Acoustic Guitar Lessons: 2 Scales, Walking Bass, Hammer-Ons, and Pull-Offs
3h 7mBeginner2016-08-23
Authors
Bryan Sutton
Flatpick Guitarist
Course details
The bluegrass style is one of the most rewarding and technically demanding ways to play guitar. Learn how to play bluegrass guitar or improve your current flatpicking and fretting skills in this course—part 2 of the Bluegrass Guitar Lessons series with Grammy-winning flatpicker Bryan Sutton. Learn how to build strength and fingerboard awareness, and expand what you can do with the rhythm guitar with "walking bass" movement and advanced scales. Find out how to create more expressive sounds and play more efficiently with hammer-ons and pull-offs, and how to use a capo and slide.
Watch at your own pace; start and stop where and when you need. Everything that Bryan breaks down he puts back together in chapters 4 and 5, where he shows how to apply what you've learned to a selection of popular bluegrass tunes that are important for the repertoire of any bluegrass guitarist.
Learning objectives
Chord theory
The major and pentatonic scales
Walking bass technique
Reading tablature
Beginning hammer-ons and pull-offs
Beginning slide guitar
Using a capo
Playing traditional bluegrass tunes
Watch at your own pace; start and stop where and when you need. Everything that Bryan breaks down he puts back together in chapters 4 and 5, where he shows how to apply what you've learned to a selection of popular bluegrass tunes that are important for the repertoire of any bluegrass guitarist.
Learning objectives
Chord theory
The major and pentatonic scales
Walking bass technique
Reading tablature
Beginning hammer-ons and pull-offs
Beginning slide guitar
Using a capo
Playing traditional bluegrass tunes
Skills covered
Music LessonsAudio and MusicLimited Series
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
1. Scales and Chord Theory
- 02 - The major scales, part 1 - G and C
- 03 - The major scales, part 2 - D and A
- 04 - The major scales, part 3 - F and E
- 05 - The pentatonic scales, part 1 - G and C
- 06 - The pentatonic scales, part 2 - D and A
- 07 - The pentatonic scales, part 3 - F and E
- 08 - Chord theory - Part 1
- 09 - Chord theory - Part 2
2. Walking Bass and Reading Tablature
- 10 - Walking bass - Part 1
- 11 - Walking bass - Part 2
- 12 - Walking bass - Part 3
- 13 - Reading tablature
3. Hammer-Ons, Pull-Offs, and Slides
- 14 - Beginning hammer-ons
- 15 - Hammer-ons - Exercise 1
- 16 - Beginning pull-offs
- 17 - Pull-offs - Exercise 1
- 18 - Beginning slides
- 19 - Slides - Exercise 1
4. Basic Bluegrass Tunes 1
- 20 - Wildwood Flower (basic)
- 21 - Using a capo
- 22 - Big Sciota (basic) - Melody
- 23 - Big Sciota (basic) - Rhythm
- 24 - Daley's Reel (basic) - Part 1
- 25 - Daley's Reel (basic) - Part 2
- 26 - Blackberry Blossom (basic) - Melody
- 27 - Blackberry Blossom (basic) - Rhythm
- 28 - Blackberry Blossom (basic) - Performance 75 BPM
- 29 - Blackberry Blossom (basic) - Performance 85 BPM
5. Basic Bluegrass Tunes 2
- 30 - Red Haired Boy (basic) - Melody, part 1
- 31 - Red Haired Boy (basic) - Melody, part 2
- 32 - Red Haired Boy (basic) - Rhythm
- 33 - Jimmy Brown (basic)
- 34 - Kitchen Girl (basic)
- 35 - Shady Grove (basic) - Melody
- 36 - Shady Grove (basic) - Rhythm
Conclusion
- 37 - ArtistWorks and Next Steps