18 Lessons
A quick guitar lesson of Jerry Reed's version of The Claw complete with TAB. Interactive, PDF TAB, and backing track available by download.
Guitar lesson - Tony Rice - Blackberry Blossom
Here's a guitar lesson with TAB of Doc Watson's Blue Railroad Train. It's great rhythmic practice and utilizes Merle Travis finger style guitar.
Free guitar lesson - Mirage - Tuned to CDGDAD
Guitar lessons - Tony Rice- Plastic Banana
Here's a quick flat picking guitar lesson in the key of D: Tony's version of The Likes of Me (originally by Jerry Reed).
Here's a lesson on Tony Rice's Church Street Blues with TAB (tablature), a great way to learn crosspicking bluegrass guitar.
Here are 8 Tony Rice style licks in C + some ideas of how you might transpose your G licks into C, and how you can use about half of the licks in any key! Enjoy!
7 Tony Rice style licks in G. This is great practice to see how he uses the modified minor pentatonic flat 5 scale to build tension and color his breaks.
Here's a lesson on three different bends you can play in every key on guitar.
Strengthen your fingers as they learn their way around 3 major scale shapes w/ 4 exercises each- because in order to take our playing to the next level we need the finger strength and dexterity.
The Crystal Gale Ready for the Times to Get Better song arranged in the style of Doc Watson or Chet Atkins
Here are 7 Tony Rice style licks in D, how to easily transcribe G licks into D, apply music theory to the licks and explain how you can use open strings to your advantage.
Here is a guitar lesson on four ways to improve bluegrass guitar rhythm strumming. I include TAB, examples, and backing tracks are available for download for guitar practice at home.
Doc Watson Walk On Boy Fingerstyle and flatpicking guitar lesson
Here's a lesson on a modified scale that Tony Rice used a lot- the minor pentatonic flat 5. The download includes practice tracks, TAB practice exercises, and a printable scale diagram.
Fingerstyle guitar arrangement of Steve Goodman's City of New Orleans, also covered by Arlo Guthrie, Willie Nelson, John Denver, Johnny Cash, Jimmy Buffett and more
