try this one:

0/4 7/5 4/4 0/3 7/4 0/2 6/3 3/2

A little bit confusing at first of course. If you are used to the ordinary way of playing scales you have get used to finding higher notes on lower strings.

I suggest that you learn the scales and licks by heart by learning just a few notes at a time until you get a little bit more used to this new way of finding notes.

You can probably figure out a left hand fingering that works for you. The principle is to hold the notes as long as possible to let them blend together.

But, what about the right hand?

You can pick the notes with a pick of course. It’s a little bit awkward, though trying to play notes on different strings in succession. Many country pickers use one of the following approaches:

1. Hybrid picking. This means that you hold the pick as usual but also use the middle finger and ring finger along with the pick. This opens for an easier way to play notes in rapid succession even if the are on different strings.

2. Finger picking. You can play the notes with your bare fingers using your thumb, index, middle finger and ring finger. You will miss the crisp sound from the pick but can compensate this with the freedom of having four finger to use and growing calluses on your finger tips!

3. Using a thumb pick. A little bit like hybrid picking but with the advantage of having four fingers at your disposal and a crisp sound from the thumb. Not bad! Not all guitarist like this approach though. But it has to be tested! I have bought a couple of these thumb picks but they have a tendency to dissappear! I guess it’s because I can’t keep them in my hip pocket because of the pain sitting down!

Let’s test a few country guitar licks in the key of D:

I will put the suggested chord in front of the lick:

(A7) 9/6 0/4 7/4 0/3 7/4 0/2 7/3 0/1 6/3 0/2 7/4 0/3 (D) 4/4

Yes, you have to learn it by heart, a couple of notes at a time!

The last lick will use both hammer-ons and pull-offs.

I will put h and p between the actual notes.

(A7) 3/5 h 4/5 0/4 0/3 2/3 p 0/3 4/4 0/3 2/4 p 0/4 3/5 h 4/5 4/0

Don’t play faster than your present technical skills allow you to but of course you have already figured out that the last lick is supposed to be played fast, maybe lightning fast!

Peter Edvinsson invites you to download your free sheet music, guitar tabs, ebooks, guitar lessons and read his music blog at http://www.capotastomusic.com

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